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Dr.Ulaganathan Sankar
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Bachelor of Arts (Economics), University of Madras,
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Master of Arts (Economics), Annamalai University,
1957. |
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Ph.D. in Economics (Econometrics), University of Wisconsin, Madison,USA, 1967. |
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Research Interests
Environmental Economics, Trade and Environment, Applied
Econometrics, Economics of Regulation |
Curriculum
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Current Research
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Farm Management
Study on the Problems of Increasing Groundnut Production in
North and South Arcot Districts of Tamil Nadu (with G.
Mythili),Manager of Publications, Government of India, 1987.
Uncertainty and Farm Production Decisions (with G.Mythili),
Himalaya, Mumbai, 1991.
Public Sector Pricing - Theory and Applications, by Indian
Economic Association Trust for Research and Development, New
Delhi, 1992.
Methodology of Applied Economic Research, (eds. U.Sankar and
T.Lakshmanasamy), Sterling Publishers, New Delhi, 1993.
Input-Output Transactions Tables (Agriculture and
Manufacturing Sectors), Tamil Nadu, 1982, Department of
Econometrics, University of Madras, 1995.
Controlling Pollution: Incentives and Regulations, with
S.Mehta and S.Mundle, Sage Publications, Delhi, 1997.
Economic Instruments for Environment Sustainability, with
O.P.Mathur, NIPFP and MSE,1998.
Accelerating Growth Through Globalisation of Indian
Agriculture, K.P.Kalirajan. G.Mythili and U.Sankar (eds),
Macmillan, India, New Delhi, 2001.
Environmental Economics, Reader in Economics, Oxford
University Press, Delhi, 2000. Oxford India Paperback, 2001,
eighth impression 2007.
Economic Analysis of Environmental Problems in Tanneries and
Textile Bleaching and Dyeing Industries, Allied Publishers,
Delhi, 2000.
Economic Reforms and the Liberalization of the Indian
Economy, edited by K.P.Kalirajan and U. Sankar, Edward
Elgar, Cheltenham, UK, 2003.
The Economics of India’s Space Programme: An Exploratory
Analysis, Oxford University Press, 2007.
Trade and Environment: A Study of India’s Leather Exports,
Oxford University Press, 2006.
Eco-taxes on Polluting Inputs and Outputs, with R.J.Chelliah,
P.P.Appasamy and R.Pandey Academic Foundation, New Delhi,
2007.
Perspectives on Development and Public Finance, edited by
D.K.Srivastava and U.Sankar, Sage Publications, 2011. |
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Projects Undertaken |
Farm Management
Study on the Problems of Increasing Groundnut Production in
North and South Districts of Tamil Nadu, 1981 - 84, Ministry
of Agriculture, Government of India.
Optimum Rate Structures for Public Enterprises under UGC
Support for Major Research Project in Social Sciences 1982 -
1985.
Econometric Formulation of Farm Household Decision Making
under Uncertainty, sponsored by ICSSR, December 1986 -
August 1988.
Input-Output Model Project for Tamil Nadu, Sponsored by
Planning and Development Department, Government of Tamil
Nadu, February 1987.
Telecom tariff (BICP) Project, Interim Report April 1991.
Incentives and Regulation for Pollution Abatement with an
Application to Waste Water Treatment (with S.Mehta and
S.Mundle), National Institute of Public Finance and Policy,
New Delhi, 1993, sponsored by WHO.
Modelling Sales Tax Revenue Behaviour in Tamil Nadu,
sponsored by Finance Department, Government of Tamil Nadu,
1993 - 1994.
Fiscal Reforms for Sustainable Development jointly with
NIPFP, funded by World Resources Institute, 1995 - 1997.
Economic Analysis of Environmental Damages by Tanneries and
Textile Dyeing Industries and Suggestions for Policy Action
1996 - , funded by UNDP - Project LARGE.
Accelerating Growth Through Globalisation of Indian
Agriculture, a joint project with the Australian National
University, 1996-1999.
Industrial Support Policy and Abatement of Pollution by
Industrial Agglomerations in Karnataka and Tamil Nadu funded
by Netherlands Embassy 1997 - 1998.
Environmental Economics Component of the World Bank -
Ministry of Environment and Forests, National Project
Coordinator, 1997 - 2003.
A Techno-Economic Analysis of Indian Space Programme, Indian
Space Research Organisation, 2000 – 2003.
Trade and Environment: Environmental Requirements and
India’s Exports of Leather and Leather Products, Centre of
Excellence in Environmental Economics at Madras School of
Economics, funded by Ministry of Environment and Forests,
2002-2005.
Specific Trade Obligations in Multilateral Environmental
Agreements and the WTO Rules, funded by the Ministry of
Commerce and Industry, Government of India, 2005
Trade and Environment, Ministry of Environment and Forests,
Government of India, 2006-
Facilitator Interministerial Working Group on Issues
relating to Finance, Taxation, Trade, Planning, Labour,
Statistics and Science and Technology for Rio+20 UN
Conference on Green Economy in June 2012.
Several Projects sponsored by AT and T, UW Alumni
Foundation; UWM Graduate School, Ford Foundation and NSF
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Selected Papers |
Role in Fiscal
Policy in Environmental Management presented in GIZ-TERI
Special Event on Environmental Fiscal Reform, Delhi
Sustainable Summit, 2 February 2011
Climate Change Mitigation Policies presented in Global
Environmental Strategies, Japan and TERI Policy Dialogue on
Post Cancun Climate Change Action, 1 February, 2011
Sustainable Development of Agriculture, Keynote Address, UGC
sponsored National Seminar on Inclusive Growth in
Agriculture, Department of Economics, Osmania University.
Published in Indian Economic Review, IIPM Journal, June
2011.
Environmentally Sound Technologies for Sustainable
Development of India, Keynote Address at the International
Conference on Issues in Public Policy for Sustainable
Development, Indira Gandhi National Open University, New
Delhi 26, March 2008, in Raj Kumar Sen (ed), Environment and
Sustainable Development, Deep & Deep Publications, Delhi,
2011
India’s Low Carbon Inclusive Growth Strategy, Presented at
SANDEE Conference on Environment and Development, Kathmandu,
Nepal 6-7 December 2010. MSE working Paper 56/2010.
A Tribute to Professor Arnold Zellner, Journal of
Quantitative Economics, Vol 8, No 2, July 2010,
Global Public Goods: Provision Production and Benefits, in
M.Govinda Rao and Mihir Rakshit (eds.) Public Economics:
Theory and Policy, Sage, Publications, New Delhi, 2010
Policy Instruments for Achieving Low Carbon and High
Economic Growth in India, presented at the Round Table on
Policies for Sustainable Development, National Institute of
Public Finance and Policy, New Delhi, 16 December 2009.
Trade Measures in Climate Policies and their Consistency
with WTO and UNFCCC, Indian Economic Journal,
October-December, 2009
The global Trading Regime and Sustainable Development of
India and China, in N.S.Siddharthan and K.Narayanan (eds)
Indian and Chinese Enterprises, Routledge
London, 2009.
Ecology, Environment and Sustainable Development in Indian
Federalism, MSE Working Paper 47, 2009
Data Requirements and Statistical Challenges for Designing
Climate Friendly Energy Policies in Multilateral Framework,
Keynote Address delivered at the National Seminar on Climate
Change: Data Requirement and Availability, organized by
Central Statistical Organization, Ministry of Statistics and
Programme Implementation, Government of India and Institute
for Social and Economic Change, Bangalore, April 16-17,
2009. MSE Working Paper No 45, 2009.
Incentives for Conservation and Sustainable Use of
Biodiversity in India, Dr Bisalaiah Endowment Lecture,
University of Mysore, 19, March 2009.
The State of Environment and Environment Quality in India,
Dr Ambirajan Endowment Lecture, 18 March 2009.
Multidisciplinary Research: Challenges and Opportunities,
VKRV Centenary Celebrations, Institute of Social and
Economic Change, Bangalore, July 2008, in Social Science
Research in India, Institutions and Structure, edited by
M.V.Nadkarni and R.S.Deshpande, ISEC and Academic
Foundation, 2011.
On the Regulation of Public Utilities Facing Competitive
Fringe, in V.Pandit and K.R.Shanmugam (eds), Theory,
Measurement and Policy Evolving Themes in Quantitative
Economics, Academic Foundation, New Delhi, 20.08
Compendium on Convention on Biological Diversity (with
P.S.Mehta),
http://www.mse.ac.in/Trade/Publication.asp.
Role of Economic Instruments in Multilateral Environmental
Agreements with Specific Trade Obligations, http://www.mse.ac.in/Trade/Publication.asp
Global Public Goods, MSE Working Paper No.28, 2008.
The Rupee goes Farther in Space in L.K. Sharma (ed),
Innovative India Rises, Medialand, London.
The Role of Economics Instruments in Prevention and Control
of Industrial Pollution in India: Scope, Design and
Implementation, in M.S.Bhatt, Shahid Ashraf and Asheref
Illiyan (Eds), Problems and Prospects of Environment Policy
India Perspective, Aakar Books, New Delhi 2008.
Organizational systems, commercialization and cost-benefit
analysis of Indian Space Programme with K.R.Sridhara Murthi
and H.N. Madhusudhan, Special Section: Indian Space
Programme, Current Science, Vol. 93, No.12, 25 December
2007.
Trade Liberalization and Environmental Protection –
Responses of Leather Industry in Brazil, China and India,
Economic and Political Weekly, VolXLI, No.24, June 17, 2006.
Diversity in Environmental Standards and Competitiveness: A
Temporal and Cross-Country Analysis of Global Leather
Industry Supply Chain (with Mamatha Rao, N. Karthikeyan and
B. Preethi) presented at the Third World Congress of
Environmental and Resource Economists at Kyoto, Japan, July
3-7, 2006.
Financial and Economic Sustainability: Public-Private
Partnership in Christine Sijbesma and Meine Pieter van Dijk
(eds.), Water and Sanitation: Institutional Changes in
India, IDPAD-Manohar, New Delhi, 2006.
Policy Options for Prevention and Control of Industrial
Pollution in India in Suresh Tendulkar, Arup Mitra, K.
Narayanan, and Deb Kusum Das (eds.), Industrialization in a
Reforming Economy, Academic Foundation, New Delhi 2005.
Pricing Coal Ash for Environmental Protection with Raja
Chelliah and Rita Pandey, The Journal of Energy and
Development, Vol.30, No.2 (2005).
Externalities in Amaresh Bagchi (ed.) Readings in Public
Finance, Oxford University Press, New Delhi, 2005.
Economic Liberalization, Environmental Policy in India and
Globalization, in C. Tisdell and R.K. Sen. (eds.) Economic
Globalization, Edward Elgar, 2004.
Pollution Control in Tanneries, in G. Kadekodi (ed.)
Environmental Economics in Practice in India, Oxford
University Press, 2004.
Data Base and Methods for the Design of Economic Instruments
for Industrial Pollution Control in India, in A.K.Ghosh, J.K.
Ghosh and Barun Mukhopadhyay (eds.), Sustainable
Development, Ecological, Economic, Sociocultural and
Statistical Aspects, Indian Statistical Institute, Calcutta,
2004.
Design of Fiscal Instruments for Pollution Control in
M.Govinda Rao (ed.), Development, Poverty, and Fiscal Policy
- Decentralisation of Institutions, Oxford University Press,
Delhi, 2002.
Asymmetric Information and Counteracting Institutions,
Proceedings of the Indian Economic Association Conference,
2002.
Landmarks in the Development of Economics in the Twentieth
Century, Millennium Lecture, Gulburga University, 2000, in
M.V. Nadkarni (ed.) Landmarks in Development of Social
Sciences, Allied Publishers, 2002.
Tariff Setting in the Telecom Sector in Regulation in
Infrastructure Services - Progress and the Way Forward, Tata
Energy Research Institute, 2001.
Agriculture in India's economic reform program with K.P.
Kalirajan, Journal of Asian Economics, 12(2001).
Agricultural Price Policy in Indian Economy Agenda for the
21st Century, Essays in honour of P.R. Brahmananda edited by
Raj Kumar Sen and Biswajit Chatterjee, Deep & Deep, Delhi,
2001.
Power Sector: Present Status and Some Policy Issues in IEA
Trust Seminar Volume, Development Experiences in the Indian
Economy: Interstate Perspectives, edited by P.R. Brahmananda
and V.R.Panchamukhi, Bookwell, New Delhi, 2001.
Common Effluent Treatment Plants: An Institutional
Arrangement for Pollution Control in Small Scale Tanneries
in India presented at the Second International Conference on
Environment and Development, Stockholm, September 2000.
Laws and Institutions Relating to Environmental Protection
in India, presented at the conference on The Role of Law and
Legal Institution in Asian Economic Development, Erasmus
University, Rotterdam, Netherlands, November 1-4, 1998. MSE
Occasional Paper No.2, 1999.
India Case Study (Team Leader) in Theresa Bradley (ed.)
Public Finance Restructuring for Sustainable Development in
Emerging Market Economies, World Resources Institute,
Washington D C, 1998.
Standards and Incentive Regime for Prevention and Control of
Pollution in India, Keynote Address delivered at the
Workshop on Economics of the Environment at Jadavpur
University, Calcutta, 24th February 1997. In G. Gupta and J.
Roy (eds.), Environmental Economics in India, Allied
Publishers, 1999.
Econometric Application in Agricultural Economics in Applied
Econometrics (ed., K.L.Krishna), Oxford University Press,
1997, Paperback 1998
Environmental Costs of Industrial Water Pollution, TERI
Energy Environment Monitor, Vol.12, No.1, March 1996.
On the Allocation of Joint and Common Costs,Festschrift for
Kirit Parikh, Poverty, Environment and Development, (eds)
N.S.S. Narayana and A.Sen, Interline Publishers, Bangalore,
1996.
Pricing Policies in Indian Industry (ed.,Dilip Mookherjee),
Oxford University Press, 1995, Paperback 1996.
Pricing Reforms in Public Enterprises, The Journal of
Institute of Public Enterprise, Vol.17 (3 & 4), 1994,
pp.97-109.
On the Regulation of Public Utilities Facing Competitive
Fringe, Presidential Address delivered at the 30th Annual
Conference of the Indian Econometric Society at University
of Mysore, Mysore, May 1, 1994. Published as monograph by
the Indian Economic Association Trust for Research and
Development, New Delhi. Journal of Quantitative Economics,
Vol.10, No.2, July 1994, pp.253-272.
Economic Reforms in Power and Telecommunication Sectors, in
A.V.Bhuleshkar (ed.), Indian Economy Under Liberalised
system - Issues and Problems, Himalaya, 1994.
Telecom Policy: The First Steps, The Economic Times, May 30,
1994.
Market Failures and Government Failures: Lessons for India's
Development, Gandhian Perspectives, Spring 1993.
Formulation and Verification of Hypotheses in Economics, in
Methodology of Applied Economic Research (eds.U.Sankar and
T.Lakshmanasamy), Sterling Publishers, 1993.
Fiscal Deficit and Macro-economic Implications, in
V.R.Panchamukhi (ed) Fiscal Management of the Indian
Economy, IEA Trust for Research and Development, New Delhi,
1992.
Economic and Social Goals in Electricity Supply in Tamil
Nadu (with R.Hema) in S.Subramaniam (ed.) Development
Themes, Oxford University Press, 1992.
Demand Side Management: Scope and issues in Electricity,
Productivity, Jan - March, 1992.
Nehru's Development Strategy in Legacy of Nehru, Jawaharlal
Nehru Centenary Publication, University of Madras, December
1991.
Industrial Policy for 1990's, Symposium on Eighth Five Year
Plan, Productivity, April- June 1990.
Pricing Policy for Multiproduct Public Monopolies,
Productivity, April - June 1989.
Nehru's contributions to Social Democracy and Planning in
A.V.Bhuleshkar (ed.) Fifth Jawaharlal Nehru Memorial
Volume,Indian Economy in World Setting, Himalaya, 1988.
Industrial Policy of India: J.S.Uppal (ed.)Economic Problems
of India, Tata-Mc Graw Hill, 1975, Second Edition, 1978,
Third Edition 1984, Fourth Edition 1994.
The Measurement of Firm Size (with Sol.Shalit), Review of
Economics and Statistics, Vol.59, August 1977.
Depreciation, Tax Policy and Firm Behaviour Under Regulatory
Constraint, Southern Economic Journal, Vol.44, July 1977.
A Utility Function for Wealth for A Risk Averter, Journal of
Economic Theory, December 1973.
Investment Behaviour in the U.S.Telephone Industry
1949-1968, Bell Journal of Economics and Management Science,
Vol.4 Autumn, 1973.
Investment and Economies of Scale in Electricity Generation,
Proceedings of the American Statistical Association,
Business and Economics Statistics Section, 1972.
Investment Behaviour in the U.S.Electric Utility Industry
1949-68, Bell Journal of Economics and Management Science,
vol.3, Autumn, 1972.
On Errors in the Variables (with Arnold Zellner), Report
6703, Centre, for Mathematical Studies in Business and
Economics, University of Chicago. Results incorporated in
Chapter 5 in A.Zellner, An Introduction to Bayesian
Inference in Econometrics, Wiley, 1971. Also cited in
H.Theil, Principles of Econometrics, Wiley, 1971.Also in G.
Mythili and Hema (2005).Topics in Applied Economics, Tools,
Issues and Institutions, Festschrift for Prof. U. Sankar,
Academic Foundation, New Delhi 2005.
Elasticities of Substitution and Returns to Scale in Indian
Manufacturing Industries, International Economic Review,
Vol.II, October 1970.
Bayesian Estimation of CES Production Function (with
V.K.Chetty), Review of Economic Studies, vol.36, July 1969.
Levels of Living in Rural Areas, Indian Journal of
Agricultural Economics, vol.18, January,1963.
Primary Land Mortgage Banks: A Study of the Working of
Primary Land Mortgage Banks in South Arcot District in
Madras, All India Cooperative Review, 1962. |
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