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School of Business

   Dr. Ajit Dayanandan

 
Associate Professor Economics
 
Economics Department
University of Northern British Columbia
3333 University Way
Prince George, BC
Canada  V2N 4Z9

PHD,  University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
M.Phil (Economics) - 1980
M.A. (Economics) - 1979
University of Kerala, Kariavattom, Trivandrum, India

Office:     Prince George Campus
                Administration Building, 3069

Tel:            (250) 960-6484
Fax:           (250) 960-5545
E-mail:      dayanana@unbc.ca
 

 Dr. Ajit Dayanandan 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Teaching and Research Interests
          Professional Positions   •   Courses Taught   •   Publications

  • Profit Warnings and Business Cycles
  • Microfinance and Livelihood finance
  • Cooperatives and Economic Development

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Professional Positions
          Teaching and Research   •   Courses Taught   •   Publications

July 1, 2010 to Current: Associate Professor of Economics, University of Northern British Columbia, Prince George, BC, Canada , V2N 4Z9.

August 2002 to June 2010 : Assistant Professor of Economics, University of Northern British Columbia, Prince George, BC, Canada , V2N 4Z9.

December 2001- July 2002, Assistant Professor, Economics and Finance Program, University College of Cariboo, Kamloops, BC, Canada

April 1984 – November 2001, Director, Research Department, Reserve Bank of India ,Mumbai, India

Aug 1981 – Mar 1984 Lecturer in Economics , Department of Collegiate Education, Government of Kerala, Trivandrum,  India.

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Courses Taught
          Teaching and Research   •   Professional Positions  •   Publications

ECON 100Microeconomics
ECON 101Macroeconomics
ECON 205Statistics for Social & Management Science
COMM 220Financial Management I
ECON 305Environmental Economics
ECON 308International Economic Relations
ECON 309Economics of Major World Regions
FSTY 310Forest Economics
ECON 310Intermediate Microeconomic Theory
ECON 311Intermediate Macroeconomic Theory
ECON 312Introduction to Econometrics
COMM 320Financial Management II
ECON 321Economics of Developing Countries
COMM 322International Financial Management
COMM 323Risk Insurance/ Financial Planning
ECON 331Forestry Economics
COMM 421Portfolio Theory and Management
ECON 425Trade and the Environment
COMM 429Finance: Advanced Topics
ECON 435Financial Economics & Quantitative Method
COMM 449International Trade
ECON 498Industrial Organization
COMM 498Technical Analysis
ECON 499Development Econometrics
ECON 499Econometrics
ECON 499Econometrics & Development Econometrics
ECON 499Financial Systems & Reforms
ECON 608Managerial Economics
COMM 620Corporate Finance
ECON 625Trade and the Environment
ECON 635Financial Economics & Quantitative Method
COMM 662Research Methodology
ECON 698 Microeconometrics
INTS 699Economics of Developing Countries
INTS 700 Research Methods
ECON 712Applied Econometrics
COMM 725Financial Management

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Publications
           Teaching and Research   •   Professional Positions  •  Courses Taught

                                                                                    
Journal Articles
           Conference Proceedings   •   Book Chapters  

2010

Dayanandan, A. and Donker, H.  (2010). Business Cycles and Profit Warnings. Finance Review.  
 
Dadhich, C.D. and Dayanandan, A.  (2010). What Ails Indian Cooperatives: Issues and Prospects. Economic and Political Weekly.  (Under Review).
 
Dayanandan, A. and Donker, H.  (2010). The Impact of Crude Oil Prices on Accounting Returns of Oil and Gas Firms: An Empirical Analysis of Oil and Gas Firms in North America – 1990-2008. International Review of Financial Analysis.(Under Review).

2009

Dayanandan, A. (2009). Microfinance and Social Capital: A Study of Microfinance Institutions in Andhra Pradesh, India- 2009.  International Journal of Social Enquiry.  Paper submitted to special issue on Social Capital. (Under Review).
 
Dayanandan, A. (2009). Cost Structure and Economies of Scale and Scope in Microfinance Industry in India – 2007-08. Indian Journal of Social Development, 9(2), 117-129.
 
Dayanandan, A. (2009). Convergence in Human Development Levels Across Regions: An Empirical Investigation- 1975-2005.  Indian Economic Journal , 57, 2, pp.143-154.

Tian, X., Wang, B., & Dayanandan, A. (2008). The Impact of Economic Globalization on Income Distribution: Empirical Evidence in China. Economics Bulletin, 4(35), 1-8. Retrieved from EconLit database. More Information:  Visit  Econlit or UNBC Library.

2008

Dayanandan, A. (2008). Assessing Stability of Demand for Money in India – Old and New Monetary Aggregates: 1996-2005. The Indian Journal of Economics, 352, July, pp.1-17.

2006

Wang, B. and Dayanandan, A. (2006).  The Impact on Globalization on Income Inequality: Some Empirical Evidence from Canada and India. The ICFAI Journal of Applied Economics, 5, 6, pp-716.

Wang, B., & Dayanandan, A. (2006). Unit Root Tests of Canadian Poverty Measures. Economics Bulletin, 9(2), 1-7. Retrieved from EconLit database.  More Information:  Visit  Econlit or UNBC Library.

2005

Dayanandan, A., & Ralhan, M. (2005). Price Index Convergence Among Provinces and Cities of Canada: 1978 - 2001. Department of Economics, University of Victoria, 15 pages. Retrieved from EconLit database.  More Information:  Visit  Econlit or UNBC Library.

Ralhan, M., & Dayanandan, A. (2005). Convergence of Income Among Provinces in Canada - An Application of GMM Estimation. Department of Economics, University of Victoria, 25 pages. Retrieved from EconLit database.  More Information:  Visit  Econlit or UNBC Library.
 
1999

Dayanandan, A. (1999). Credit Demand and Supply and the Indian Economy: 1970-92. Journal of Quantitative Economics, 15, 29-38.
 
1997

Dayanandan, A. (1997).  Para Banking in India – Issues. Economic and Political Weekly, 32, 2677-86.  More Information:  Visit  JSTOR
 
Bangar, R.D. & Dayanandan, A. (1997).  Banking Development in India- Performance and Issues.  RBI Occasional Papers - Special Issue, 18, 303-50.
 
Jadhav, N.D. & Dayanandan, A. (1997).  The Role of Banks in Economic Development of India. Prajnan, 25, 309-21.
 
Singh, T.  & Dayanandan, A. (1997).  Demand for Money in India: Some New Tests on an Old Topic. Indian Journal of Applied Economics, 6, 59-74.
 
1995

Singh, T. & Dayanandan, A. (1995).  Production Functions in the Manufacturing Industries - A Disaggregated Analysis: 1974-90. Reserve Bank of India Occasional Papers, 16, 125-155.

Singh, T. & Dayanandan, A. (1995).  Production Functions in Indian Industries: 1960-90.  Indian Journal of Applied Economics, 4,  23-36.

1993

Dayanandan, A. (1993).  Capacity Utilisation in Indian Industries: 1960 to 1990. Reserve Bank of India Occasional Papers, 14, 1-20.
 
1992

Dayanandan, A. (1992).   The Determinants of Money Multiplier in India: 1960-61 to 1989-90.  Prajnan, 21, 287-307.
 
Dayanandan, A. (1992).   Determinants of Currency Demand in India: 1960-61 to 1989-90.  International Journal of Development Banking, 10, 59-68.
 
1986

Singh, T. & Dayanandan, A. (1986).  India's External Debt: Problems, Policy Issues and Prospects. The Indian Journal of Economics, 66,361-80.
 
1984

Nair, P.R.Gopinathan  & Dayanandan, A. (1984).  Parallel Colleges in Kerala: Enrolment, Costs and Employment. Economic and Political Weekly, 19, 1840-47. 

 

Conference Proceedings
           Journal Articles   •   Book Chapters   
 
Dayanandan, A. (2008). “Micro-credit and Repayment Rates:  A Case Study Kudumbashree Micro-enterprise Programme in Kerala, India-2006”, Paper presented at the  Annual Conference on Money and Finance in the Indian Economy at Indira Gandhi Institute for Development Research, Mumbai , India, January 18,19, 2008.  More Information:  Visit  IGIDR.
 
Dayanandan, A. (2007) “Microfinance and Multinational Banks: Doing Good and Looking Good”, Paper presented at the Hallsworth International Conference on Multi-Cultural, Multi-Ethnic and Cross-Country Experiences of Corporate Social Responsibility at University of Manchester, Manchester, U.K., December 6-7, 2007.
 
Dayanandan, A. (2006) “The Impact of Economic Openness and Growth on Poverty: Canadian Experience (1981-2003)”, Paper presented at International Conference on Policy Modeling, Hong Kong, China, June 28-30, 2006.

Dayanandan, A. (2004) “The Impact of Economic Growth and Openness on Income Inequality: Canadian Empirical Evidence”, Co-authored with B. Wang. Paper presented at  Statistics Canada’s Economic Conference 2005, at Ottawa, Canada, May 9-10, 2005.

Dayanandan, A. (2003) “Economic Convergence among Provinces in Canada: Some New tests on an old Topic”, Paper presented at the 37th Pacific Northwest Regional Economic Conference at Spokane, Washington, May 21-23, 2003.

Dayanandan, A. (2002) “Prince Index convergence among Provinces and Cities Across Canada: 1978-2001”. Paper presented at the 36th Annual Pacific Northwest Regional Economic Conference ”Challenges to Economic Security” at Portland, Oregon, U.S.,  May 15-17,2002.

Dayanandan, A. (2001) “External Indebtedness of Sub-Saharan Africa, Capital Flows and the HIPC Imitative”,  Paper presented at Conference of the Indian Economic Association, Vellore, Tamil Nadu, India, December 29-31, 2001. Co-authored with Sangita Mishra.
 
Dayanandan, A. (1998) “Employment and Productivity of Labour in Indian Banking Industry”, Paper Presented at 89th Indian Society of Labour Economics held at Trivandrum, Kerala, India during January 2-4, 1998.
 
Dayanandan, A. (1997) “The Role and Performance of Private Sector Banks in India - 1991-92 to 1996-97”, Paper presented at National Seminar on ‘Banking and Finance Under Globalisation' organised by Centre for Indian Development Studies, Chandigarh, India on December 17, 1997

Dayanandan, A. (1995) “Trade Credit and Demand for Money in Private Corporate Sector in India”, Paper presented at the PhD Conference in Economics and Business, Perth, Australia, November 8-10, 1995. 

 

Book Chapters
           Journal Articles   •   Conference Proceedings  
 
Raman, Ravi & Dayanandan, A. (2010) 'Commercial Microfinance in India: Loan Angels or Loan Sharks.' In: Raman, Ravi and Lipschutz, Ronnie D., (eds.), Corporate Social Responsibility: Comparative Critiques, New York: Palgrave Macmillan, pp.165-181.  More Information:  Visit  Macmillan.
 
Wang, B. & Dayanandan, A. (2009) 'The Prospect of the Euro-Zone Development and the Role of Euro in the World Economy.' In: Peng, Gang and Guan, Xueling  (eds.), Steady Enlargement, Active Integration, and Balanced Development: A Study on Economic Integration of the EU and Its New Members, Renmin University Press.
 
Mohanthy, D., Swamy, B.N.A., & Dayanandan, A. (1999) 'Short-Term and Volatile Capital Flows.'    In Vasudevan, A (Ed.), External Debt Management: Issues, Lessons and Preventive Measures, Bombay, Reserve Bank of India, April 1999.  More Information:  Visit  Reserve Bank of India.
 
Dayanandan, A. (1997) 'The Role and Financing of Small-Scale Industries in India.'   In Hundekar, S.G., Das, V.B.M. and Banerjee, G.D.(ed.), Challenges Before the Small-Scale Industries, Allahabad: Horizon Publishers.
  
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