Srinivas Raghavendra joined the department in January 2005.

Dr. Raghavendra received his PhD degree from Jawaharalal Nehru University, New Delhi in 2002 and his doctoral dissertation was in the area of Keynesian macro dynamics. Apart from macroeconomic theory, his other research areas include Computable Economics, Complex Systems and Computational Finance.

Dr. Raghavendra is editor of the Department of Economics Working Papers Series and also Co-ordinator of the Seminar Series.

Dr. Raghavendra is currently involved in setting up a Virtual Stock Market in NUI, Galway

Selected Publications:

"A Framework for Testing Algorithmic Trading Strategies." Forthcoming in Automation, Computers, Electronics and Mechtronics O Annals of the University of Craiova, 2009 (with Daniel Parshiev and V. Laurentiu).

"Stocks Scanner Evaluator for Stocks or Options." Forthcoming in IEEE Series in Computational Intelligence and Financial Engineering, 2009 (with Daniel Parshiev and V. Laurentiu).

"Algorithmic Trading on an Artificial Stock Market." Forthcoming in Studies in Computational Intelligence, Springer-Verlag, 2008 (with Daniel Parshiev and V. Laurantieu).

"Decomposition Methods for Analyzing Intra-regional and Inter-regional income distribution. In Peter Flaschel and Michael Landesmann (edited) Mathematical Economics and Dynamics in Capitalism in Honour of Richard Goodwin, London: Routledge, 2008.

Trade Union MOvement: CSR, Civil Society and Cross Transnational Labor Relations in the Agriculture Industry," 2007. Forthcoming in the Indian Journal of Labor Economics (with Terrence McDonough and Gonzalez Perez).

"An Empirical Investigation of Networks in the Blogosphere." In Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM, 2007) (with Uldis Bojars, Andreas Harth and Sheila Kinsella).

"Market Polarization in Presence of Individual Choice Volatility. In Advanced in Artificial Economics: The Economy as a Complex Dynamic System, ed. C. Brunn, 2006. Berlin: Sprinter (with Sitabhra Sinha).

"Limits to Investment Exhilarationism." In Zeirschrift fur Nationalokonomie, 2006, Vol. 87(3): 257-280.

"Emergence of two-phase behaviour in markets through interaction and learning in agents with bounded rationality." In Practical Fruits of Econophysics, ed., H. Takayasu, 2004, Tokyo: Springer (with Sitabhra Sinha).

"Effective Demand and Income Distribution: A Review." In Review of Development and Change, 2004, Vol. 3(2).

"Phase Transition and Pattern Formation in a Model of Collective Choice Dynamisms," Santa Fe Institute Working Paper, 2004, No. 04-09-028.

"Hollywood Blockbusters and Long-tailed Distributions: An Empirical Study of the Popularity of Movies," European Physical Journal B, 2004, Vol. 42 (with Sitabhra Sinha).