BISWA SWARUP MISRA

Professional Economist with significant contribution to economic policy making through research and advisory. Blend of exposure to academics and industry. Dean of Xavier Institute of Management, Bhubaneswar for a second term with prior stints as Economist in the Reserve Bank of India for 8 years and Chief Economist of Bank of India and Bank of Baroda.

Professional Contribution




• Member of ‘Working Group on Public Sector’s Draft of Private Savings’, Planning Commission, Government of India for the 12th Five Year Plan (2011).
• Member of ‘Expert Group for Development of a Methodology for Computation of an Index for Infrastructure Development at the all India level and for States’, Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation, Government of India (2013).
• Member of ‘Working Group to Study Interest Subvention’, Government of Orissa (2013 and 2014)
• Resource Person for ‘Committee on Ways and Means Advances’, Reserve Bank of India (2005) and Reserve Bank’s forecast of fiscal parameters for the Twelfth Finance Commission.
• Macroeconomic Modelling and Forecasting while working in Reserve Bank of India, Bank of India and Bank of Baroda.
• Editorial Board Member of ‘Journal of Management and Financial Sciences’, Warsaw School of Economics, Poland since 2011.
• Member of the Expert Committee for implementation of Chief Minister's Award for Excellence and Innovation in Government and Public Service Delivery (2014 and 2015).
• Four Research Monographs and more than 20 research Papers in Referred Journals
• Writings on contemporary economic issues in Opinion and Editorial pages of Business Line and Financial Express.




Consultancy




1. Ramification of Debt Waivers in Odisha, Sponsored by NABARD along with Prof. Amar KJR Nayak and Prof. S.Peppin

2. ‘Assessing the impact of regulated interest rates from the perspective of institutional viability of the Credit Cooperative System’ sponsored by NABARD and GIZ, New Delhi. Duration October 2012-September 2013.

3. Enterprise Social Commitment Plan of Mideast Integrated Steels Ltd.(MISL), July 2014- March 2015

Life member, Indian Econometric Society, Indian Economic Association, Indian Association for Research in National Income and Wealth, and Orissa Economic Association

 Research Monographs

1. Development and Economic Growth in India: Drivers for Indian States, Routledge, UK, December 2022

https://www.routledge.com/Development-and-Economic-Growth-in-India-Drivers-for-Indian-States/Misra/p/book/9781032243887

2. Revisiting Regional Growth Dynamics in India in the Post-Economic Reform Period, Palgrave Macmillan, UK, October, 2013 http://www.palgraveconnect.com/pc/doifinder/10.1057/9781137303684

3. Credit Cooperatives in India-Past, Present and Future, Routledge, UK, March 2010

http://www.routledgeeconomics.com/books/Credit-Cooperatives-in-India- isbn9780415566995

4. Regional Growth Dynamics in India in the Post-Economic Reform Period, Palgrave Macmillan, UK, April 2007 http://www.palgrave.com/products/Catalogue.aspx?is=0230004911

5. Reflections on Contemporary Economic Issues, Xavier University Press, Xavier University, Bhubaneswar, October 2013. This Book is a collection of 78 Articles published in Business Line and Financial Express during 2011-2013

Research Papers: Published in Journals (Referred)

1. Sources of divergence in income in Indian States, 2001-2015. Development Policy Review, coauthored with (Nazlioglu, S. and Kucukkaplan, I.). Accepted Author Manuscript. https://doi.org/10.1111/dpr.12594

2. Impact of Re-election on Development in India- A Comparative Analysis of Leading and Lagging States, Indian Growth and Development Review, Emerald Publishing, July 2021, DOI 10.1108/IGDR-11-2020-0156

3. Income Convergence in Indian Districts: New Evidence from Panel Stationarity Test with Finite Time Dimension. Journal of International Development coauthored with (Kar, M., Nazlioglu, S., and Karul, C.) Vol. 32, No. 8, 2020 https://doi.org/10.1002/jid.3502 

4. Determinants of Total Factor Productivity in Indian States -Indian Growth and Development Review, Emerald Publishing, Vol. 13, No. 1, 2020 DOI 10.1108/IGDR-01-2019-0008

5. Impact of Economic and Social Infrastructure on Regional Inequality - Evidence from Indian States’ Australasian Journal of Regional Studies, Vol. 25, No.1, 2019

6. Causality between Electricity Consumption and Output: Evidence from Indian States during 1987-2010, The Empirical Economics Letters, Vo. 18, No.1, Jan 2019

7. Which Infrastructure Matters More for Growth-Economic or Social? Evidence from Indian States during 2001-2010, Review of Urban & Regional Development Studies, Applied Regional Science Conference (ARSC) and Wiley Publishing Asia Pty Ltd, Vol, 27, No.3, November 2015 

8. An Assessment of Impact of Crop Loan Delivery on Credit Cooperatives, The Microfinance Review, Journal of the Centre for Microfinance Research, Bankers Institute for Rural Development, India, Vol. VII, No.1 Jan-June 2015

9. The Role of FIIs in the Indian Stock Market, Vilakshan, Vol. 9, Issue 1, March 2012

10. Changing Dimension of India’s Growth Process: A State Level Analysis, Journal of Income and Wealth, Indian Association for Research on National Income and Wealth, Volume 32, No.2, July 2010

11.  ‘What Ails Primary Credit Cooperatives in India - A State Level Analysis’, Comparative Economic Studies Vol. 51 No.3, September 2009

12. ‘Stock Returns-Inflation Relation in India, 1980-2004’, Applied Econometrics and International Development (AEID). Co-authored with Prof. K.R.Shanmugam, Madras School of Economics. Vol 9-1, January -June 2009

13.  ‘Performance of Cooperatives in India - An Empirical Analysis’, Indian Economic Journal, Volume 53, No.4, March 2009

14.  ‘Public Expenditure on Health and Health Outcomes: Experience of the Indian States’, Vilakshan, Vol. IV, No. 2, September 2007. Co- authored with Shri Akshya K. Panda, Director, Planning Commission of India

15. ‘Sustainability of Federal Finances in India: An Application of Non stationary Panel Methods’. Journal of Quantitative Economics, New Series Volume 4, No.1, January 2006. Co authored with Deba Prasad Rath, Director, Reserve Bank of India.

16. ‘The Performance of Regional Rural Banks (RRBs) in India: Has Past Anything to Suggest for Future?’, Occasional Papers, Reserve Bank of India, Vol. 25, No. 1, 2 and 3, Summer, Monsoon and Winter 2006 

17. ‘A Structural Approach to the Bank Lending Channel of Monetary Policy: Evidence from India’, Indian Economic Journal, Vol.53, No.1 April-June 2005. Co-authored with Rajiv Ranjan, Director, Reserve Bank of India

18. ‘Are Indian States Converging in the Post-reform period?: An Empirical Inquiry’, Journal of Quantitative Economics, New Series Volume 3, No.1, January 2005

19. ‘Allocative Efficiency of Indian Banking System in the Post-reform Period: A State Level Analysis’ - Occasional Papers, Reserve Bank of India, Vol.24, No.3, 2005 

20. ‘Analytics of Agricultural Growth in Orissa’, Prajnan, Journal of the National Institute of Bank Management (NIBM), Pune, India. (Vol. XXXIII No.2 July-September 2004). Co-authored with Satyananda Sahoo, Asst. Advisor, Reserve Bank of India 

21. ‘Analytics of Credit and Output Nexus in India’, Occasional Papers, Reserve Bank of India, Vol.24, Nos. 1&2, Summer and Monsoon 2003

Chapters in Edited Books

1. Why Government Should Prioratise Spending on Health?: Exploring the Health Expenditure, Health Outcome and Output Relationship in Indian States, Centre- State Relations in Indian Fiscal Context Editors C.H. Hanumantha Rao, R. Radhakrishna, S. Galab and N. Sreedevi, academic foundation in association with Centre for Economic and Social Studies (CESS), Hyderabad, 2015 

2. India’s Growth performance2000-2012: Region Based Perspective in Regional Development and Public Policy Challenges in India, edited by Rakheee Bhattacharya, Springer, 2015

3. ‘Regional Rural Banks in India- Past, Present and Future’ in the book Dynamics of Indian Banking-Views and Vistas (editor) Manoranjan Sharma, Atlantic Publishers, New Delhi, 2008

4. ‘Challenges of Inclusive Banking: Experience of Bihar’ in Changing Scenario of Indian Banking (editor) R.K.Uppal, Mahamaya Publishing House, New Delhi, India 2008.

5. ‘Does Fiscal Stance Contribute to Inflation? Experience of the Indian States’ co-authored with S. R. Behera in India in the emerging Global Order (eds), Amar KJR Nayak & M G Jomon, McGraw-Hill, New Delhi, 2008.

Book Review

‘Impact of Economic Reforms’ - Book Review of ‘Indian Economic Reforms edited by Raghbendra Jha’ in Economic and Political Weekly Vol. XXXIX No.39 (September 25 - October 1, 2004).