Kushagra Thakral

Empirical Analysis of the Relationship Between Credit Risk and Unemployment, Tuafeeq Azaz, IIFT Kolkata

• Examined the impact of sovereign credit rating on unemployment through an extension of the conventional IS and LM model, and tested its viability through empirics.
• Conducted a panel regression on data from 53 countries to test the impact of CDS Swap on various key macroeconomic variables.

Application of ARIMA and Machine Learning (Support Vector Regression) for Stock Market Price Prediction, Dr. A K Srustidhar Chand, IIFT Delhi

• Collected stock market prices of 10 different stocks from 10 different industries and used support vector classifier (SVC) and SARIMAX to predict their stock prices and compare the cumulative returns with the actual returns.
• Created a portfolio of stocks with equal weights and analyzed the cumulative return of the portfolio from SVC and SARIMAX predictions with the actual cumulative returns of Nifty50 index.

Rules of Origin for Free Trade Agreements (FTA's), Ministry of Commerce, 2022-2023

• Analyzing the bi-lateral foreign trade agreements between the European Union and 7 other nations.
• Compiled a list of Product Specific Rules of Origin for assigned countries, encompassing on average 15 Free Trade Agreements with 5000+ rows of data pertaining to over 90+ chapters.

• Chess
• Badminton (1st Position in Intra College Badminton Tournament for 2 consecutive years)