ARABINDA BASISTHA

Assistant Professor

Education:

Ph.D. University of Washington, 2002.
M.A. University of Washington, 1999.
M.A. Delhi School of Economics, India, 1996.

Current Positions:

Assistant Professor of Economics

Selected Previous Positions:

Visiting Assistant Professor, Wellesley College, 2002-03.

Research Interests:

Macroeconomics and monetary economics, econometrics, international macroeconomics.

Selected Recent Publications and Papers, 1990-Present:

Basistha, Arabinda and Richard Startz. Why were changes in the federal funds rate smaller in the 1990s? The Journal of Applied Econometrics, forthcoming.

Basistha, Arabinda and Charles Nelson. New measures of the output gap based on the forward-looking New Keynesian Phillips Cure.

Basistha, Arabinda. Was the federal reserve more cautious in the 1990s: An ordered probit analysis.

Basistha, Arabinda and Srobona Mitra. Multiple sluggish mean shifts and persistence: An application to short term real interest rates.

Selected Scholarly Service and Honors:

Grover and Creta Ensley Fellowship, University of Washington, Winter-Spring 2002.
Center for Advanced Studies Scholarship, Delhi School of Economics, 1994-96.
National Scholarship, University Grants Commission, Calcutta University, 1994.
Referee for:

International Journal of Forecasting

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Arabinda Basistha
Department of Economics
West Virginia University
P.O. Box 6025
Morgantown, WV 26506-6025
Email: ArBasistha@mail.wvu.edu

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