AUT - Saten Kumar

Saten Kumar

Lecturer in Economics

Phone: +64 9 921 9999 – ext: 5817

Email: : saten.kumar@aut.ac.nz

Qualifications:

• Phd Economics (in-progress) at AUT University, New Zealand. Thesis titled: ‘A cross country analysis of the demand for money.’
• M. Com Economics at University of the South Pacific, Fiji.
  
• Postgraduate Diploma Economics at University of the South Pacific, Fiji.
• Bachelor of Education Economics at University of the South Pacific, Fiji.

Biography:

Born in 1981, Saten completed his B.Ed (2004), Postgraduate Diploma (2006) and M.Com (2007) degrees in Economics. Saten’s Master’s thesis is forthcoming as a book in ICFAI University Press (India).  His PhD thesis which he is currently involved with examines the impact of financial reforms on the demand for money in developing and also developed countries. He expects to complete this by 2011 and under the supervision of Associate Professor Don Webber and Dr Scott Fargher at AUT University.

Teaching Areas:

• Undergraduate teaching: Intermediate Macroeconomics, Economic Growth and Development, Globalisation and Business Enterprise and Research Applications for Business.
• Postgraduate teaching: Advanced Macroeconomics and Advanced Econometrics.

Research areas:

• Macroeconomics
• Monetary Economics
  
• Time Series and Panel Data Estimation Methods

Research Summary:

Saten is a Applied Economist and has published numerous journal articles in internationally ranked journals and some articles are in collaboration with eminent economists including Prof. B. Bhaskara Rao (University of Western Sydney, Australia), Prof. Emmanuel Anoruo (Coppin State University, USA), Prof. Artur Tamazian (University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain) and Prof. Billy Manoka (University of Papua New Guinea, PNG).

He has also refereed articles for journals such as Economic Modelling, Journal of Developing Areas, Journal of Chinese Economic and Foreign Trade Studies, Journal of the Franklin Institute and Journal of International Trade and Economic Development.

Current Research Projects:

•    Effects of financial reforms and crises on money demand relationships.
•    Relationship between government spending and economic growth.
•    Savings, investment and capital mobility in OECD countries.

Publications:

Kumar, S. “Cointegration and Demand for Energy in Fiji,” forthcoming in International Journal of Global Energy Issues (rated A level by the Australian Business Deans Council).  

Kumar, S. and Rao, B.B.  (2011) “A Time Series Approach to Feldstein-Horioka Puzzle with Panel Data for OECD Countries,” The World Economy,  Vol 34(3), pp 473-485 (rated A level by the Australian Business Deans Council).  

Kumar, S., Webber, D.J and Perry, G. “Real Wages, Inflation and Labour Productivity in Australia,” forthcoming in Applied Economics (rated A level by the Australian Business Deans Council).  

Kumar, S., Webber, D.J. and Fargher, S. “Testing the Validity of the Feldstein-Horioka Puzzle for Australia,” forthcoming in Applied Economics (rated A level by the Australian Business Deans Council).  

Kumar, S., Webber, D.J. and Fargher, S. “Wagner’s Law Revisited: Cointegration and Causality Tests for New Zealand,” forthcoming in Applied Economics (rated A level by the Australian Business Deans Council).  

Rao, B.B, Tamazian, A. and Kumar, S. (2010) “Systems GMM Estimates of the Feldstein-Horioka Puzzle for the OECD Countries and Tests for Structural Breaks,” Economic Modelling, Vol. 27(5), pp. 1269-1273 (rated A level by the Australian Business Deans Council).  

Rao, B.B. and Kumar, S. (2009) “A Panel Data Approach to the Demand for Money and the Effects of Financial Reforms in the Asian Countries,” Economic Modelling, Vol. 26(5), pp.1012-1017 (rated A level by the Australian Business Deans Council).  

Rao, B.B. and Kumar, S. (2009) “Cointegration, Structural Breaks and the Demand for Money in Bangladesh,” Applied Economics, Vol. 41(10), pp. 1277-1283 (rated A level by the Australian Business Deans Council).