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SchemeofExamination M.A.(Economics) 2014-15
List of Optional Paper for IIIrd Semester (Any two of the following)
List of Optional Paper for IVth Semester (Any two of the following)
SEMESTERI
CourseNo. CourseTitle Theory+Int.
ECO-101 Microeconomics-I 80+20
ECO-102 Macroeconomics-I 80+20
ECO-103 EconomicsofGrowthandDevelopment-I 80+20
ECO-104 MathematicsforEconomists-I 80+20
ECO-105 Statistical Methods-I 80+20
Total Marks 500
SEMESTER II
ECO-201 Microeconomics-II 80+20
ECO-202 Macroeconomics-II 80+20
ECO-203 EconomicsofGrowthandDevelopment-II 80+20
ECO-204 MathematicsforEconomists-II 80+20
ECO-205 Statistical Methods-II 80+20
Total Marks 500
SEMESTER III
ECO-301 Indian Economy-I 80+20
ECO-302 International Trade & Finance-I 80+20
ECO-303 Public Economics-I 80+20
ECO-304 Optional Paper - I 80+20
ECO-305 Optional Paper - II 80+20
Total 500
SEMESTER IV
ECO-401 Indian Economy-II 80+20
ECO-402 International Trade & Finance-II 80+20
ECO-403 Public Economics-II 80+20
ECO-404 Optional Paper - III 80+20
ECO-405 Optional Paper - IV 80+20
Total Marks 500
GrandTotal 2000
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List of Optional Paper for IIIrd Semester (Any two of the following)
(i) Mathematical Economics – I
(ii) Industrial Economics – I
(iii) Agricultural Economics-I
(iv) Financial Institutions and Markets-I
(v) Econometrics-I
(vi) Operations Research-I
(vii) Managerial Economics-I
List of Optional Paper for IVth Semester (Any two of the following)
(i) Mathematical Economics – II
(ii) Industrial Economics – II
(iii) Agricultural Economics-II
(iv) Financial Institutions and Markets-II
(v) Econometrics-II
(vi) Operations Research-II
(vii) Managerial Economics-II
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M.A.(Economics) 2014-15
Semester-I
ECO 101 MICROECONOMICS-I
MaximumMarks:100
ExternalExamination:80
InternalAssessment:20
Time: 3Hrs.
Unit-I
Natureandscopeof EconomicsandMicroeconomics.Positive andnormativeanalysis.Role
ofassumptionsineconomic analysis.Circular flowofeconomicactivity.
Conceptsofhousehold,firm,factors
ofproduction,equilibrium, partialandgeneral,static,comparativestaticanddynamic
analysis,marginandslope.
Elasticity -needandmeasures-Relationshipbetweenrevenueandelasticity.
Unit-II
Analysisofconsumerbehaviour,demandfunction,law of demand-cardinal, ordinal and revealled
preferencecue approaches, income-consumption curve, Engel curve,
substituteandcomplimentarygood
s.
Marketdemandcurve;consequencesofBandwagon,Snob andVebleneffect.Conceptofconsumersurplus.
Unit-III
LawsofProduction:shortrunandlongrun.Internalandexternal economiesanddiseconomies.Conceptofcost,
derivationof shortandlongruncostcurves.Optimuminputcombination. Simple
caseofmultiproductfirm.Technical progress and production function: Hick's classification.
Elasticityofsubstitution.PropertiesofCobb-DouglasandCESproduction function.
Unit-IV
Pricing processand equilibriumof firmand industry
underperfectcompetition,monopoly(includingdiscriminatingmonopoly and bilateral monopoly,
monopolistic competition. Welfareeffectsofpricecontrol,pricesupportandproductionquota. Note:
Thequestionpapershallhavefiveunits.Eachofthe first fourunits will contain two questions
and the studentsshallbeaskedtoattemptonequestionfrom each unit. Unit fiveshall contain
eight to ten short
answertypequestionswithoutanyinternalchoiceanditshallcovertheentiresyllabus.Assuch,unitfiv
eshall becompulsory.
SUGGESTED READING
Koutsoyiannis,A."ModernMicroeconomics"(Macmillan)
Lipsey,R.G.andChrysal,K.Alec"AnIntroductiontoPositiveEconomics"(OUP)
Salvatore,D."MicroeconomicTheory"(Shaum'sOutline series, Tata McGrawHill)
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M.A.(Economics) 2014-15
Semester-I
ECO 102 MACROECONOMICS-I
MaximumMarks:100
ExternalExamination:80
InternalAssessment:20
Time: 3Hrs.
Unit-I
Determination of Output and Employment : Classical Approach -
OutputandEmploymentinclassicalTheory;The
QuantityTheoryofMoneyandthePriceLevel;ClassicalModel
withoutsavingandinvestment;ClassicalModelwithsaving and investment.
KeynesianApproach TwoSectorModel,ThreeSectorModel andFourSectorModel.
Unit-II
Determination of Outputand Employment :Theextended Model(Hickes-Henson
Synthesis):FixedPriceLevel-The goodsMarketandtheMoneyMarket;EquilibriuminGoods
MarketandMoneyMarket;ChangesinAggregateDemand;
Govt.spending,TaxationandAggregateDemand;TheIS- LM ElasticitiesandMonetaryFiscalPolicies.
Unit-III
The Extended Model :Variable Price Level - Deviation of
AggregateDemandCurveandDeterminationofequilibrium priceandoutput level; wage- price
flexibility and the Full Employmentequilibrium;Monetary-FiscalpoliciesandtheFull-
EmploymentEquilibrium.
Unit-IV
BehaviouralFoundation:TheoriesofConsumption–The
AbsoluteIncomeHypothesis,ThePermanentIncomeTheory of Consumption; The Life cycle Theory of
Consumption ; Theories of Investment - The Present Value Criterion for
Investment;TheMarginalEfficiencyofCapitalandInvestment;
TheAcceleratorTheory;FinancialTheoryofInvestment.
Note:
Thequestionpapershallhavefiveunits.Eachofthe first fourunits will contain two questions and the
studentsshallbeaskedtoattemptonequestionfrom each unit. Unit fiveshall contain eight to ten short
answertypequestionswithoutanyinternalchoiceand
itshallbecoveringtheentiresyllabus.Assuch,unit fiveshallbecompulsory.
SUGGESTED READING Ackley, G(1978), Macroeconomics : Theory and Policy,Macmillan,NewYork.
Banson, W.A. (1989), MacroeconomicTheory and Policy,(3rdEdition),HarperandRow,NewYork.
Dorn Busch, R. andF. Stanley(1997), Macroeconomics,McGrawHill,Inc.NewYork.
Heijdra,B.J.andV.P.Fredricck(2001),Foundationof Modern Macroeconomic, Oxford University
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Press, NewDelhi.
Jha, R. (1991) ContemporaryMacroeconomicsTheoryandPolicy, WileyEasternLtd., NewDelhi.
Shapiro,E.(1996),MacroeconomicAnalysis,Galgolia Publication,NewDelhi.
Survey,M.J.C.(Ed.)(1976),MacroeconomicThemes, BoandReedGeoffrey(1994)InternationalEconomics,
MacmillanPressLtd.
Peterson, W.C.(1978), Income Employment and EconomicGrowth,Norton,New York.
Sheffrin,StevenM.(1996),RationalExpectations,2nd edition,cambridgeUniversityPress.
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M.A.(Economics) 2014-15
Semester-I
ECO 103ECONOMICSOFGROWTHAND DEVELOPMENT-I
MaximumMarks:100
ExternalExamination:80
InternalAssessment:20
Time:3Hrs.
Unit-I
Economicgrowth, Economicdevelopment-meaning, developmentandunderdevelopment.
Perpetuationofunderdevelopment-viciouscircleof poverty, circularcausation, structuralviewofunder-
development.Measurementofdevelopment-conventional,Human Development
Indexandqualityoflifeindices, conceptof sustainabledevelopment.
Unit-II
Theoriesofdevelopment:Classical,MarxSchumpeterand
structuralanalysisofdevelopment,Lewismodelofdevelopment. Renis-
FeiModel,dependencytheoryofdevelopment. Restow's-Theoryofstagesofeconomicgrowth.
Unit-III
Strategiesofeconomicgrowth:balancedgrowth,criticalminimum
efforts,bigpush,unbalancedgrowth,lowincomeequilibriumtrap.
Unit-IV
Theoriesofeconomicgrowth:ModelsofgrowthofJohnRobinson andKaldor,Harrod-
Donarmodel,instabilityofequilibrium,Neo- classicalgrowthsolow'smodel,steadystategrowth,made.
Note:
Thequestionpapershallhavefiveunits.Eachofthe first fourunits will contain two questions
and the studentsshallbeaskedtoattemptonequestionfrom each unit. Unit fiveshall contain
eight to ten short answertypequestionswithoutanyinternalchoiceand
itshallcovertheentiresyllabus.Assuch,unitfiveshall becompulsory.
SUGGESTED READING
Meir, G.M. (1995), LeadingIssues in Economic Development,OxfordUniversityPress,NewDelhi.
MishraS.K.andV.K.Puri,ERconomicsofDevelopment andPlanning,HimalayaPublishing House,Mumbai.
Todaro,M.P.EconomicDevelopment,LatestEdition, Longman,London.
Hogendorn, J. (1996), EconomicDevelopment, Addison,Wesley,NewYork.
Thiwal, A.P. (2003), (6th Edition), Growth and Development,Macmillan,NewYork.
M.A.(Economics) 2014-15
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Semester-I
ECO 104 MATHEMATICSFORECONOMISTS
MaximumMarks:100
ExternalExamination:80
InternalAssessment:20
Time:3Hrs.
Unit-I
Basics:realnumbersystem,setsandset operations, relations and functions, inverse functions; solution of
linear equations in two variables, solution of quadratic equations,
logarithmsandexponents;exogenousandendogenousvariables.
Unit-II
FundamentalsofMatrices;Determinants.Solutionofa systemof upto3 equations by matrixinversionand
Cramer's rule.Input-Outputanalysis-Staticopenmodel.
Unit-III
Differentiation-ideaoflimit(butnotitsevaluation),meaning and economicinterpretations
ofderivative. Rules ofdifferentiationincludinglogarithms andexponential functions.Unconstrainedoptimization-
singlechoicevariable;globalandlocal.
Unit-IV
Calculusofmultivariablefunctions,higherorderderivatives,
constrainedoptimizationwithupto2equalityconstraints.
Note:
1. Purposeofthecourseistolearn,withunderstanding application of mathematical tools, in
economics. Derivationsand proofsare to be avoided
2. Thequestionpapershallhavefiveunits.Eachofthe first fourunits will contain two questions
and the students shall be asked to
attemptone question fromeachunit.Unitfive shallcontaineightto ten short answer type
questions without any internal choice and it shall cover the entiresyllabus. As
such,unitfiveshallbecompulsory.
SUGGESTED READINGS Chiang, Alpha C. "FundamentalMethodsof MathematicalEconomics" (McgrawHill).
Dowling, EdwardT. "Mathematics forEconomists" (Schaum'sOutlineSeries,TataMcgrawHill).
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M.A.(Economics) 2014-15
Semester-I
ECO 105 STATISTICALMETHODS-I
MaximumMarks:100
ExternalExamination:80
InternalAssessment:20
Time:3Hrs. Unit-I
Diagrammaticandgraphicrepresentationof statistical data.Measures of central tendency: A.M.,
G.M.,H.M., Median,quartiles,deciles,percentiles,mode,relationship between A.M., G.M.
andH.M. selectionofanaverage, Limitationsofaverages.
Unit-II
Measures of dispersion:Range, interquartile range,
quartiledeviation,meandeviation,standarddeviation.Standard deviation of the combined series,
variance, coefficient of variation, relation between various measures of dispersion,
Lorenzcurve,skewnessandkurtosis,moments.
Unit-III
Ind exnumbers : P r ob lema nd me tho ds o f construct ionofvarioustypesof indices, Laspeyres,
Paasche'sandFishersidealindexnumbers.Timereversal, factorreversalandcirculartests; chain-
baseindices,base shifting,splicinganddeflatingtheindexnumbers.Costof
livingindexnumbersandconsumerpriceindexnumbers.T ime s er ies c ompone nt s of t ime se r ies
an d t he i rdecomposition. Methodsof measuringtrend, cyclical,
seasonalandirregularvariations.
Unit-IV
Random experiment, random variable, sample space, events, fundamentalsprinciplesof
counting, classical,relativefrequencyandaxiomaticapproachesto probabi li ty, bas ic resultson
probabili ty, condit ional probability, Baye'stheorem.
Note:
The questionpaper shallhave five units. Each ofthefirstfourunitswill
containtwoquestionsandthestudentsshall beaskedtoattemptone questionfrom
eachunit.Unitfiveshallcontaineighttotenshort answer typequestions without anyinternal choice
anditshallcovertheentiresyllabus.Assuch,unit fiveshallbecompulsory.
SUGGESTED READING Gupta S.C."FundamentalsofStatistics"S.Chand&SonsNewDelhi(1993).
Spiegel, MurryR "Theory and problemsof Statistics" (Schaum'soutlineseries,McGrawHill)(1992)
KamalP.H.andPolasekM."AppliedStatisticsfor Economists(4thEdition),Pitman, Austral
M.A.(Economics) 2014-15
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Semester-II
ECO 201 MICROECONOMICS-II
MaximumMarks:100
ExternalExamination:80
InternalAssessment:20
Time:3Hrs.
Unit-I
Oligopoly: noncollusivemodels-Cournot,Bertrand, kinked demand model ; collusive models -
joint profit maxmising,marketsharingandleadershipcartels.Critiqueof neo-
classicaltheoryoffirm.Theoryofgames-twoperson,
zerosumgame,pureandmixedstrategy,saddlepointsolution.
Unit-II
Alternat ivetheoriesof f irm : Baumol's Sales maximization model (simple, static without
advertisement model), Morris, Williamson, Average/fullcost pricing, Bain's
limitpricingandbehaviouralistmodelofCyertandMarch.
Unit-III
Neoclassical theory of factor pricing under
comparartiveconditions,withmonopolisticpowerinproduct market, monoposonisticpower in factor
market, bilateral monopolyinfactormarket,monopolyinfactormarket.Product
exhaustionproblem.Neoclassicaltheoryof rent,quasi-rent,
interestandprofit.IssuesinGeneralEquilibriumanalysis.
Unit-IV
Conceptofsocialwelfare,someearlycriteria,Pareto
optimallycriterionandefficiencyconditions,Bergson'ssocial
welfarefunction,ideaoftheoryofsecondbestandArrow's
impossibilitytheorem,compensationcriterion.Marketstructure andwelfaremaximization.Marketfailure-
caseofexternality andpublicgoodsandwaysofcorrectingit.
Note:
The questionpaper shallhave five units. Each ofthefirstfourunitswill containtwoquestionsandthe
studentsshall beaskedtoattemptone questionfrom eachunit.Unitfiveshallcontaineighttotenshort
answer typequestions without anyinternal choice anditshallcovertheentiresyllabus.Assuch,unit
fiveshallbecompulsory.
SUGGESTED READING Koutsoyiannis, A."Modern Microeconomics" (Macmillan)
Lipsey,R.G.andChrysal,K.Alec"AnIntroductiontoPossitiveEconomics.(OUP)
Salvatore,D."MicroeconomicTheory" (Schaum'sOutlineseries,TataMcGrawHill.).
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M.A.(Economics) 2014-15
Semester-II
ECO 202MACROECONOMICS-II
MaximumMarks:100
ExternalExamination:80
InternalAssessment:20
Time:3Hrs.
Unit-I
The Demand for and supply of money : Classical ApproachtoDemandforMoney-
QuantityTheoryApproach; Fisher's equilibrium; Cambridge Quantity theory; Keynes
LiquidityApproach - Transact ion, Precautionaryand Speculative Demand for Money, Aggregate
Demand for Money;Friedman,Patinkin,BaumolandTobin. Determinantsofmoneysupply,High-powerMoney,MoneyMultiplier.
Unit-II Inflation:DefinitionofInflation;Economiceffectsof Inflation- TheeffectofInflationonthedistributionofIncomeand Wealth,TheeffectofInflationonoutput,EmploymentandtheGrowth Rate;Demandsideandsupplysidetheoriesofinflation.
Unit-III Inflationandunemployment:ThePhillipsCurve,The Inflationary PressureCurve : Phillips Curve,
Inflationary PressureCurveandtheRateofinflation.ThePhillipsCurve; Trade
offandNonTradeoff.AdaptiveExpectationandRational Expectation,KeynesianismVsMonetarism.
Unit-IV TradeCycles-ModelsofSamuelson,HicksandKaldor, Economic Growth: Harrod- DomarModel; Neo
Classical Model(withmoney&withoutmoney).InternationalAdjustment
:TheDeterminationofNationalIncomeinopenEconomy;The
InternationalTransmissionofDisturbance:Transmissionunder
FixedExchangeRate;TransmissionunderFloatingExchange rate(MundellFlemingModel).
Note: The questionpaper shallhave five units. Each ofthefirstfourunitswill containtwoquestionsandthe
studentsshall beaskedtoattemptone questionfrom eachunit.Unitfiveshallcontaineighttotenshort
answer typequestions without anyinternal choice anditshallcovertheentiresyllabus.Assuch,unit
fiveshallbecompulsory.
SUGGESTED READING
Ackley, G(1978), Macroeconomics : Theory and Policy,Macmillan,NewYork.
Banson, W.A. (1989), MacroeconomicTheory and Policy,(3rdEdition),HarperandRow,NewYork.
Dorn Busch, R. and F. Stanley (1997),
Macroeconomics,McGrawHill,Inc.NewYork. Heijdra,B.J.andV.P.Fredrick(2001),Foundationof Modern Macroeconomics, Oxford University Press, NewDelhi.
Jha,R.(1991)ContemporaryMacroeconomicsTheoryandPolicy, WileyEasternLtd.,NewDelhi.
Shapiro,E. (1996),MacroeconomicAnalysis,Galgotia Publication,NewDelhi.
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Survey,M.J.C.(Ed.)(1976),MacroeconomicThemes,
BoandReedGeoffrey(1994)InternationalEconomics, MacmillanPressLtd.
Peterson, W.C.(1978), Income Employment and EconomicGrowth,Norton,New York.
Sheffrin,StevenM.(1996), RationalExpectations,2nd edition,CambridgeUniversity Press.
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M.A.(Economics) 2014-15
Semester-II ECO 203ECONOMICSOFGROWTHAND DEVELOPMENT-II
MaximumMarks:100
ExternalExamination:80
InternalAssessment:20
Time:3Hrs. Unit-I
SectoralAspectsof development; Importance of agricultureandindustryineconomicdevelopment.
Roleofinstitutions-governmentandmarkets.Poverty-indicatorsandmeasurement.
Unit-II
Tradeanddevelopment: tradeas anengine ofgrowth,
twogapanalysis,Prebisch,SingerandMurdalviews,gainsfrom
tradeandLDCs;RoleofforeignDirectinvestment(FDI)andMulti-
nationalcorporations(MNCs)intheemergingscenario.
Unit-III
Objects androle of monetary and fiscal policies
ineconomicsdevelopment;Choiceoftechniquesandappropriate
technology;InvestmentCriteria;Costbenefitsanalysis.
Unit-IV
Techniquesofplanning:PlanModelsinIndia;Planning inamarket-
orientedeconomy;Endogenousgrowth;roleof educationresearchandknowledge-ExplanantionofCross
countrydifferentialsineconomicdevelopmentandgrowth.
Note :
The questionpaper shallhave five units. Each ofthefirstfourunitswill containtwoquestionsandthe
studentsshallbeaskedtoattemptonequestionfrom eachunit.Unitfiveshallcontaineighttotenshort
answertypequestionswithoutanyinternal choiceanditshallcovertheentiresyllabus.Assuch,unit
fiveshallbecompulsory.
SUGGESTED READING
Behrman,S.andT.N.Srivasan(1995),Handbookof DevelopmentEconomics,Vol-3,ElsevierAmsterdam.
Chenery,H.B.et.al.(Eds.)(1974),Redistributionwith Growth,OxfordUniversityPress,Oxford.
Higgins, B. (1959), EconomicDevelopment, W.W. Norton,NewYork.
Kindleberger,C.P.(1977)Economicdevelopment(3rd
Edition),Mc GrawHill,NewYork.
Todaro,M.P.EconomicDevelopment,LatestEdition, Longman,London.
Thirwal, A.P. (2003), (6th Edition), Growth and Development,Macmillan,NewYork.
Singh S.P. (ed.) . Fromunderdevelopmentto Development
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M.A.(Economics) 2014-15
Semester-II ECO 204MATHEMATICSFORECONOMISTS-II
MaximumMarks:100
ExternalExamination:80
InternalAssessment:20
Time:3Hrs.
Unit-I
Integration -meaningand economicinterpretation.
Indefiniteanddefiniteintegration.Simpletechniquesincluding integrationby
substitutionandintegrationby parts.
Unit-II
Differentialequation-basicconcepts,solutionoffirst order lineardifferentialequation. Non-linear
Differential equation-exactandvariableseparabletypeonly.Linear
Differential equat ion of second order with constantcoefficientandterm.
Unit-III
Differenceequation-basicconcepts,solutionoffirst
andsecondorderlineardifferenceequationwithconstantterm andcoefficient.
Unit-IV
LinearProgramming-Relevanceandbasicconcepts,
graphic,simplexanddualsolution.Economicinterpretation ofdual.
Note:
1. Purposeofthecourseis tolearn,withunderstanding application of mathematicaltools in
economics. Derivations and proofs are to beavoided
2. Thequestionpapershallhavefiveunits.Eachofthe first fourunits will contain two questions and
the studentsshallbeaskedtoattemptonequestionfrom each unit. Unit five shall contain eight to ten short
answertypequestionswithoutanyinternalchoiceand itshall cover theentire syllabus. Assuch, unitfive
shallbecompulsory.
SUGGESTED READINGS
Chiang, Alpha C. "FundamentalMethodsof MathematicalEconomics" (McgrawHill).
Dowling, EdwardT. "Mathematics forEconomists" (Schaum'sOutlineSeries,TataMcgrawHill).
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M.A.(Economics) 2014-15
Semester-II
ECO 205STATISTICALMETHODS-II
MaximumMarks:100
ExternalExamination:80
InternalAssessment:20
Time:3Hrs.
Unit-I
Probabilitydistributionofarandomvaraible,conceptanduseofmathematicalexpectation,meanandvarainaceofa distributionin terms of expectation, moments, density fucntions.Jointandmarginalprobabilitydistributions.Binomial, Poisson andNormal distribution, properties and inter relationships,Fittingofdistributions.
Unit-II
Census versussample enumeration. Methods and
typesofsampling,samplingerror,smallandlargesample,
conceptofanestimatoranditssamplingdistribution;properties
ofagoodestimator,conceptsofpointandintervalestimation,OLSand
MLestimatorsofregressionparameters.
Unit-III
Elements of statistical Inference : Parameter and estimators, concepts of samplingdistribution of a
statistic,
standarderror,hypothesistesting,testsofsignificance,TypeIandTypeIIerrors,levelofsignificance,Powerofa
test,z,t,chi- squareandFtests.
Unit-IV Correlationandregression;simplecorrelation,Pearson Spearman's correlationcoefficients, multiple
and partial correlationanalysis,specificationofasimplelinearregression
model,leastsquareestimationoflinearregressioncoefficients,
interpretationandregressioncoefficientsandtheirproperties.
Note :
The questionpaper shallhave five units. Each ofthefirstfourunitswill
containtwoquestionsandthe studentsshallbeaskedtoattemptonequestionfrom
eachunit.Unitfiveshallcontaineighttotenshort answer typequestions without anyinternal
choice anditshallcovertheentiresyllabus.Assuch,unit fiveshallbecompulsory.
SUGGESTED READING
Gupta S.C."FundamentalsofStatistics"S.Chand&SonsNewDelhi(1993).
Spiegel, MurryR "Theory and problemsof Statistics" (Schaum'soutlineseries,McGrawHill)(1992)
KamalP.H.andPolasekM."AppliedStatisticsforEconomists(4thEdition),Pitman, Australia
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M.A.(Economics) 2014-15
Semester-III
ECO 301 INDIAN ECONOMY-I
MaximumMarks:100
ExternalExamination:80
InternalAssessment:20
Time:3Hrs.
Unit-I
FeaturesofIndianeconomy;Nature andCharacteristicsofIndian economy; Planning;
objectivesandstrategies; failuresandachievementsof plans.
Basic economicindicators-National income, performance of
differentsectors,Trendsinpricesandmoneysupply.
Unit-II
Institutionalstructure;Land-reformsinIndia;Agriculturalmarketing and warehousing; Issues in food
security – policies for sustainable agriculture;Agriculturalfinancepolicy;Agriculturepricepolicy.
Unit-III
Malthusiantheoryofpopulation,optimumtheoryofpopulation,theory
of demographic transition, population as 'Limits to Growth' and as
'UltimateSource'.
ConceptsofDemography-Vitalrates,lifetables,compositionanduses.Measurementoffertility–Totalfertility
rate,grossandnetreproduc-
tionrate–Agepyramids,populationprojection-stable,stationaryand quasi-stationary population;
Characteristics of Indian population throughrecentcensus.
Unit-IV
Financial Sector : Monetary policy of RBI; Money and Capital markets; Growth and problem; Role of
commercial banks in India; Bankingsectorreformssince1991. Note:Thequestionpapershallhavefiveunits.Eachofthefirstfour units will contain two questions and the students shall be asked to attemptonequestionfromeachunit. Unitfiveshallcontaineightto ten short answer type questsionswithout any internal choiceand it
shall becovering the entire syllabus. As such, unit five shall be compulsory.
SuggestedReading:
– Bardhan, P.K. (9thEdition)(1999),ThePoliticalEconoyofDevel-
opmentinIndia,OxfordUniversityPress,New Delhi.
– Brahmanda, P.R. andV.R. Panchmukhi(Eds.)(2001), Develop-
mentExperienceintheIndiaEconomy;Inter-statePerspectives, Bookwell,Delhi.
– Datta,R.andK.P.M.Sundhram(2003),IndianEconomy.S.Chand
&CompanyLtd.New Delhi.
– GovernmentofIndia,EconomicSurvey,(Annual),Ministry ofFi- nance,NewDelhi.
– Mishra, S.K. andV.K. PuriIndianEconomy–1stDevelopment
Experience,HimalayaPublishingHouse,Mumbai,LatestEdition.
– RudraAshok,IndianPlanModels.
– Todaro,P.DevelopmentPlanning:ModelsandMethods–
UnitedNations,GuidelinesforProjectedEvaluation.
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M.A.(Economics) 2014-15
Semester-III
ECO 302 INTERNATIONAL TRADE & FINANCE-I
MaximumMarks:100
ExternalExamination:80
InternalAssessment:20
Unit-I
The pure theory of international trade – Theories of absolute
advantage,comparativeadvantageandopportunitycosts, moderntheory
ofinternationaltrade;Theoremoffactorpriceequalization;Empirical
testingofthetheoryofabsolutecostandcomparativecost-Heckscher- Ohlin theory of trade. Kravis and Linder
theory of trade Role of dynamic factors, i.e. change intastes, technology andfactor
endowmentsinexplainingtheemergenceoftrade;
Unit-II
The Rybezynskitheorem-concept andpolicy implicationsof
immiserizinggrowth;Causesofemergencyandmeasurementofintra-
industrytradeanditsimpactondevelopingeconomies.Measurement
ofgainsfromtradeandtheirdistribution;Conceptsoftermsoftrade, their uses andlimitations for less
developedcountries; Tradeas an engineofeconomicgrowth;Welfareimplications-empiricalevidence
andpolicyissues;
Unit-III
Thetheoryofinterventions (Tariffs, Quotasandnon-tariffbarriers); Economic effects of tariffs and quotas on
national income, output, employment, terms of trade, income distributionand balance of
paymentsontradingpartnersbothinpartialandgeneralequilibrium analysis. The political economyof non-
tarriffbarriers and their implications;Tradeunderimperfectlycompetitivemarket.
Unit-IV
Meaning and components of balance of payments; Equilibrium and disquilibriuminthebalanceofpayments;Theprocessofadjustment under system of gold standard, fixed exchange rates and flexible exchangerates; Expenditure-reducing and expenditure-switching policies and direct controls for adjustment; Policies for achieving internal and external equilibrium simultaneously under alternative exchange rate regimes; a critical review of the Absorption and monetaryapproachestothetheoryofbalancepaymentadjustment.
Note:Thequestionpapershallhavefiveunits.Eachofthefirstfour units will contain two questions and the
students shall be asked to attemptonequestionfromeachunit. Unitfiveshallcontaineightto ten short answer
type questsionswithout any internal choiceand it shall be covering the entire syllabus. As such, unit five
shall be compulsary.
SuggestedReading:
– Bhagwani,J.(Ed.)(1981),InternationalTrade,SelectedReadings,
CambridgeUniversityPress,Massachusetts.
– Carbouth,M.(1999),InternationalEconomics,InternationalTh- ompsonPublishing,NewYork.
– Chacholiades,M.(1990),InternationalTrade:TheoryandPolicy, McGrawHill,Kogakusha,Japan.
– Dana,M.S.(2000),InternationalEconomics:StudyGuideandWork
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Book(5thEdition)RutledgePublishers,London.
– Dunn, R.M. and J.H. Mutt (2000), International Economics, RutledgePublishers,London.
– Kenen,P.B.(1994),TheInternationalEconomy,CambridgeUni- versityPress,London.
– Kindleberger,C.P.(1973),InternationalEconomics,R.D.Irwin, Homewood.
– King,P.G.(1995),InternationalEconomicsandInternationalEco-
nomicPolicy:AReader,McGrawHillInternational,Singapore.
– Krufman,P.R. andM.Obstfeld(1994),InternationalEconomics: TheoryandPolicy,Glenview,Foresman.
– Salvatore,D.(1997),InternationalEconomics, PrenticeHall,Up- perSaddleRiver,N.J.NewYork.
– Soderston,BO(1991),InternationalEconomics,TheMacmillan PressLtd.London.
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M.A.(Economics) 2014-15
Semester-III
ECO 303 PUBLIC ECONOMICS-I
MaximumMarks:100
ExternalExamination:80
InternalAssessment:20
Unit-I
Economicrationaleofgovernment, fiscalfunctions; market failures; imperfections, decreasingcosts,
externalitiesandpublic goods; con- ceptsofprivategoods,purepublicgoods,mixedgoodsandmeritgoods;
theoryofpublicgoods;freeRider'sproblem,theoptimalprovisionof publicgoods,
contributionsofSamuelsonandMusgrave.Lindhalequi-
libriumpublicchoiceandfiscaldecisionmaking,votingsystems,ma- jorityvoting.
Unit-II
Budgeting :Various concepts of Budget, reforms in expenditure
budgeting,zerobasedbudgetingandperformancebudgeting.Budgets
oftheUnionGovernmentinIndia, budget makingprocess inIndia; PublicexpenditureinIndia;trendsandissues.
Unit-III
Public Expenditure: Structure and growth of public expenditure; Wangner'shypothesis,Peacock-
Wisemanhypothesis;economiceffects
of public expenditure; criteria for public investment, social cost-
benefitsanalysis;valuationofbenefitsandcosts,discountrate.
Unit-IV Theory ofTaxation:Vatiousapproaches totaxation, neutrality, eq- uity, ability to pay, benefit principle, revenuemaximization, income maximization;analysisofincidenceoftaxes,elasticity,buoyancyand taxable,capacity,efficienttaxdesign:optionaltaxation,effectsoftaxa- tiononworkeffort,savings,investmentandgrowth;classificationof taxes:directandindirecttaxes,progressive,proportionate andregres-sivetaxes,Advaloremandspecifictaxes; taxsysteminIndia;struc-
ture,compositionandvariouseconimicissues.
Note:Thequestionpapershallhavefiveunits.Eachofthefirstfour units will contain two questions and the
students shall be asked to attemptonequestionfromeachunit. Unitfiveshallcontaineightto ten short answer
type questsionswithout any internal choiceand it shall be covering the entire syllabus. As such, unit five
shall be compulsary.
SuggestedReading:
– MasgraveR.A.andMasgraveP.B.,PublicEconomicsinTheory andPractice,McGrawHill.
– Stiglitz,J.E.,EconomicsofPublicSector,J.W.Norton&Com- pany.
– Singh,S.K, PublicFinanceinTheoryandPractice,S. Chand&Co.
– Government ofIndia,Ministry ofFinance:EconomicsSurvey(of variousyears).
– RajaJ.Challiah, TowardsSustainableGrowth,EssayinFiscaland
FinancialSectorReformsinIndia, OxfordUniversityPress, Delhi,
1996.
– Deena Khatkhate(ed)., MoneyandFinance:Issue, Institutions,
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Policy,sameekshaTrust,OrientLongman,1998.
– KunalSen&RajenderaR.Vidya(ed.),ProcessofFinancialLib- erationinIndia,OxfordUniversityPress,1997.
– MundelSudipto(ed.)PublicxFinance:PolicyIssueofIndia.
– BrownC.V. andJacksonP.M. (1990), PublicSector Economic, BasilBalackwell,Oxford.
– M.GovindiaRaoandTapanSen(1998),FinancialFederalismin
India.
– AtkinsonA.B.andStightz,J.E.(1980),LecturesonPublicFinance, Tata McGraw Hill.
– Aurrbach,A.J.andM.Feldstern(ed.)(1985),HandbookofPubl;ic
Economics, Vol-I,NorthHolland,Amsterdam.
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M.A.(Economics) 2014-15
Semester-III OPTIONAL PAPER-(i)
MATHEMATICAL ECONOMICS-I
MaximumMarks:100
ExternalExamination:80
InternalAssessment:20
Unit-I
Cardinal and ordinal utility maximization, Sudsy equation; compen- sated demand function; income;
substitution and price effects; Conceptsofelasticities;Consumerservices.
Unit-II
Separableandadditiveutilityfunctions,homogeneousandhomothetic
utilityfunctions;Indirectutilityfunctions;transcendentallogarithmic utilityfunctions;dualitytheorem.
Unit-III
Theoryofrevealedpreferenceandindexnumbers,Linearexpenditure systems;Treatmentofdemandfor
durablegoods, Empiricaldemand functions,Consumerbehaviourunderriskanduncertainty.
Unit-IV
Productionfunction-homogeneous andnon-homogeneous;Lawsre- turn&returntoscale;PropertiesofCobb-
Douglasproductionfunc- tion;CES'VESandTranslog(TL)production;
Note:Thequestionpapershallhavefiveunits.Eachofthefirstfour units will contain two questions and the
students shall be asked to attemptonequestionfromeachunit. Unitfiveshallcontaineightto ten short answer
type questsionswithout any internal choiceand it shall be covering the entire syllabus. As such, unit five
shall be compulsary.
SuggestedReading:
– Allen, R.G.D. (1976), MathematicalEconomics, Macmillan, London. – Matical Economics, Volumes I, II and III, North Holland,
Amsterdam.
– Henderon, J.M. andR.E.Quanete(1980),MicroeconomicTheory.
– Arrow, KJand M. Intrilligator(Eds.) (1982), Handbookof
MathematicalApproach,McGrawHill,NewDelhi.
– Chung, J.W. (1993), UtilityandProduction: Theory and
Applications, BasilBlackwell, London.
– Ferguson, C.E. (1976), Neo-classicalTheoryof Productionand
Distribution.
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M.A.(Economics) 2014-15
Semester-III OPTIONAL PAPER-(ii)
INDUSTRIAL ECONOMICS-I
MaximumMarks:100
ExternalExamination:80
InternalAssessment:20
Unit-I
Frame work and problems of Industrial Economics, Concepts and organizationof a firm-ownership,
controlandobjectiveofthefirm; Passiveandactivebehaviourof thefirm, Market Structure; Sellers
concentration;Productdifferentiation;EntryConditions;Economicof scale; Martketstructure and
profitability; Market structure and innovation.
Unit-II
Theoriesofindustriallocation-WeberandSargentFlorence,Factors affectinglocation; Market Conduct
:Product pricing-Theories and evidence; Investment expenditure methods of evaluating investment
expenditure.
Unit-III
Theories andempiricalon Mergers and acquisitions (M &As) and
diversification.MarketPerformance,Growthofthefirm;constraints on growth; Prodictivity, efficiency and
capacity utilization concepts andmeasurement,Indiansituation.
Unit-IV
Industrialproductivity-measurement,partialandtotaltrends.Pattern of industrialization - Public and
private; large and small industries.
Industrialstructureandeconomicgrowth.EconomicReformsandindustrialgrowth.
Note:Thequestionpapershallhavefiveunits.Eachofthefirstfour units will contain two questions and the
students shall be asked to attemptonequestionfromeachunit. Unitfiveshallcontaineightto ten short answer
type questsionswithout any internal choiceand it shall be covering the entire syllabus. As such, unit five
shall be compulsary.
SuggestedReading:
– Ahluwalia, 1.1. (1985), IndustrialGrowth in India, Oxford
UniversityPress,NewDelhi.
– Barthwal,R.R.(1985),IndustrialEconomics,WileyEasternLtd.
NewDelhi.
– Cheruniliam, F. (1994) IndustrialEconomics:IndianPerspicuity
(3rdEdition),HimalayaPublishingHouse,Mumbai.
– Desai, B. (1999) Industrial Economyin India (3rd Edition) HimalayaPublishingHouseMumbai.
– Divine, P.J. and R.M. Jones etAl (1976), An Introduction to
IndustrialEconomics,GeorgeAllenandUnwinLtd.,London.
– GovernmentofIndia,EconomicSurvey(Annual)
– Hay,D. andD.J. Morris(1976)IndustrialEconomics:Theoryand
EvidenceUniversityPress,NewDelhi.
– KuchalS.C. (1980) Industrial Economyof India (5th Edition), ChaitanyaPublishingHouseAllabad.
– ReserveBankofIndiaReportoncurrencyandFinance(Annual).
– Singh,A.andA.N.Sadhu(1988),IndustrialEconomics,Himalaya, PublishingHouse,Bombay.
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M.A.(Economics) 2014-15
Semester-III OPTIONAL PAPER-(iii)
AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS-I
MaximumMarks:100
ExternalExamination:80
InternalAssessment:20
Unit-I
Agricultural Economicsand Economic Development : Definition of agriculturalEconomics,
itsscopeandnature,Regionaldisparitiesin India agriculture;DifferencebetweenagricultureandIndustry;Need
foraseperatestudyofAgriculturalEconomics.AgricultureandEco-
nomicDevelopment:RoleofagricultureinEconomicDevelopment, Contribution of Industry to the
development of agriculture; Interde- pendenceofagricultureandindustry.
Unit-II
Approaches toAgricultureDevelopment :Schultz, Mellor, Boserup, LewisandRanis-Fie.
Unit-III
EconomicsofAgriculture Production :The ProductionFunction;Fac- tor-Product Relationship; Factor-
Factor Relationship; Product Prod- uctRelationship. Equilibriumof thecapitalist farm, peasant family
farmandsharetenantfarm.
Unit-IV
AnalysisforFarmManagement: The ProductionFunctionApproach; Farm-budgetingApproach. Measures
ofFarm Efficiency; Supply responseinagriculture;SizeofthefarmandProductivityDebate.
Note:Thequestionpapershallhavefiveunits.Eachofthefirstfour units will contain two questions and the
students shall be asked to attemptonequestionfromeachunit. Unitfiveshallcontaineightto ten short answer
type questsionswithout any internal choiceand it shall be covering the entire syllabus. As such, unit five
shall be compulsary. SuggestedReading:
– South-
Worth,H.M.andB.F.Johnston(ed.)AgriculturalDevelopentandEconomicGrowth(CornellUniversityPress,Lo
ndon,1974).
– Heady,E.O.EconomicsofAgriculturalproductionandResources Use(PrenticeHallIndiaLtd.NewDelhi-
1964).
– Schult,T.Z.Transforming TaditionalAgriculture(Yale University Press,1964).
– MetacalfD.TheEconomicsof Agriculture.
– Basu, K.AgrarianStructureandEconomic Under Development (HarwoodAcademic,London,1980).
– Sadhu,A.N. andASingh,AgriculturalProlemsinIndia(Himalaya PublishingHouse,Bombay).
– Mellor, J.W. TheEconomics ofAgriculturaldevelopment (Vora andCo.Bombay,1966).
– Donner,Peter:LandReformsandEconomicDevelopment.
– Kahlon,A.S. andTyagi, D.S.AgriculturalPricePolicy inIndia (AlliedPub.NewDelhi,1983).
– Patnaik,Utsa(ed)AgarianRewlationsandAccumulation.Themode ofproductioninIndia.
– Kaur,RajbansAgriculturalPricePolicyinEconomicDevelopment.
– TheIndianSocietyofAgricultralEconomics,AgriculturalDevel-
opmentinDevelopingCountriesinAsiaandSouthEastAsiasince WorldWarII.
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– Ellis, FrankPeasant Economics (Cambridge University Press,1963).
– BhallaG.S.andY.K.AlaghPerformanceofIndianAgriculturea district-wiseStudy.
– Rao, C.H.H.TechnologicalchangeandDistributionof gains in IndianAgriculture.
– Lehman,Davir(ed)AgrarianReformandAgrarianreformismin India.
– Ghatak,S.andKenIngersentAgricultureandEconomic Develop- ment. – Bilgrami, SARAn Introduction to Agricultural Economics (HimalayaPub.House,Bombay).
– RudraAshokIndianAgriculturalEconomics:MythandRealties (AlliedPub.NewDelhi1982).
– Soni, RN.LeadingIssuesinAgriculturalEconomics(SohanLal Nagin Chand Co.Jalandhar,2006.)
– Khusro,AM.ReadinginagriculturalDevelopment.
– VandanaShivaTheViolenceofGreenDevelopment.
– Frankel,Francis,RIndia'sGrenRevolution,EconomicGainand PoliticalCosts(OUPBombay1971).
– Dantwala,M.L. (ed.)IndianAgricultural DevelopmentsinceInde- pendence.
– Hayami,YandRattan, V.M.AgriculturalDevelopment:AnInter- nationalPersopective.
– ICSSRAlternativeinAgticulturalDevelopment.
– Ellis,F.AgriculturalPoliciesinDevelopingCountries.
– LekhiR.K. &SinghJoginder,Agricultural Economics, KalyaniPublishers,NewDelhi.
– SankhayanP.L.,IntroductiontotheEconomicsofAgriculturalPro-
duction,PrenticeHallofIndiaPrivateLimited,NewDelhi.
– JohlS.S. &KapurT.R.,FundamentalsofFarmBusinessManage- ment,KalyaniPublishers,Ludhiana.
– ReddyS.Subha,RaghuRamP.SastryT.V.Neelakanta&Devi1
Bhavani,AgriculturalEconomics,Oxford&IBHPublishingCo. Pvt.Ltd.,New Delhi
– Acharya S.S. &AggarwalN.L.,AgriculturalPrices–analysisand
policy,Oxford&IBHPublishingCo.Pvt.Ltd.NewDelhi.
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M.A.(Economics) 2014-15
Semester-III OPTIONAL PAPER-(iv)
FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS AND MARKETS-I
MaximumMarks:100
ExternalExamination:80
InternalAssessment:20
Unit-I
Nature and Role of Financial System and Structure of Interest Rates-
Moneyandfinance,Moneyandnear-money,Financialinterme- diationand financial intermediaries, The
structure of the financial development.
Unit-II
EquilibriuminFinancialMarkets -FinancialSystemandEconomic Development, Criteria toevaluateassets
:Riskandfinancialassets, typesofrisk,returnonassets,Risk-Returntradeoff-Valulationof securities.
Unit-III
Theoriesofinterestratedetermination -Levelofinterestrates-Long
periodandShortperiodrates,TermStructureofInterestrates-Theo- riesof interest rates structure,
Expectationaltheory, Segmentation theory;Administeredinterestrates-Appropriateinterestratepolicy.
Unit-IV
Banks,MonetaryPolicyandNon-BankFinancialIntermediaries;Func- tionsof Central Bank-Theaims and
objectivesofthemonetary policy
indevelopedanddevelopingcountries.
Note:Thequestionpapershallhavefiveunits.Eachofthefirstfour units will contain two questions and the
students shall be asked to attemptonequestionfromeachunit. Unitfiveshallcontaineightto ten short answer
type questsionswithout any internal choiceand it shall be covering the entire syllabus. As such, unit five
shall be compulsary.
SuggestedReading:
– Bhole, L.M. (1999), FinancialInstitutions and Markets, Tata McGrawHillCompanyLtd.,NewDelhi
– Bhole, L.M.(2000),IndianFinancialSystem,ChughPublications, Allahabad.
– Edminster,R.O.(1986),FinancialInstitutions,MarketandMan- agement,McGrawHill,NewYork.
– Goldsmith, R.W., (1969), FinancialStructureandDevelopment, YaleLondon.
– Hanson, J.A. andS. Kathuria(Eds.) (1999), India:AFinancial SectorfortheTwenty-firstCentury,
OxfordUniversityPress, New Delhi.
– Karker,P.T.and S.A.Zenios(2000) (Ed.),Performance ofFinan-
cialInstitutions,CambridgeUniversityPress,Cambridge.
– Johnson,H.J. (1993),FinancialInstitutionsandMarkets,McGraw Hill,NewYork.
– KhanM.Y.(1996)- IndianFinancialSystems,Tata McGrawHill, NewDelhi.
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– Machiraju,M.R.(1999),IndianFinancialSystem,VikashPublish- ingHouse,NewDelhi.
– Ohlson, J.A.(1987),TheTheoryofFinancialMarketsandInstitu- tions,NorthHolland,Amsterdam.
– Prasad, K.N. (2001), DevelopmentofIndia's FinancialSystem, Sarup&Sons,New Delhi.
– Robinson, R.I. and D. Wrightman(1981), Financial Markets, McGrawHill,London.
– Smith, P.F. (1978), Moneyand Financial Intermeduation: The Theoryand
– Structureof FinancialSystem, prenticeHall, Englewood-Cliffs, NewJersey.
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M.A.(Economics) 2014-15
Semester-III OPTIONAL PAPER-(v)
ECONOMETRICS-I
MaximumMarks:100
ExternalExamination:80
InternalAssessment:20
Unit-I
Natureandmeaningofeconometries,Differencebetweenmathemati- caleconomics, statistics and
econometrics; Goals of econometrics; classicallinearregressionmodel(Twovariable)Sourcesofdisturbance
terms,assumptionandtheirsignificance,leastsquareestimatorsand theirproperties;Guassmarkov'stheorem.
Unit-II
Generallinearregressionmodel;Definition,assumptions,least-squares estimation,Gauss markov'stheorem;
testing significance ofregression coefficients,conceptsofR2andadjustedR2.
Unit-III
Problemof multicollinearity, autocorrelation and hetroscedasticity:
Nature,consequences,testandremedies(proofsnotrequired)
Unit-IV
SimpleApplicationsofLeastSquare:Estimationofconsumptionfunc- tion,Cobb-
DouglasandCESproductionfunctions,Estimationofsemi-
loganddoublelogfunction;simpleandcompoundratesofgrowth.
Note:Thequestionpapershallhavefiveunits.Eachofthefirstfour units will contain two questions and the
students shall be asked to attemptonequestionfromeachunit. Unitfiveshallcontaineightto ten short answer
type questsionswithout any internal choiceand it shall be covering the entire syllabus. As such, unit five
shall be compulsary.
SuggestedReading:
– GujaratiD.N.(1995),BasicEconometrics(2ndEdition),McGraw Hill,NewDelhi. – Koutsoyiannis, A.(1997),TheoryofEconometrics(2ndEdition), TheMacmillanPressLtd.,London.
– Johnston, J. (1991), EconometricMethods, McGrawHillBook Company, London.
– Maddala,G.S.(1993),EconometricsMethodsandApplictions,(2 Vol.)AlderShot,U.K.
– Krishna K.L.(1997), EconometricsApplicationinindia, Oxford UniversityPress,NewDelhi.
– Kmenta,J.(1997),ElementsofEconometrics,UniversityofMichi- ganPress,NewYork.
– Intrilligator,M.D.(1978),EconometricsTechniquesandApplica- tions,PrenticeHall,NewJersey.
– Pindyck, R.S. andD.L. Rubinfield(1976), EconometricModels
andEconomicForecasts,McGrawHill,Tokyo.
– Frances, P.H. (1998), TimeSeriesModels/or Business andEco-
nomicForecasting,CambridgeUniversityPress,Cambridge.
– Harvey,A.C. (1981),EconometricAnalysisofTimeSeries,Phillip Allen, London.
– Madnani,G.M.K.(1999),IntroductionofEconometrics.
– Intrilligator,M.J.andHasioBadkin(1996),Econometric Models,
TechniquesandApplications,PrenticeHall.
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M.A.(Economics) 2014-15
Semester-III OPTIONAL PAPER-(vi)
OPERATIONS RESEARCH-I
MaximumMarks:100
ExternalExamination:80
InternalAssessment:20
Unit-I
Introduction andHistory of OR, different features of operations re-
searchapproach.Somedefinitions,ScientificmethodsinOR,Models
andModellinginOR.GeneralmethodsforsolvingORModels,meth-
odologyofOR,Basicoperationresearchmodels, computersoftware
foroperationsreaserch.Linearprogramming,structureofLPModel, General Mathematical Model of Linear
programming problem, LP modelformulationof production, marketingfinance,agricultureand
transportation.
Unit-II
GraphicalsolutionmethodsofLPproblems,includingIsoprofit(cost)functionlineapproach.Somespecialcases:Sim
plexmethod,dualityinLPprogrammingprolemanditseconomicinterpretation,difference
betweenprimalanddual,dualsimplexmethod.
Unit-III
Goalprogramming,differencebetweenLPandGPapproach,conceptofgoalprogramming,GPmodelformulation,Gr
aphicalsolutionmethodof GP. Modifiedsimplex methodof goal programming.Alternative
simplexmethodforgoalprogramming.
Unit-IV
Transportation problem, mathematical model of transportation problem, the transportation method,
Methods for finding initial solutionsTestsforoptimality. Note:Thequestionpapershallhavefiveunits.Eachofthefirstfour units will contain two questions and the students shall be asked to attemptonequestionfromeachunit. Unitfiveshallcontaineightto ten short answer type questsionswithout any internal choiceand itshall be covering the entire syllabus. As such, unit five shall be compulsary.
SuggestedReading:
– Taha,Hamdy, A,"OperationsResearch",seventhPearsoneduca- tion.
– Sharma, L.K. "Operations Research" Theory and application, secondedition.
– Kambo,N.S."Mathematicalprogrammingtechniques".
– Kaufmann-A, Methodsand modlesof operations Research. Pretice-
HallInternationalSeriesinmanagement.
– SasieniM.YaspanA.,FriedmonL. OperationsResearch methods. WileyInternationalEdition.
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M.A.(Economics) 2014-15
Semester-III OPTIONAL PAPER-(vii)
MANAGERIAL ECONOMICS-I
MaximumMarks:100
ExternalExamination:80
InternalAssessment:20
Unit-I
MeaningandnatureofManagerialEconomics;Howdoeseconomics
contributetoManagerialfunctions,BusinessdecisionsandEconomic analysis,
thescopeofManagerialEconomics :ApplicationofMicro Economicsto operationalissues, Applicationsof
Macro Economicsto Businessenvironment, Thegapbetweentheoryandpracticeandthe
RoleofManagerialEconomics.
Unit-II
AnalysisofMarketDemand:MeaningofMarketDemand,Typesof Demand, DeterminantsofMarketDemand,
DemandElasticities, im- portanceoftheelasticityconcept,Priceelasticityofdemand,measur- ingprice elasticity
froma Demand function, Determinants of price
elasticityofDemand,Priceelasticityandtotalrevenue,Priceelasticity and marginal revenue, cross-elasticity of
demand, Income-Elasticity ofDemand,ElasticityofPriceExpectations,Promotionalelasticityof sales.
Unit – III
Demandforecasting:whydemandforecasting,Techniquesofdemand forecasting, surveymethods
:completeemuneration, samplesurvey andend-usemethods, opinionpollmethods:Expert-opinionmethod,
Delphi method and market studies andexperiments, statistical methods : Trend projections methods
based on time series data, EconometricMethods.
Unit-iv CostandBreak-evenAnalysis-SomeAccountingandAnalyticalcost concepts;Economiesanddiseconomiesofscale,Break-evenAnalysis :linearandnon-linearcostandRevenuefunctions;ContributionAalysis, ProfitVolume Ratio,MarginofSafety.
Note:Thequestionpapershallhavefiveunits.Eachofthefirstfour units will contain two questions and the
students shall be asked to attemptonequestionfromeachunit. Unitfiveshallcontaineightto ten short answer
type questsionswithout any internal choiceand it shall be covering the entire syllabus. As such, unit five
shall be compulsary.
SuggestedReading:
– HaynesandBenry,ManagerialEconomics
– Baumol,EconomicTheoryandOperationsAnalysis
– Koutsoyiannis, ModernMicroEconomics
– J.Dean,ManagerialEconomics
– Mote,PaulandGpta,ManagerialEconomics
– Biarman&Smith,TheCapitalBudgetingDecisions.
– VarsghneyandMaheswari,ManagerialEconomics
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M.A.(Economics) 2014-15
Semester-IV
ECO 401 INDIAN ECONOMY-II
MaximumMarks:100
ExternalExamination:80
InternalAssessment:20
Unit-I
Agriculture:Roleandfeaturesof Indianagriculture;Technological
changeinagriculture;Trendsinagriculturalproductionsandproduc- tivity;WTOandIndianagriculture.
PovertyinIndia–Absoluteand relativeanalysisofpoverty.
Unit-II
Industry:Grwothandpatternofindustrialization;Newindustrialpolicy and liberalisation– impact on Indian
economy; PublicSector enterprises – trends and performance; Small andcottageindustries;
issuesofprivatization. UnemploymentandMigrationinIndia.
Unit-III
Externalsector:Structureanddirectionofforeigntrade;Balanceof payments;Issuesinexport-
importpolicyandFEMA;Exchangerate policy;ForeigncapitalandMNCsinIndia.
Unit-IV
Environmentas necessity-amenityandpublicgoods; causesof envi- ronmentalandecosystemdegeneration-
policies for controllingpollu- tion-economic and persuasive; their relative effectiveness in LDCs; Relation
betweenpopulation, povertyandenvironment degradation- micro-
planningforenvironmentandecopreservation-watersheds,joint orestmanagementandself-helpgroups.
Note:Thequestionpapershallhavefiveunits.Eachofthefirstfour units will contain two questions and the students shall be asked to attemptonequestionfromeachunit. Unitfiveshallcontaineightto ten short answer type questsionswithout any internal choiceand it shall be covering the entire syllabus. As such, unit five shall be compulsary.
SuggestedReading:
– Sen,R.K.and.Chatterjee(2001),IndianEconomy:Agendafor
21stCentury.
– Dhar, P.K., Indian Economy- Its growing dimensions, Kalyani
Publishers,NewDelhi(LatestEdition)
– Mishra, S.K. andV.K. PuriIndianEconomy- 1stDevelopment
Experience,HimalayaPublishingHouse,Mumbai,LatestEdition.
– EconomicSurveys,GovernmentofIndia,variousissues.
– ReserveBankofIndia,ReportonCurrencyandFinance(Annual).
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M.A.(Economics) 2014-15
Semester-IV
ECO 402 INTERNATIONAL TRADE AND FINANCE-II
MaximumMarks:100
ExternalExamination:80
InternalAssessment:20
Unit-I
Foreigntrademultiplier withand without foreignrepercussions and determination of national income and
output; Relative mertisand demeritsoffixedandflexibleexchangerateinthecontextofgrowth and
development in developing countries. Forms ofeconomic cooperation;
StaticandDynamiceffectsofcustomunionandfreetrade areas.
Unit-II
International Monetary SystemandTrade Policiesin India: Multilateralism
andWTO;riseandfalloffgoldstandardandBretton- wood system; Need, adequacy and determinants of
international reserves; Conditionality clause of IMF; Emerging International
Monetary Systemwith special referenceto PostMaastrishit
developmentsanddevelopingcountries;ReformsoftheInternational
MonetarySystem,Theoryofregionalismatgloballevel–collapseof
Brettonwoodsystem.OptimumcurrencyAreas–Theoryandimpact
inthedevelopedanddevelopingcountries.
Unit-III
Indiananddevelopingcountries;Functions ofGATT/WTO(TRIPS,
TRIMS);Recentchangesinthedirectionandcompositionof tradeand
theirimplication;Rationaleandimpactoftradereformssince1991on balanceofpayments,employmentandgrowth.
Unit-IV
Problems ofIndia's International debt; Working and regulations of
MNCsinIndia,Instrumentofexportpromition andrecentimportand exportpoliciesandagendaforfuture. Note:Thequestionpapershallhavefiveunits.Eachofthefirstfour
units will contain two questions and the students shall be asked to attemptonequestionfromeachunit.
Unitfiveshallcontaineightto ten short answer type questsionswithout any internal choiceand it shall be
covering the entire syllabus. As such, unit five shall be compulsary.
SuggestedReading:
– Bhagwati,J.(Ed.)(1981),InternationalTrade,SelectedReadings,
CambridgeUniversitypress,Massachusetts.
– Carbouth, M. (1999), InternationalEconomics, International ThompsonPublishing,NewYork.
– Chacholiades, M.(1990)International Trade; Theoryand Policy, McGrawHill,Kogakusha,Japan.
– Dana, M.S. (2000), InternationalEconomics : Study Guide and
WorkBook(5thEdition),RutledgePublishers,London.
– Dunn, R.M. and J.H. Mutt (2000), International Economics, RutledgePublishers, London.
– Kenen, P.B. (1994), TheInternational Economy, Cambridge UniversityPress,London.
– Kindleberger,C.P.(1973),InternationalEconomics,R.D.Irwin, Homewood.
– King, P.G. (1995), InternationalEconomics and International
EconomicPolicy:Areader,McGrawHillInternational,Singapore.
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– Krufman,P.R. andM.Obstfeld(1994),InternationalEconomics: TheoryandPolicy,Glenview,Foresman.
– Salvatore,D.(1997),InternationalEconomics,PrenticeHall,Upper SaddleRiver,N.J.NewYork.
– Soderston,BO(1991),InternationalEconomics,TheMacmillan PressLtd.London.
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M.A.(Economics) 2014-15
Semester-IV
ECO 403PUBLIC ECONOMICS-II
MaximumMarks:100
ExternalExamination:80
InternalAssessment:20
Unit-I
FiscalFederalism:Principlesofmulti-unitfinance;principlesofgrant design; India's fiscalfederalism, vertical
andhorizontal imbalances, assignment of functions andsources of revenue; constitutional
provisions;FinanceCommissionsandPlanningCommission.
Unit-II
Centre-Statefinancialrelationsinindia,problemsofState'sresources
andindebtedness;transferofresourcesfromUniontoStatesand,States
toLocalBodies.PublicFinance–Trendsinrevenueandexpenditures oftheCentralandStateGovernments.
Unit-III
FiscalPolicy : Instrumentsandtransmission mechanisms;fiscalpolicy for stabilization-automatic vs.
disctretionarystabilization; various concepts of budgetary deficits; fiscal deficit in India : extend, trend
andimplication.
Unit-IV
Public debts; India's public debt since 1951-growth, composition,
ownershippatternanddebtmanagement.FiscalreformsinIndia.
Note:Thequestionpapershallhavefiveunits.Eachofthefirstfour units will contain two questions and the
students shall be asked to attemptonequestionfromeachunit. Unitfiveshallcontaineightto ten short answer type
questsionswithout any internal choiceand it shall be covering the entire syllabus. As such, unit five shall be
compulsary.
SuggestedReading:
– MasgraveR.A.andMasgraveP.B.,PublicEconomicsinTheory andPractice,McGrawHill.
– Stiglitz,J.E.,EconomicsofPublicSector,J.W.Norton&Company.
– Singh,S.K.,PublicFinanceinTheoryandPractice,S.Chand&Co.
– Government ofIndia,Ministry ofFinance:EconomicsSurvey(of variousyears).
– Raja J. Challiah,Towards SustainableGrowth, Essays inFiscal andFinancialSector
ReformsinIndia,OxfordUniversityPress, Delhi,1996.
– Deena Khatkhate(ed.) Money and Finance, Issue, Institutions,
Policy,SameekshaTrust,OrientLongman,1998.
– KunalSen&RajendraR. Vidya(ed.) Process of Financial
LiberalizationinIndia,OxfordUniversityPress,1997.
– MundalSudipto(ed.)PublicFinance:PolicyIssueofIndia.
– BrownC.V.andJacksonP.M.(1990),PublicSectorEconomics, BasilBalackwell,Oxford.
– M.GovindiaRaoandTapanSen(1998),FinancialFederalismin India.
– AtkinsonA.B.andStightz,J.E.(1980),LecturesonpublicFinance, TataMcgrawHill.
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– Auerbach, A.J. andM. Feldstern(ed.)(1985),Handbookof Public Economics, Vol-
I,NorthHolland,Amsterdam.
– RaghabendraJha(1999), Modern Public Economics, Rotledge, London.
– SrivastavaD.K.(ed.)(2000),FiscalFederalisminIndia,Har-AnandPublicationLtd.NewDelhi.
– Bhargava P.K. (1991), India'sFiscal Critis,Ashish Publishing House,NewDelhi.
– Govt.ofIndia,MinistryofFinance(1988),SarkariaCommissionReportonCentre-StateFinanceRelations.
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M.A.(Economics) 2014-15
Semester-IV
OPTIONAL PAPER-(i)
MATHEMATICAL ECONOMICS-II
MaximumMarks:100
ExternalExamination:80
InternalAssessment:20
Unit-I
Constrainedoptimizationofaproducer,Generalizationofnvariable
case;inputdemandfunction;Addinguptheorem;Technicalprogress throughproductionfunction;Analysisof
jointprofitmaximizationand multiproduct firm; Production possibility curve; Empirical uses of
productionfunctionanalysis.
Unit-II
Ideaofselfdualfunctionalform;derivationofshortrun-longruncost function;Cobb-Douglas(CD)
andTranslog(TL)costfunctions.
Unit-III
Pricedeterminationinperfect competition, monopoly, monopolistic competition, duopoly, oligopoly;
Pricing of factors of production; Bilateral monopoly; Single market equilibrium - Marshallian and
Walrasianequilibriumconditions;Laggedmarketequilibrium:Multi- marketequilibriumsystemofWalras;
Unit-IV
ClassicalandKeynes' macrosystem; Static anddynamic multiplier; Determinants ofinvestment;
Accelerator; trade cycle model of Samuelson and Hicks; harrod problem; Neoclassical model of
growth; Solow and Meade growth models withtechnicalprogress; Optimalgrowth; andgoldenruleof
accumulation. Note:Thequestionpapershallhavefiveunits.Eachofthefirstfour units will contain two questions and the students shall be asked to attemptonequestionfromeachunit. Unitfiveshallcontaineightto ten short answer type questsionswithout any internal choiceand it shall be covering the entire syllabus. As such, unit five shall be
compulsary.
SuggestedReading:
– Allen, R.G.D. (1976), MathematicalEconomics, Macmillan, London.
– Arrow, K.J. and M. Intrilligator(Eds.) (1982), Handbook of MathematicalEconomics,Volumes I, II
andIII, NorthHolland, Amsterdam.
– Henderson,J.M. andR.E. Quandt(1980),MicroeconomicTheory:
AMathematicalApproach,McGrawHill,NewDelhi.
– Chung, J.W. (1993), Utility andProduction : Theory andApplicationsBasilBlackwell, London.
– Ferguson, C.E. (1976), Neo-ClassicalTheoryof Productionand Distribution.
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M.A.(Economics) 2014-15
Semester-IV
OPTIONAL PAPER-(ii)
INDUSTRIAL ECONOMICS-II
MaximumMarks:100
ExternalExamination:80
InternalAssessment:20
Unit-I
MNC and transfer of technology; Liberalization and privatization;
RegionalIndustrialgrowthinIndia;Industrialeconomicconcentration and remedialmeasures; Issuesin
industrialproliferation andenvironment preservation;Pollutioncontrolpolicies.
Unit-II
Industrialfinance;Owned, externalandother components of funds;
Role,nature,volumeandtypesofinstitutionalfinance-IDBI,IFCI, SFCs,SIDC,
commercialbanksetc.financialstatement-BalanceSheet, Profit and LossAccount; assessment of financial
soundness, ratio analysis.
Unit-III
Cost-benefit analysis-Net PresentValue(NPV)andinternalrateof return(IRR)criteria-
balancingprivateandsocialreturns; industrial
labour:Structureofindustriallabour,EmploymentdimensionsofIndian industry;industriallegislation.
Unit-IV
IndustrialLabour-Problems,policiesand reformsinIndia
CurrentProblemsofSelectedIndustries:IronandSteel;CottonTextiles
:Jute:Sugar:Coal,Cementandengineeringgoods;Developmentof small-scaleandcottageindustriesinIndia.
Note:Thequestionpapershallhavefiveunits.Eachofthefirstfour units will contain two questions and the
students shall be asked to attemptonequestionfromeachunit. Unitfiveshallcontaineightto ten short answer
type questsionswithout any internal choiceand it shall be covering the entire syllabus. As such, unit five
shall be compulsary.
SuggestedReading:
– Ahluwalia, I.J. (1985), IndustrialGrowthin India, Oxford UniversityPress,NewDelhi.
– Barthwal,R.R.(1985),IndustrialEconomics,WileyEasternLtd. NewDelhi.
–
Cheruniliam,F.(1994)IndustrialEconomics:Indianpercpectity(3rdEdition),HimalayaPublishingHouse,
Mumbai.
– DesaiB.(1999)IndustrialEconomyinIndia(3rdEdition)Himalaya PblishingHouse,Mumbai.
– Divine, P.J., and R.M. Jones etAl (1976), An Introduction to
IndustrialEconomics,GeorgeAllenandUnwinLtd.,London.
– GovernmentofIndia,EconomicSurvey(Annual).
– Hay,DandD.J.Morris(1976)IndustrialEconomics:Theoryand EvidenceUniversityPress,NewDelhi.
– KuchalS.C. (1980) Industrial Economyof India (5th Edition), ChaitanyaPublishingHouseAllabad.
– ReserveBankofIndiaReportoncurrencyandFinance(Annual)
– Singh,A.andA.N.Sadhu(1988),IndustrialEconomics,Himalaya, PublishingHouse,Bombay.
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M.A.(Economics) 2014-15
Semester-IV
OPTIONAL PAPER-(iii)
AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS-II
MaximumMarks:100
ExternalExamination:80
InternalAssessment:20
Unit-I
Land Reformsin India :Agricultural Development and TenurialConditions;LandReforms-
TheTheoreticalIssues(Meaning,Important changescausedbyLandReformsandObjectivesofLandReforms);
reforms;CeilingonLandHoldings;ImplementationofLandReforms
inIndia.StrategyforDevelopmentofIndianAgriculture:TheGreen Revolution; Factors responsible for Green
Revolution; Economics BenefitsofGreenRevolution;Measuresformaking GreenRevolution all
pervasive;Regionaldisparitiescreated by GreenRevolution;Inter-
farmdisparityinIncome;GreenRevolutionandEmployment.Trends
inMigrationandLabourmarkets;MinimumWagesAct.
Unit-II
TermsofTradebetweenAgricultureandIndustry:Meaning;Impact
ofchangeintermsoftradeinfavourofandagainstagriculture;changes
intermsoftradebetweenagricultureandindustryduringthecourseof
economicdevelopment;Termsoftradebetweenagricultureandindustry
in Indiasince independence.Agricultural Marketing: Need for an efficient systemofagriculturalmarketing;
Efficiencyofagricultural Marketing systemin India; Measures to improve the efficiency of agricultural
marketing in India. Cooperative movement in India- organization structure and developmentof
differenttypesof cooperativesinIndia.
Unit-III AgriculturalCredit:Importanceofagriculturalcredit;Sources(formal andinformal),problemsandGovernmentpoliciessinceIndependence. Capitalformationintheruralsecor-savings,assetsandcredits.Issues inAgriculturepricepolicy. ojectivesofAgriculturalPricePolicy; Main elementsofAgriculturalPricePolicy;AgriculturalPricePolicyinindia;
Itsevolution; objectivesofpricepolicyinIndia;Importantconstituents ofAgriculture Price Policy in India;
Critical Evalutionof India's AgriculturePricePolicy;Needfor revisionofAgriculturalPricePolicy
inIndia.
Unit-IV
TheNewEconomicPolicyandIndianAgriculture:MacroEconomic Stabilization measures;
structuralAdjustments in theAgricultural Sector. WorldTradeOrganization andIndianAgriculture;
Modelof Production Debate : PrivateV/s Public investment inAgriculture;
TrendsinpublicandprivateinvestmentinIndianAgriculture.
Note:Thequestionpapershallhavefiveunits.Eachofthefirstfour units will contain two questions and the
students shall be asked to attemptonequestionfromeachunit. Unitfiveshallcontaineightto ten short answer
type questsionswithout any internal choiceand it shall be covering the entire syllabus. As such, unit five
shall be compulsary.
SuggestedReading:
AssuggestedinSemester3rd.
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M.A.(Economics) 2014-15
Semester-IV
OPTIONAL PAPER-(iv)
FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS AND MARKETS-II
MaximumMarks:100
ExternalExamination:80
InternalAssessment:20
Unit-I
Prolificationof bankingand non-bank financial intermediaries- Effectiveness of monetary Policy -
Credit creation and its control; Profitabilityandefficiencyofbanks.
CommercialbanksandCo-operativebanks.
Unit-II
Development banks- Role and functions; Investment and merchant
banking;FinancialsectorreformsinIndia-Definitionandtypesofnon-
bankfinancialinstitutions:TheirgrowthandimpactonIndia's economic
development,Measurestakentocontroltheiroperations.
Unit-III
Roleofmoneymarketandcapitalmarket:Callmoneymarket,Treasury
billmarket,Commercialbillmarketincludingcommercialpaperand certificateofdeposits,Discountmarket-
Governmentsecuritiesmarket- Marketfor derivation:futureandoptions,andotherderivatives:types, uses and
pricing of derivation- Primary and secondary market of securities.
Unit-IV
SEBI:itsimpactontheworkingofcapitalmarketinIndia;IRDAand itsroleinfinancialmarkets-
Theoryofoptimumcurrencyareas-Euro- dollar and Euro-Currency markets-Their development role at
internationallevel. Note:Thequestionpapershallhavefiveunits.Eachofthefirstfour units will contain two questions and the students shall be asked to attemptonequestionfromeachunit. Unitfiveshallcontaineightto ten short answer type questsionswithout any internal choiceand it shall be covering the entire syllabus. As such, unit five shall be compulsary.
SuggestedReading:
– Bhole, L.M. (1999), FinancialInstitutions and Markets, Tata McGrawHillCompanyLtd.,NewDelhi.
– Bhole, L.M.(2000),IndianFinancialSystem,ChughPublications, Allahabad.
– Edminister, R.O.(1986), Financial Institutions, Marketand Management,McGrawHill,NewYork.
– Goldsmith,R.W.(1969),FinancialStructureandDevelopment,Yale London.
– Hanson, J.A. andS. Kathuria(Eds.)(1999), India :AFinancial SectorfortheTwenty-firstCentury,
OxfordUniversityPress, New Delhi.
– Karker,P.T.andS.A.Zenios(2000)(Ed.),PerformanceofFinancial
Institutions,CambridgeUniversityPress,Cambridge.
– Johnson,H.J.,(1993),FinancialInstitutionsandMarkets,McGraw HillNewYork.
– KhanM.Y. (1996),- IndianFinancialSystems, Tata McGrawHill, NewDelhi.
– Machiraju, M.R. (1999), IndianFinancial System, VikashPublishingHouse,NewDelhi.
– Ohlson, J.A. (1987), TheTheory of Financial Markets and Institutions,NorthHolland,Amsterdam.
– Prasad,–K.N.(2001),DevelopmentofIndia'sFinancialSystem, Sarup&Sons,New Delhi.
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– Robinson, R.I. and D. Wrightman(1981), Financial Markets, McgrawHill,London.
– Smith,P.F.(1978),MoneyandFinancialIntermdiation:TheTheory and
– Structureof FinancialSystem, PrenticeHall, Englewood-Cliffs, NewJersey.
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M.A.(Economics) 2014-15
Semester-IV
OPTIONAL PAPER-(v)
ECONOMETRICS-II
MaximumMarks:100
ExternalExamination:80
InternalAssessment:20
Unit-I
DynamicEconometric Modals:Autoregressiveand distributedlog models-
KoyckModel,AdaptiveexpectationandPartialAdjustment
approachesforrationalizationofKoyckmodels,EstimationofAuto-
regressivemodels,Grangercausalityandexogeneity.
Unit-II
Dummyvariable RegressionModels:TheNatureofDummyvariable,
cautionintheuseofDummyvariables,ANOVAMODELSwithtwo
qualitativevariables,ANCOVMODELS,TheuseofDummyvariables
inseasonalanalysisandInteractionEffects.
Unit-III
Simultaneous equationsmodel:Thesimultaneous equationbiasand
inconsistencyofOLSestimators;Theidentificationproblem;Rulesof identification-
orderandrankconditions(statementonly),Methodsof
estimatingsimultaneousequationsystem:IndirectLeastsquares(ILS),
2SLS(Twostateleastsquares),Leastvariancerationmethod,Sure (seemingly unrelated regression method).
Estimation ofTranslongProductionandTranslogcostfunction.
Unit-IV
Time series Econometrics : Key concepts - stochastic process; stationarity and non
stationarityprocess, purely random process, Randomwalkmodelsco-
integration,Integratedvariables,Deterministic andstochastictrendsandunitroot.
TechniquesofForecasting: ARIMA MODELS, Box - Jenkin Methodology. Note:Thequestionpapershallhavefiveunits.Eachofthefirstfour
units will contain two questions and the students shall be asked to attemptonequestionfromeachunit.
Unitfiveshallcontaineightto ten short answer type questsionswithout any internal choiceand it shall be
covering the entire syllabus. As such, unit five shall be compulsary.
SuggestedReading:
– Gujarati,D.N.(1995),BasicEconometrics(2ndEdition),McGraw Hill,NewDelhi.
– Koutsoyiannis, A.(1997),TheoryofEconometrics(2ndEdition), TheMacmillanPressLtd.,London.
– Johnston, J. (1991), EconometricsMethods, McGrawHillBook Company, London.
– Maddala,G.S.(1993),EconometricsApplications,(2Vol.)Alder Shot,U.K.
– Krishna K.L. (1997), Elementsof EconometricsApplication in India,OxfordUniversityPress,NewDelhi.
– Kmenta, J. (1997), Elementsof Econometrics, University of MichiganPress,NewDelhi.
– Intrilligator, M.D. (1978), EconometricsTechniques and Applications,PrenticeHall,NewJersey.
– Pindyck, R.S. andD.L. Rubinfield(1976), EconometricModels
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andEconomicForecasts,McGrawHill,Tokyo.
– Frances, P.H. (1998), TimeSeries Models/or Business and
EconomicForecasting,CambridgeUniversityPress,Cambridge.
– Harvey,A.C. (1981),EconometricAnalysisofTimeSeries,Phillip Allen, London.
– Madnani,G.M.K.(1999),IntroductionofEconometrics.
– Intrilligator,M.J.andHasioBadkin(1996),Econometric Models, TechniquesandApplications,PrenticeHall.
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M.A.(Economics) 2014-15
Semester-IV
OPTIONAL PAPER-(vi)
OPERATIONS RESEARCH-II
MaximumMarks:100
ExternalExamination:80
InternalAssessment:20
Unit-I
Theoryof games: Introduction, two personzero-sumgames, Pure
strategies,mixedstrategies,Principleofdominance,solutionmethods ofgameswithoutsaddlepoint.
Unit-II
Network models- minimal spanning tree algorithm, shortest route
problem,maximalflowmodel,minimumcostcapacitatedflowproblem, CPMandPERT.
Unit-III
Simulation, steps of simulation process, stochastic simulation and Random numbers, simulation of
inventory problems, simulation of queuingproblems, simulationofinvestmentproblems, simulationof
maintenanceproblems,simulationofpertproblems.
Unit-IV
Sequenching:notation, terminologyandassumption, processingnjobs through two machines, processing n
jobs through 3 machines, processing n jobsthrough m machines,processingtwo jobsthrough m machines.
Note:Thequestionpapershallhavefiveunits.Eachofthefirstfour units will contain two questions and the
students shall be asked to attemptonequestionfromeachunit. Unitfiveshallcontaineightto ten short answer
type questsionswithout any internal choiceand it shall be covering the entire syllabus. As such, unit
five shall be compulsary.
SuggestedReading:
– Taha, Hamdy, A, " Operations Research", seventh Pearsoneducation.
– Sharma,J.K."OperationsResearch"Theoryandapplication,second edition.
– Kambo,N.S."Mathematicalprogrammingtechniques".
– Kaufmann-A,MethodsandmodlesofoperationsResearch.Pretice- HallInternationalSeriesinmanagement.
– SasieniM.YaspanA.,FriedmonL. OperationsResearch methods.
WileyInternationalEdition.
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M.A.(Economics) 2014-15
Semester-IV
OPTIONAL PAPER-(vii)
MANAGERIAL ECONOMICS-II
MaximumMarks:100
ExternalExamination:80
InternalAssessment:20
Unit-I
AlternativeTheories of Firm – Baumol'sTheory of Sales Revenue
maximization,Baumol'sModelwithoutAdvertising, Marris'sTheory
ofmaximizationofGrowthRate;MaximizationofManagerialutility function:Williamson's
Model;TheBehaviouralModelof cyertand March,ConventionalVs.Alternativetheoriesoffirm.
Unit-II
PricingStrategiesandPractices-Cost-pluspricing-make-uppricingand
marginalistRule,MultipleProductPricing, Pricinginlife-cycleofa product,Pricing
inRelationofEstablishedproducts,TransferPricing, CompetitiveBiddingofpriceandPeakLoadPricing.
Unit-III
CapitalBudgeting andinvestment undercertainty-pre-requisitionof
CapitalBudgeting,DeteminingtheoptimumlevelofCapital, InvetmentDecisionsunderCertainty–Pay-
backPeriodMethod,NetPresentValue Method,internalrateofreturncriteria,sourceandcostofcapital.
Unit-IV
GovernmentandMarketEconomy:NeedforGovernmentintervention
inamarket economy,imperfectionsandfailures ofmarket mechanism, marketfailurecharacteristics
andtheroleof Government, Tools of
intervention,RethinkingontheroleofGovernmentunderGlobalisationPrivatisation. Note:Thequestionpapershallhavefiveunits.Eachofthefirstfour units will contain two questions and the students shall be asked to attemptonequestionfromeachunit. Unitfiveshallcontaineightto ten short answer type questsionswithout any internal choiceand it shall be covering the entire syllabus. As such, unit five shall be compulsary.
SuggestedReading:
– HaynesandBenry,ManagerialEconomics
– Baumol,EconomicTheoryandOperationsAnalysis
– Koutsoyiannis, ModernMicroEconomics
– J.Dean,ManagerialEconomics
– Mote,PaulandGpta,ManagerialEconomics
– Biarman&Smith,TheCapitalBudgetingDecisions.
– VarsghneyandMaheswari,ManagerialEconomics