Dr Samyukta Bhupatiraju is an Assistant Professor of Economics at the School of Interwoven Arts and Sciences. Her key areas of interest are Development Economics and Applied Econometrics. She is also interested in Network Economics.
She holds a PhD in Economics from United Nations University – MERIT & Maastricht University (The Netherlands), an Advanced Certificate from the Kiel Institute for the World Economy (Germany) and an MA in Economics from University of Hyderabad.
She has previously worked at Mahindra University and Tata Institute of Social Sciences (Mumbai and Hyderabad). She was also an ICSSR Postdoctoral Fellow at the School of Economics, University of Hyderabad.
The focus of her PhD was on the geographic dimensions of growth and development. Since then, she has worked on a variety of issues. Her most recent work focuses on the intersection between finance and development. She has also worked on the development experiences of Latin American economies.
Areas of Interest and Expertise:
Development Economics
Macroeconomics and Finance
Network Economics
- Govindapuram, S., Bhupatiraju, S., & Sirohi, R. A. (2023). Determinants of women’s financial inclusion: evidence from India. Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics, 94(1), 131-158.
- Bhupatiraju, S., (2021). Fertility and Financial Development: An analysis of Indian Households, Quantity and Quality, 56(2), pp. 589-606.
- Kothakapa, G., Bhupatiraju, S., & Sirohi, R. A., (2020). Revisiting the link between financial development and Industrialization: evidence from low and middle income countries, Annals of Finance, 1-16.
- Bhupatiraju, S., (2020). Multi-level determinants of inward FDI ownership, Journal of Quantitative Economics, 18(2), 327-358.
- Bhupatiraju,S., and Sirohi, R. A., (2018) From Neoliberalism to Post-Neoliberalism: Dilemmas, Strategies and Tactics of the Latin American Left, Social Scientist, Vol 46, Nos 7-8, 41-54.
- Bhupatiraju,S., and Sirohi, R. A., (2017). Is the “Pink Tide” Ebbing?: Achievements and Limitations of the Latin American Left, Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. 52, No. 6, pp 34-41.
- Bhupatiraju,S., Nomaler,O¨ ., Triulzi, G., and Verspagen, B., (2012). Knowledge flows Analyzing the core literature of innovation, entrepreneurship and science and technology studies, Research Policy, 41 (7), 1205-1218.
Books
Sirohi, R. A., & Bhupatiraju, S. (2020). Reassessing the Pink Tide: Lessons from Brazil and Venezuela. Springer Nature.
Working Papers
- Bhupatiraju. S., and Sirohi. R. A., (2022). Does Caste Shape Access to Water? An Empirical Investigation, (Submitted)
- Bhupatiraju, S., (2014). The geographic dimensions of institutions, UNU-MERIT Working Paper 2014-086.
- Bhupatiraju, S., Verspagen, B., (2013). Economic development, growth, institutions and geography, UNU-MERIT Working Paper 2013-056.
- Bhupatiraju, S., Verspagen, B., and Ziesemer, T., (2013). Summarizing large spatial datasets: Spatial principal components and spatial canonical correlation, UNU-MERIT Working Paper 2013-011.
