Dr Seema Narayan

Position

Senior Lecturer

School /
Work Unit

Economics, Finance and Marketing

Contact Details

+(61 3) 9925 5890

seema.narayan@rmit edu au

Location

Building: 80
Level: 11
Room: 90

City Campus

College/Portfolio

Business

Seema Narayan

Qualifications

Ph.D (economics and econometrics), Monash University, 2009.

Teaching

  1. Prices and Markets
  2. Development Economics

Research Interests

Applied Macroeconomics; Financial Economics; Development Economics; and Time series and Panel Econometric Analysis.

Research Projects and Funding

  1. College of Business Publication Grant of $4500 in 2012.
  2. School of Economics, Finance and Marketing, Learning and Teaching Grant of $4500 in 2012.
  3. College of Business - Career Interruption Fellowship of $36,000 in 2010.
  4. School of Economics, Finance and Marketing Seeding Grant of $5000 in 2010.

Publications 2011-2007

Major Publications:

  1. P. K. Narayan, S. Mishra and Seema Narayan (2011). Do market capitalization and stocks traded converge? New global evidence. Journal of Banking and Finance, 35(10, 2771-2781.
  2. P. K. Narayan, Seema Narayan and S. Popp (2011). Investigating price clustering in the oil futures market. Applied Energy, 88, 397-402.
  3. P. K. Narayan, R. Smyth and Seema Narayan. (2011). Is OECD Health Care a Luxury or a Necessity? New Evidence From Panel Cointegration Modeling, Applied Economics, 43 (25). 3631-3643.
  4. P. K. Narayan, Seema Narayan and S. Mishra (2011) Do Remittances Induce Inflation? Fresh Evidence from Developing Countries. Southern Economic Journal. 77(4), 914-933.
  5. P. K. Narayan, Seema Narayan and R. Smyth (2011). Energy Consumption at Business Cycle Horizons: The Case of the United States, Energy Economics, 33(2), 161-167.
  6. P. K. Narayan and Seema Narayan. (2011) Are Shocks to National Income Persistent? New Global Evidence, Journal of Economic Studies, 38 (2), 218 - 230.
  7. P. K. Narayan, Seema Narayan, and R. Smyth (2011) Does democracy facilitate economic growth or does economic growth facilitate democracy? An empirical study of Sub-Saharan Africa. Economic Modelling, 28, 900-910.
  8. P. K. Narayan and Seema Narayan (2010) Modelling the Impact of Oil Prices on Vietnam’s Stock Prices. Applied Energy. 87(1), 356-361.
  9. P. K. Narayan, Seema Narayan and X. Zheng (2010) Gold and Oil Futures Markets: Are Markets Efficient? Applied Energy. 87 (2010) 3299–3303
  10. P. K. Narayan, Seema Narayan and S. Popp (2010) A note on the long-run elasticities from the energy consumption–GDP relationship. Applied Energy, 87(3), 1054-1057
  11. P. K. Narayan, Seema Narayan, S. Popp and M. D’Rosario, (2010) Share Price clustering, International Review of Financial Analysis, 20, 113-119.
  12. *P. K. Narayan and Seema Narayan (2010) Testing for capital mobility: New evidence from a panel of G7 countries. Research in International Business and Finance. 2010. 24(1), 15-23.
  13. *P. K. Narayan and Seema Narayan (2010) Carbon Dioxide Emissions and Economic Growth: Panel Data Evidence from Developing Countries. Energy Policy. 38(1), 661-666.
  14. P. K. Narayan and Seema Narayan (2010). Are Business Cycles Stationary Fluctuations Around a Deterministic Trend? Empirical Evidence from 79 Developing Countries, International Review of Applied Economics, 24(6), 1465-3486.
  15. P. K. Narayan, S. Popp and Seema Narayan (2010) Does Electricity Consumption Panel Granger cause GDP? A New Global Evidence, Applied Energy, 87(10)
  16. P. K. Narayan, Seema Narayan and S. Popp (2010) Energy consumption at the state level: The unit root null hypothesis from Australia. Applied Energy, 87(6), June 2010, Pages 1953-1962
  17. P. K. Narayan and Seema Narayan (2010) Is there a unit root in the inflation rate? New Evidence from panel data models with multiple structural breaks, Applied Economics, 42, 1661-1670.
  18. P. K. Narayan, Seema Narayan and Arti Prasad (2009) Evidence on PPP from a cointegration test with multiple structural breaks. Applied Economics Letters. 2009, 16(1), 5-8.
  19. Seema Narayan (2009) A Survey on Dynamics of Current Account Imbalances. The Indian Economic Journal. 57(3), Oct-Dec, 3-26.
  20. P. K. Narayan and Seema Narayan (2009) Understanding Fiji’s declining foreign reserves position. Pacific Economic Bulletin. 24(2), 95-112.
  21. P. K. Narayan, V. Mishra and Seema Narayan (2009) Estimating money demand functions for South Asian countries. Empirical Economics. 36 (3).
  22. P. K. Narayan, Seema Narayan and R. Smyth (2009) Understanding the inflation-output nexus for China. China Economic Review. 20(1), 82-90. P
  23. P. K. Narayan and Seema Narayan (2007) Are real exchange rates nonlinear with a unit root? Evidence on PPP for Italy: A Note, Applied Economics. 39(19), 2483-2488.
  24. P. K. Narayan, Seema Narayan and R. Smyth (2008) Are Oil Shocks Permanent or Temporary? Evidence from Crude Oil and LNG Production in 60 Countries Energy Economics. 30 (3), 919-936.
  25. P. K. Narayan, Seema Narayan and A. Prasad (2008) Understanding the oil price-exchange rate nexus for Fiji Islands. Energy Economics. 30 (5), 2686-2696.
  26. P. K. Narayan and Seema Narayan, (2008) Does Environmental Quality Influence Health Expenditures? Empirical Evidence from a Panel of Selected OECD Countries. Ecological Economics. 65 (2), 367-374.
  27. P. K. Narayan, Seema Narayan and S. Mishra (2008) Investigating the Relationship between Health and Economic Growth: Empirical Evidence from a Panel of 5 Asian Countries. Journal of Asian Economics, 21(4), August, 404-411.
  28. P. K. Narayan and Seema Narayan (2008) The role of permanent and transitory shocks in explaining international health expenditures. Health Economics, 17 (10), 1171-1186.
  29. P. K. Narayan and Seema Narayan (2008) Examining the Asymmetric Behaviour of Macroeconomic Aggregates for Emerging Asian Economies. Pacific Economic Review. 5 (December), 567-574.
  30. P. K. Narayan and Seema Narayan (2008) Does Military Expenditure Determine Fiji's Exploding Debt Levels? Defence and Peace Economics. 19(1), 77-87.
  31. Seema Narayan and R. Smyth (2008) Unit Roots and Structural Breaks in PNG Macroeconomic Time Series. International Journal of Social Economics., 35 (12), 963-984.
  32. P. K. Narayan, Seema Narayan and B. Prasad (2008) Forecasting Fiji’s exports and imports, 2003-2020. International Journal of Social Economics. 35 (12), 1005-1016.
  33. P. K. Narayan, Seema Narayan and A. Prasad (2008) A structural VAR analysis of electricity consumption and real GDP: Evidence from the G7 countries. Energy Policy, 36 (7), 2765-2769. P. K. Narayan and Seema Narayan (2008) Do Permanent shocks explain income level? A common cycle-common trend analysis of regional income levels for China. Pacific Economic Review. 13 (5), 656-662. P. K. Narayan and Seema Narayan (2007) Mean Reversion in Stock Prices: New Evidence from Panel Unit Root Tests Studies in Economics and Finance. 24(3), 233-244.
  34. P. K. Narayan and Seema Narayan (2007) Modelling oil price volatility. Energy Policy. 35 (12), 6549-6553.
  35. P. K. Narayan and Seema Narayan (2007) Understanding Asymmetries in Macroeconomic Aggregates: The Case of Singapore Applied Economics Letters. 14 (12), 905-908.

Working Papers

  1. Seema Narayan and Narayan, P.K. (2011) Did the US Macroeconomic Conditions Affect Asian Stock Markets? Financial Econometrics Series, Deakin University, Faculty of Business and Law, School of Accounting, Economics and Finance.
  2. Narayan, P.K. and Seema Narayan (2011) The inflation-output nexus: empirical evidence from India, Brazil and South Africa, Financial Econometrics Series, No 2011_06, Deakin University, Faculty of Business and Law, School of Accounting, Economics and Finance.
  3. Narayan, P.K. and Seema Narayan (2011) The importance of real and nominal shocks on the UK housing market No 2011_05, Financial Econometrics Series, Deakin University, Faculty of Business and Law, School of Accounting, Economics and Finance.
  4. Narayan, P.K. and Seema Narayan (2011) Has the structural break slowed down growth rates of stock markets? No 2011_10, Economic Series, Deakin University, Faculty of Business and Law, School of Accounting, Economics and Finance.
  5. Narayan, P.K., Seema Narayan and Xinwei Zheng (2010) Gold and Oil Futures Markets: Are Markets Efficient? No 2010_13, Economic Series, Deakin University, Faculty of Business and Law, School of Accounting, Economics and Finance
  6. Seema Narayan, Narayan, P.K., Mishra. S (2011) Investigating the Relationship between Health and Economic Growth: Empirical Evidence from a Panel of 5 Asian Countries. No 2010_08, Economic Series, Deakin University, Faculty of Business and Law, School of Accounting, Economics and Finance.
  7. Seema Narayan, Narayan, P.K., Smyth, R. (2007) Does Democracy Facilitate Economic Growth or Does Economic Growth Facilitate Democracy? An Empirical Study Of Sub-Saharan Africa, No 10-07, Monash Economics Working Papers from Monash University, Department of Economics.

Conferences Papers/Publications:

  1. Did the US Macroeconomic Conditions Affect Asian Stock Markets? Co-authored with Paresh Narayan. Presented this paper at Journal of Asian Economics and American Committee for Asian Economic Studies (JAE/ACAES) Conference in Kyoto, Japan, 4-6 March 2010.
  2. Business Cycle Synchronization between the US, NZ and Australia. Presented this paper at the Irish Economic Association (IEA): 23rd annual Conference, Co Cork, Ireland, 24-26 April, 2009.