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Jadhav Chakradhar

Jadhav Chakradhar

Assistant Professor

Area:
 International Trade, Economic and Policy Uncertainty, Fisheries Subsidies, Corporate Social Responsibility, Firm Financial Performance, and Labour Market Discrimination.

Qualification:
MA; (PhD)

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Brief Profile

Jadhav Chakradhar is currently working as an Assistant Professor at the Centre for Economic and Social Studies (CESS), Hyderabad. Before joining CESS Hyderabad, he worked at PES University, Bangalore, as an Assistant Professor of Economics and as a  Research Associate at the Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Bangalore. He has taught at the levels of masters and doctoral programmes at CESS Hyderabad and PES University Bangalore. Some of the main courses which he has taught are microeconomics, macroeconomics, advanced macroeconomics, international trade, development economics, econometrics, and applied econometrics. He was associated with United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP) for providing consultancy services regarding international trade and fisheries subsidies. He was invited several times as a resource person at UNESCAP, Bangkok, Thailand, for different workshops and training programmes. His area of interest in research includes international trade, economic and policy uncertainty, fisheries subsidies, corporate social responsibility, firm financial performance, and labor market discrimination. He has also published his work in top-rated journals, including Singapore Economic Review, Marine Policy, Business and Society Review, etc. He has presented his research output at several national and international academic forums, including the Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Bangalore, Indian Institute of Foreign Trade (IIFT), Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Jammu, Vietnam National University (VNU), Asia-Pacific Applied Economics Association (APAEA) University of Adelaide (Australia) and UNCTAD/UNESCAP.

He has attended prestigious summer schools and workshops conducted by the South Asian Network on Economic Modelling (SANEM), UNCTAD, UNESCAP, International Growth Centre (IGC), Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation (CAREC), UNCTAD-YSI, Asian Development Bank (ADB), LeBow College of Business, Drexel University, Indian Statistical Institute (ISI), Bangalore and EXIM Bank and RIS.

Currently, he is in the editorial board member of the International Journal of Business and Economics Research. He is also a reviewer for Singapore Economic Review (SER), Humanities and Social Sciences Communications (Nature), Emerging Markets Finance and Trade (Taylor and Francis), Financial Innovation (Springer), and FIIB Business Review (Sage), etc.

He frequently writes to newspapers on contemporary issues focused on international trade, the economics of reservation, innovation, and macroeconomics.

Recently, he received ICMAI best paper award on the theme of Financial Management in a conference held at IIM Jammu and the University of Bradford, UK. He has also received the best paper award at ICBIT- 2022 international conference conducted by Management Development Institute (MDI), Murshidabad.

Research Interest

International trade: trade in agriculture, trade cost, regional trade agreements: labour market: discrimination in the labour market, CSR, Economic, and policy uncertainty.

Resource Person

  • ESCAP/ISO/UNCTAD Workshop on “Non-Tariff Measures and International
    Standards for Sustainable Development” 13-14 March 2019, Bangkok, Thailand.
  • Evidence-Based Trade Policy Making for Sustainable Development, Organised by UNCTAD/ESCAP-ARTNet, 26-30, November 2018, Bangkok, Thailand.
  • Delivered lecture (online) on theoretical and application of the gravity model to the MA Business Economics Semester, Department of Data Science, Christ (Deemed to be University), Lavasa, Maharashtra, India, 11-14 May 2021.
  • Delivered a lecture on Career Council for 12th Pass out Batch, 2022, at Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya (JNV), Landiguda, Koraput (Odisha), on 31st July 2022.

Awards and Acheivements

  • Received mini-grant(1200 $USD) from UNESCAP- Bangkok for Working on Fishery subsidies and NTMs from September 2017 to January2018.
  • Qualified State Eligibility Test and 
  • NET (National Eligibility Test) in Economics
  • Received ICSSR Doctoral Fellowship for pursuing Ph.D. in Economics at Institute for Social and Economic Change, Bangalore. 
  • Jadhav Chakradhar and Arun Kumar; Presented paper “Zone-wise variations of employment probabilities and occupational choices in the Indian manufacturing sector” at 13th BMEB International conference on “Maintaining Stability, Strengthening Momentum of Growth Amidst High Uncertainties in Digital Era,” in collaboration with the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the Asia-Pacific Applied Economics Association (APAEA), the conference was held in Bali, Indonesia on August 29-30, 2019. Received full funding to attend the conference (1000 USD$).
  • Received “ICMAI Best Paper Award” on the theme of “Financial Management” during the “First International Conference on Sustainable Finance, Economics & Accounting in the Pre- and Post- Pandemic Era” from July 30-31, 2021. Jointly organized by the Indian Institute of Management, Jammu (IIM_J), India, and the University of Bradford, UK. Intl conference by IIM Jammu & University of Bradford concludes – Jammu Kashmir Latest News | Tourism | Breaking News J&K (dailyexcelsior.com).
  • Received “Best Paper Award” at International Conference on Business, IT, And Enterprise Architecture (ICBIT 2022), conducted by Management Development Institute (MDI), Murshidabad, from 16th and 17th December 2022.

Current Projects

  1. Determinates of Child marriages: evidence from the young lives data, Research team Member under Young Lives Project.

Publications

  • Selected Publications

Kumar, R., Kumar, R. R., Stauvermann, P. J., &Chakradhar, J. (2019). The effectiveness of fisheries subsidies as a trade policy tool to achieving sustainable
Development goals at the WTO. Marine Policy, 100(June), 132–140.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpol.2018.11.034 (Elsevier), (Indexed in ABDC A Scopus and UGC list), impact factor-4.173

Kumar, R. and Chakradhar, J., (2019), “An assessment of fishing vessel capacity on subsidies, non-tariff measures, and attaining Sustainable Development Goals”,

ARTNeT Working Paper Series, No. 184, May 2019, Bangkok, ESCAP (United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific).

https://artnet.unescap.org/publications/working-papers/assessment-fishing-vesselcapacity-subsidies-non-tariff-measures-and.

Bairwa, Arun Kumar., Jadhav Chakradhar, and Pritee Sharma. “Employment Discrimination in Indian Manufacturing Industries: A Logistic Analysis.” The Singapore Economic Review, Nov. 2019, DOI.org (Crossref),https://www.worldscientific.com/doi/abs/10.1142/S021759081944003X.World Scientific Publication. Indexing: SSCI, Scopus, ABDC: B, UGC. ISSN (print): 0217-5908. Scopus CiteScore: 0.9. Impact Factor: 1.18

Jadhav Chakradhar, andBairwa, Arun Kumar. “Employment probabilities and workforce distribution in Indian manufacturing sector: A state-level analysis” Bulletin of Monetary Economics and Banking, vol. 23, no. 1, Feb 2020, pp 55-82. DOI: https://doi.org/10.21098/bemp.v23i1.1293Bank of Indonesia Publication. Indexing: Scopus, ABDC:C, UGC.

Radika Kumar and Jadhav Chakradhar and Neil Balchin “Unpacking the Possible Elements of a Future Digital Trade Agreement on Digitalization and Economic Growth: Insights from Panel Data Analysis,” UNESCAP-ARTNet working paper, 2020. https://www.unescap.org/sites/default/files/4%20FinalTeam%20Radika%20Kumar-UK.pdf. 

Gupta, R., & Chakradhar, J. (2022). The consequences of mandatory corporate social responsibility expenditure: Empirical evidence from India. Business and Society Review, 127(1), 49–68 (Wiley publisher) https://doi.org/10.1111/basr.12251.  Indexing: Scopus, ABDC: B, UGC.

Chakradhar, J. and Thanh Thao, T. (2022). The Impact of Participating in The Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) Agreement and Potential Export Markets for Vietnamese Rice: An Application of Augmented Gravity Model, Proceedings of the 10th Conference on International Economic Cooperation and Integration (CIECI 2022) International Economic Integration: A Journey to The New-Generation FTA’s. Vietnam National University Press, Hanoi, Vietnam. https://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/folders/1xA7QucwRICT_d03A4HS6ai_rjITVyAJh

Editorials in Reputed Newspapers

Jadhav Chakradhar and Radika Kumar (2018, August 10). Trump’s tariff tantrums: will India benefit or lose? Deccan Herald. P. 10. Retrieved from

https://www.deccanherald.com/opinion/panorama/trump-s-tariff-tantrums-will-686690.html.

Chakradhar, Jadhav., &Bairwa, Arun. Kumar. (2019, January 17). 10% reservation for General Category: The fatal blow. Deccan Herald. P. 10. Retrieved from https://www.deccanherald.com/opinion/main-article/fatal-blow-713571.html.

Bairwa, Arun. Kumar., & Chakradhar, Jadhav. (2019, February 12). Economics of reservation. Telangana Today, p. 8. Retrieved from https://telanganatoday.com/economics-of-reservation.

Jadhav Chakradhar &Medha A S (2020, May 23). 20 lakh crore packages: Stimulus or frivolous? Hans India. P. 6. Retrieved fromhttps://www.thehansindia.com/hans/opinion/news-analysis/20-lakh-crore-package-stimulus-or-frivolous-624024.

K L N Sastry and Jadhav Chakradhar (04 November 2022). India holds immense potential to emerge as innovation leader. https://www.dailypioneer.com/2022/state-editions/india-holds-immense-potential-to-emerge-as-innovation-leader.html.

Conferences / Seminars

  • Jadhav Chakradhar, Arun B Chandran and Aneesh Chitgupi, “An analysis of Climate Change Effect on Rice Yield in Andhra Pradesh” international conference on “Climate Change and Food Security: The Global and Indian Contexts” organized by Centre for Ecological Economics and Natural Resources (CEENR), Institute for Social and Economic Change (ISEC), Bangalore, in association with University of Sydney, Australia, held on February 18, 2015. India.
  • Jadhav Chakradhar and Dr. A V Manjunatha, “Market Integration and Measurement of Potential Agricultural Trade: An Application of Stochastic Frontier Gravity Model “International conference on “WTO, Trade, and Agricultural: Issues and Challenges for the Developing Countries and Least Developed Countries” held during 20-21 October 2016 at New Delhi, India.
  • Peddi Dayakar and Jadhav Chakradhar, “An empirical analysis of Indian stock market in response to union budget- a sector-wise analysis” in the 53rd annual conference of The Indian Econometric Society (TIES) held at National Institute of Science Education and Research (NISER), Khordha, Odisha, India from 22-24th December 2016.
  • Jadhav Chakradhar and Dr. S.Madheswaran, “Untapped Potential Trade relations between Thailand and India: Application of Gravity Model” presented in the NRCT-ICSSR Joint Seminar on “India and Thailand Bond: Past, Present and Future” held at Chiang Mai, Thailand, 20-24 February 2017.
  • Jadhav Chakradhar and Dr. A V Manjunatha, “Democracy and Trade: An Application of Gravity Model” presented in a National Conference on Finance & Applied Economics 2017″ organized in association with TIES, in Pune, India, from 6-8 October 2017.
  • Radika Kumar and Jadhav Chakradhar “The effectiveness of fisheries subsidies as a trade policy tool to achieving sustainable development goals at the WTO” in an international conference on “WTO, Trade, and Agricultural: Issues and Challenges for the Developing Countries and Least Developed Countries” held during 10-12 October 2018 at New Delhi, India.
  • Jadhav Chakradhar and Radika Kumar “Disciplines of Fisheries Subsidies Negotiations: An Assessment of Fishing Vessel Capacity on Subsidies and Non-Tariff Measures” at Regional Workshop on “Evidence-Based Trade Policy Making for Sustainable Development” Organised by UNCTAD/ESCAP-ARTNet, 26-30 November 2018 in Bangkok, Thailand.
  • Jadhav Chakradhar “The Effect of Economic Distance and Trade Cost on India’s Trade Flows: An Application Modified Panel Gravity Model, Presented at Centre for Economics and Social Studies (CESS), CESS seminar series on 14th May 2019.
  • Jadhav Chakradhar and Arun Kumar “Zone-wise variations of employment probabilities and occupational choices in the Indian manufacturing sector” Presented at 13th BMEB International conference on “Maintaining Stability, Strengthening Momentum of Growth Amidst High Uncertainties in Digital Era,” in collaboration with the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the Asia-Pacific Applied Economics Association (APAEA), the conference was held in Bali, Indonesia on August 29-30, 2019.
  • Radika Kumar and Jadhav Chakradhar and Neil Balchin,“Unpacking the Possible Elements of a Future Digital Trade Agreement on Digitalization and Economic Growth: Insights from Panel Data Analysis,” presented at Policy Hackathon on Model Provisions for Trade in Times of Crisis and Pandemic in Regional and other Trade Agreements, organized by UNESCAP-ARTNet, WTO and CUTS, held during 8-23 June 2020 23 JUL 2020 Bangkok, Thailand (Online).
  • Jadhav Chakradhar and Ritika Gupta participated and presented the paper titled Corporate Social Responsibility and Firm Financial Performance: A Moderating Effect of Economic Policy Uncertainty presented in the “First Virtual International Conference on Sustainable Finance, Economics & Accounting in the Pre- and Post- Pandemic Era” on July 30-31, 2021. It has been conferred with the “ICMAI Best Paper Award” on the theme of “Financial Management”.
  • Jadhav Chakradhar and Ritika Gupta “The Nexus between Firm Financial Performance Corporate Social Responsibility: A Moderating Effect of Economic Policy Uncertainty, presented in the XVI International Conference on Public Policy & Management, on 23rd -24th August 2021, organized by Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore (IIM_B), India.
  • Jadhav Chakradhar and Ritika Gupta, “Economic Policy Uncertainty and Firm Financial Performance: Empirical Evidence from India” presented in the 3rd Rajagiri Conference on Economics and Finance (RCEF 2021) Organised by Rajagiri Business School and Rajagiri College of Social Sciences (Autonomous) in Association with The Indian Econometric Society (TIES) and Waikato Management School, University of Waikato, New Zealand, on 19th -20th November 2021.
  • Jadhav Chakradhar and Ritika Gupta, “Heterogeneous effects of Economic Policy Uncertainty on Firm Financial Performance: Evidence from NIFTY 100 firms, presented at Journal of Asian Economics Special Issue on Monetary Policy Issues and Challenges for Asian Economies Virtual International Conference, December 16-17, 2021, organized by Asia-Pacific Applied Economics Association (APAEA), Indonesia.
  • Jadhav Chakradhar and Trinh Thanh Thao, “The Impact of Participating in the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) Agreement and Potential Export Markets for Vietnamese Rice: An Application of Augmented Gravity Model”, presented in the international conference on International Economic Integration: Journey to The New-Generation FTAs” (CIECI 2022), 25th November, 2022, organized by VNU University of Economics and Business (Vietnam) and co-organized by the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom (FNF) and the University of Adelaide (Australia), Vietnam.
  • Jadhav Chakradhar, “Does Linder Hypothesis hold for India’s Services Trade: An Application of Poisson Pseudo-Maximum Likelihood (PPML) Method, presented in theInternational Conference on Business, IT, And Enterprise Architecture (ICBIT 2022), conducted by Management Development Institute (MDI), Murshidabad, from 16th and 17th December 2022.

Workshops and Training Programmes - National

  • Participated in workshop on “Climate Change and Agriculture in India,” held at the Indian Statistical Institute (ISI), Bangalore Centre, on March 28, 2016.
  • Participated in Orientation Programme for Research Scholar and Faculty members in Social Sciences, Organized by GIDS (Giri Institute of Development Studies), Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India during 23-26, 2016.
  • Participated in RIS Summer School (Research and Information System for Developing Countries) on “International Trade Theory and Practices,” held in New Delhi from 6-10 June 2016.
  • Participated in EXIM Bank and RIS (Research and Information System for Developing Countries) Summer School on International Trade Theory and Practices, held at New Delhi from 19-24 July 2017.
  • Participated in the Regional Conclave on “ASEAN@50 and India-ASEAN Relations” organized by International Strategic and Security Studies Programme of National Institute of Advanced Studies and Southeast Asia Research Group of University of Delhi at NIAS, Bengaluru, India on 7-8 December 2017.
  • Participated in one week 2nd IGC Patna Summer School in Development Economics organized by London School of Economics (LSE) and University of Oxford, along with the Centre for Development Studies (CDS) Thiruvananthapuram and Indian Institute of Management (IIM), during 9th – 14th August 2020.
  • Participated in a six-day long online workshop on ‘Panel Data Analysis’ organized by the Department of Humanities, Delhi Technological University held from 17th– 22nd August 2020, New Delhi, India.

Workshops and Training Programmes - International

  • Participated in “10th South Asian Training Program on CGE (Computable General Equilibrium) Modelling,” from August 12-16, 2017, organized by South Asian Network on Economic Modelling (SANEM), Dhaka, South Asia Watch on Trade, Economics and Environment (SAWTEE), Kathmandu, and the Centre for WTO Studies (CWS), New Delhi, in Cox-Bazar, Bangladesh.

 

  • Participated in a one-day workshop on “Contemporary Rural Issues in India”, on March 27, 2018, organised by the Economic Analysis Unit, Indian Statistical Institute, Bangalore Centre.

 

  • Participated in Capacity Building Workshop on “Non-Tariff Measures: Economic Assessment and Policy options for Development” Organised by UNCTAD/ESCAP-ARTNet, 3-6 July 2018, Bangkok, Thailand.

 

  • Participated in Regional Workshop on Evidence-Based Trade Policy Making for Sustainable Development 27 Nov 2018 to 30 Nov 2018 Bangkok, Thailand.

 

  • Participated in “ESCAP-ARTNeT Capacity Building Workshop on “A Short Course on Trade Analysis Using R Studio, 29 – 30 November 2018, Bangkok, Thailand.

 

  • Attended UNESCAP/ISO/UNCTAD Workshop on “Non-Tariff Measures and International Standards for Sustainable Development” 13 – 14 March 2019, Bangkok, Thailand.

 

  • Participated in one week 2nd IGC Patna Summer School in Development Economics organized by London School of Economics (LSE) and University of Oxford, along with the Centre for Development Studies (CDS) Thiruvananthapuram and Indian Institute of Management, Shillong (IIM_S), during 9th – 14th August 2020.

 

  • Participated in a six-day long online workshop on ‘Panel Data Analysis’ organized by the Department of Humanities, Delhi Technological University, held from 17th– 22nd August 2020, New Delhi, India.

 

  • Participated in a five-day virtual workshop on ‘input-output analysis’ organized byCentral Asia Regional Economic Cooperation (CAREC) Institute in collaboration with the Asian Development Bank (ADB) held from 4th April to 8th April 2022, Beijing, China.

 

  • Participated in UNCTAD YSI Summer School (2022) on Globalization and Development Strategies, jointly organized by the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) and the Institute of New Economic Thinking’s Young Scholars Initiative (YSI) held virtually, from August 1-5, 2022.

 

  • Attended virtual workshop on General Equilibrium Analysis with the Gravity Model: Theory and Applications conducted by School of Economics of the LeBow College of Business at Drexel University (Philadelphia, USA) from November 28 to December 2, 2022.

 

Completed Online Course

  1. Financial Integration in Southeast Asia, developed by Asian Development Bank Institute (ADBI E-Learning), April 17th, 2020. https://www.adb.org/adbi/capacity-building-training/e-learning.

 

  1. Digital Infrastructure and the Digital Divide (self-paced e-learning course), developed by Trade, Oceans and Natural Resources department, Commonwealth, United Kingdom. Self-paced e-learning course on Digital Infrastructure and the Digital Divide | Commonwealth (thecommonwealth.org).

Reviewer

I have reviewed more than ten papers for the reputed journals such as Singapore Economic Review (SER), FIIB Business Review (Sage), Emerging Markets Finance and Trade (Taylor & Francis), and Global Business and Economics Review (Inderscience), etc. 

Member in Professional Bodies

  1.  Member of Indian Agricultural Economics Association.
  2. Life Member, Telangana Economic Association (TEA).