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NASA Probe-Passes

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Parker Probe

College Magazine Articles

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Journalist - Chemical Department's Magazine  - Volume-1 , Volume-2 

Some Simulation Works

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Some broad simulation examples about topics that I have worked on...

Rheology of Non-Newtonian Fluid flow through a pipe

Outline Shear-thinning, Shear thickening and Bingham fluids

Stationarity, Spectral Analysis, Asymptotics Time-Series Metrics

Outline:

Hacking using Heat

Security prodigies of Ben Gurion University are working to develop a technique with which they would be able to harvest data even from an air-gapped system. Air-gapped system (scratching head), What's that?   let's have a look.

Where do we find Entanglement in Nature

(I) Still existing as one of the biggest mysteries is that of quantum entanglement . Even the greatest minds of the century, like Albert Einstein also had to struggle to understand such a phenomenon and was compelled to say it as “spooky phenomenon at some distance”.

Economics of Alternative Fuel - Biofuel

At the alarming rate with which our non-renewable resources are depleting, leaving behind the poisonous smoke, the need of the hour is to find sustainable sources of energy.

Perceptions and Illusions

Philosophical article on perceptions and illusions. Click here to read

My Codes - Python, C, Stata

My python codes: 1. Cipher's:

South Asian Financial Crisis - South Korea

Southeast Asian experience of the 1970s and 1980s consisted of high growth based on export  competitiveness, low debt combined with low and stable inflation. Most of the East Asian  countries were running budget surpluses.

Forecasting Dividend Yield using Stock Indices

The work examines whether it is possible to accurately forecast dividend yield using aggregate stock returns in S&P500,

Consultants to a Campaign Group - Applied Metrics

Problem Statement: A local council is planning to build a rubbish incinerator on a piece of the English countryside that is much loved and used by local residents.

Intro to Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence for metricians

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There's no clear demarcation between ML, AI, statistics and econometrics. But there are some techniques under ML/AI that are not present in econometrics and could be quite beneficial to adopt.

Differences in Differences

Click here to access notes. The notes are based on lectures by Dr. Rachael Meager , LSE  and based on studies from listed references:

Instrumental Variables with applications to LATE and Dynamic Panel Models

Click here to access notes. The notes are based on lectures by Dr. Rachael Meager, LSE and based on studies from listed references:

Bootstrap

Click here to access notes. The notes are based on lectures by Dr. Rachael Meager , LSE  and based on studies from listed references:

Panel Standard Errors and Clustering

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Linear Regression with Panel Data: Fixed effects, First Differences

Click here to access notes. The notes are based on lectures by Dr. Rachael Meager , LSE  and based on studies from listed references: 1. Stock and Watson, Introduction to Econometrics 2. Wooldridge, Econometric Analysis of Cross-section and Panel Data 3. Raghvir Sabharwal LSE page - link here

Nash eqm vs Subgame perfect eqm

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This post is especially for the new-comers to the game theory. When I had started studying these topics, I remember being struggling to properly understand the differences and get an intuition of what's happening and I had seen my friends struggle as well.

Life and Lagrangian - Decision making and Economics

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In this post, I review an interesting interview about the decision-making process by an ex-spy and the National Security Advisor of India and connect it with a simplistic optimization procedure used in fundamentally and frequently in  economics .

Particle Scale Liquid Spreading in Trickle Bed Reactors

I performed simulations in HPC-computing facility of IITD, the 4th fastest supercomputer in India.  With emission norms getting more and more stringent, it has become important to improve the performance of trickle bed reactors to produce better fuel quality with sulphur content less than 10 ppm (e.g. ultra-low sulphur diesel).

Impact of Aadhar on Welfare in Welfare Programmes

Aadhaar, India's ambitious biometric ID project, was portrayed as one that would enhance India's welfare efforts by promoting inclusion and reducing corruption. From being a voluntary ID, it has become de facto compulsory for most welfare programmes such as the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA) and the Public Distribution System (PDS).

Modern Business Cycle Model with Search Friction

The big picture in this model is that markets do not clear instantaneously to make everyone happy. There are frictions in the labour market. This Diamond, Pissarides model has real unemployment. In RBC models we witness that unemployment is voluntary in nature.

Micro-Economics Models of Imperfect and Incomplete Information

Outline: Monopoly Review Price Discrimination

Data Sources

Berkeley Earth

Monetization of Govt Debt

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There is a lot of concern in some quarters about central banks printing money to finance large budget deficits. And in other quarters there is concern that central banks are doing too little of it. Some worry that central banks are lending directly to the government. Others are assuaged when central banks buy government debt in the secondary market but not directly. Who is right? My summary of the article by Dr. Rajan (find the link of the original article at the end) where I have used balance sheets to visualize the flow. Meanwhile, I also found a few points which I found weren't mentioned in the article. Feel free to comment on what you think about it. Click here  to read the original article. 

Impact of Openness on CO2 emissions in China

The study explores the effect of trade and FDI contributed to CO2 emissions in China from 1981-2014. It finds that trade, mainly exports, and FDI had significantly led to higher emissions. Thereby it finds evidence in support of Pollution Haven Hypothesis.

Impact of Diesel Price Deregulation on asymmetricity of Exchange rate Pass-through to inflation

India is a net importer of energy, with High-Speed-Diesel playing a central role in India’s energy dynamics. Due to this, diesel prices were passed in a controlled manner and distributed asymmetrically between favourable and unfavourable shocks.