RAMU RAMANATHAN --- RESUME

   

ADDRESS
Department of Economics
University of California, San Diego
La Jolla, Ca. 92093-0508
Phone: (619) 534-3383, FAX 534-7040

EDUCATION

M.A. (Mathematics), University of Madras
M.Stat. (Statistics), Indian Statistical Institute
Ph.D. (Economics), University of Minnesota

AREAS OF INTEREST

Applied Econometrics, Regional and Energy Economics, International Trade, Economic Growth and Development
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COURSES TAUGHT

Graduate: Econometrics (basic and advanced), Probability and Statistics, and Growth Theory.
Undergraduate: Econometric Theory, Applied Econometrics, Computer-aided Methods in Economics and Management, Micro and Macro principles, and International Economics.

EMPLOYMENT

Professor Emeritus, University of California, San Diego, July 1999 to date
Professor of Economics, University of California, San Diego, 1979-1999
President, Quantitative Economic Research Inc., 1974-94
Associate Professor of Economics, University of California, San Diego, 1972-79
Assistant Professor of Economics, University of California, San Diego, 1967-72
Research Assistant, University of Minnesota, 1963-66
Research Assistant, National Aeronautical Laboratory, India, 1961-63
Research Assistant, National Council of Applied Economic Research, New Delhi, 1959-61

FELLOWSHIPS

Ford Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship, 1966-67
Ford Foundation Faculty Research Fellowship, 1968-69

BOOKS/MONOGRAPHS

  1. INTRODUCTORY ECONOMETRICS WITH APPLICATIONS, Fifth Edition, Harcourt College Publishers, 2002.
  2. STATISTICAL METHODS IN ECONOMETRICS, Academic Press, 1993.
  3. FORECAST MASTER PROGRAM CASE STUDIES (Edited), Quantitative Economic Research, Inc., November 1986.
  4. ECONOMETRICS SOFTWARE PACKAGES IN UNIX, University of California, San Diego, January 1986.
  5. INTRODUCTION TO THE THEORY OF ECONOMIC GROWTH, Springer-Verlag, 1982.
  6. REGIONAL LOAD CURVE MODELS: QUERI'S MODEL LONG RUN FORECASTS AND SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS (with R. Engle and C.W.J. Granger), EPRI, EA-1672, September 1981.
  7. REGIONAL LOAD CURVE MODELS: QUERI'S MODEL SPECIFICATION, ESTIMATION AND VALIDATION (with R. Engle and C.W.J. Granger), EPRI, EA-72, Vol. 2, August 1981.
  8. ELECTRIC ENERGY FORECASTING MODEL OF SAN DIEGO REGION (with S. McMenamin), San Diego Gas and Electric Company, 1976.
  9. MEASURING EXTERNAL EFFECTS IN SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT (with R. Schmalensee, W. Ramm and D. Smallwood), Environmental Protection Agency, March 1975.
  10. SAN DIEGO: AN ECONOMIC ANALYSIS (with R. Emmerson and W. Ramm), Urban Observatory of San Diego, 1974, in four vols.

PUBLISHED PAPERS

  1. " Short-run Forecasts of Electricity Loads and Peaks," (with R. Engle, C.Granger, F. Vahid-Araghi, and C.Brace, International Journal of Forecasting, June 1997.
  2. " Diagnostic testing for modeling energy demand", ENERGY, December 1989.
  3. " Weather-normalization of WEPCO's peak loads", QUANTITATIVE ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC., January 1989.
  4. " A Note on the Lagrange multiplier test and model selection criteria," UCSD Discussion Paper no. 86-19, 1986.
  5. " Government Policy with Deficit Financing, Imperfect Capital Mobility and Exchange Rate Effects on the Supply Side," ECONOMIC MODELLING, October 1986.
  6. " Weather Normalization of Residential Electricity Sales" (with R. Engle, C.W.J. Granger, P. Ignelzi, J. Rice and K. Train), SHORT-RUN LOAD FORECASTING: PROCEEDINGS OF THE FOURTH EPRI SYMPOSIUM, EPRI EA-4080, June 1985.
  7. " Two-step Modelling for Short-term Forecasting" (with C.W.J. Granger and R. Engle), COMPARATIVE MODELS FOR ELECTRICAL LOAD FORECASTING, (Ed) D.W.Bunn and E.D.Farmer, J. Wiley & Sons, 1985.
  8. " Improved Methods of Combining Forecasts" (with C.W.J. Granger), J. OF FORECASTING, Vol 3, 1984, pp 197-204.
  9. " The Billing Cycle Phenomenon and the Appropriate Calculation of Weather Variables in Models of Electricity Sales" (with K. Train, R. Engle, C.W.J. Granger and P. Ignelzi), ENERGY, Vol. 9, No. 11-12, 1984.
  10. " Recommendations on Utility Rates and Fees", ENERGY FINANCE ADVISORY COMMITTEE RECOMMENDATIONS, San Diego Association of Governments (SANDAG), February 1984.
  11. " Modelling Hourly Load Shapes Using Data from Several Regions", APPROACHES TO LOAD FORECASTING: PROC. OF THE THIRD EPRI LOAD FORECASTING SYMPOSIUM, EPRI EA-2471, July 1982. Econometric and Computational Issues in Estimating the Demand for Energy by Time-of-day" (with A. Mitchem), REV. of ECON. and STAT., May 1982.
  12. " The Impact of Monetary Expansion with Terms of Trade Effects and Trade in Securities" (with W. Roberts), J. OF INTERNATIONAL ECON., Feb. 1981.
  13. " Some Problems in the Estimation of Daily Load Shapes and Peaks" (with R. Engle, C.W.J. Granger and A. Mitchem),MODELLING AND ANALYSIS OF ELECTRICITY DEMAND BY TIME-OF-DAY, EPRI, EA-1304, Dec. 1979.
  14. " Residential Load Curves and Time-of-day Pricing: An Econometric Analysis" (C.W.J. Granger, R. Engle and A. Anderson), J. OF CONOMETRICS, 1979.
  15. " Long-term Residential Load Forecasting", (with C.W.J. Granger, R. Engle and A. Anderson), FORECASTING AND MODELLING TIME-OF-DAY AND SEASONAL ELECTRICITY DEMANDS, EPRI, EA-578SR, December 1977.
  16. " A Benefit/Cost Analysis of the Peak Load Pricing of Electricity to Residential Users: Comment", FORECASTING AND MODELLING TIME-OF-DAY AND SEASONAL ELECTRICITY DEMANDS, Ed. Anthony Lawrence, EPRI, EA-578SR, December 1977.
  17. " A Note on the Use of Covariance Analysis in Regional Forecasting: Reply" (with W. Ramm), J. OF REGIONAL SCIENCE, August 1976.
  18. " The Pasinetti Paradox in a Two-class Monetary Growth Model", J. OF MONETARY ECON., July 1976.
  19. " The Elasticity of Substitution and the Speed of Convergence in Growth Models", ECON JOURNAL, Sept. 1975.
  20. " On the Analysis of Regional Growth Patterns" (with R. Emmerson and W. Ramm), J. OF REG. SCIENCE, April 1975.
  21. " Monetary Expansion, Balance of Trade and Economic Growth", ECONOMIC RECORD, March 1975.
  22. " Adjustment Time in the Two Sector Model with Fixed Coeffients", ECONOMIC JOURNAL, Dec. 1973.
  23. " The Role of Money in a Simple Growth Model: Comment", AMER ECON REVIEW, March 1972.
  24. " Measuring the Permanent Income of a Household: An Experiment in Methodology", J. OF POL. ECONOMY, January-February 1971.
  25. " Composition of Household Saving in Urban India", INDIAN ECON REVIEW, October 1970.
  26. " The Economics of Generating Electricity from Wind Power in India", INDIAN J. OF ECON., Jan. 1970.
  27. " Components of Saving and Substitutions Between Them Among Indian Households", PROC. OF AMER. STAT. ASSOC., 1969.
  28. " An Econometric Exploration of Indian Saving Behavior", J. AMER. STAT. ASSOC., March 1969.
  29. " Estimating the Permanent Income of a Household: An Application to Indian Data", REV. OF ECON. and STAT., August 1968.
  30. " Jorgenson's Model of a Dual Economy: An Extension", ECON. JOURNAL, June 1967.
  31. " The Effects of Mis-matching on the Measurement of Response Errors" (with J. Neter and E.S. Maynes), J. AMER. STAT. ASSOC., December 1965.

REVIEW WORK

   Associate Editor of ENERGY, THE INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL, 1983 - 1992.
   Refereed journal articles for the AMER. ECON REV., REV. OF ECON STUDIES, ECONOMETRICA, J. of ECON and BUSINESS, J. of MACRO ECONOMICS, AMER. ECON REV., SOUTHERN ECON J. and the REV. OF ECON. and STAT.
   TARIFF PROTECTION AND INDUSTRIALIZATION, by Padma Desai, for the J. OF INTERNATIONAL ECONOMICS., November 1971.
   BASIC ECONOMETRICS by Dennis Aigner for Prentice-Hall Inc., 1971.
   ECONOMIC STATISTICS AND ECONOMETRICS by Edward Kane, for Allyn and Bacon, Inc., 1974.
   BASIC ECONOMETRICS by Damodar Gujarati for McGraw-Hill Book Co., 1976.
   ECONOMETRICS by Ronald Wonnacott and Thomas Wonnacott, for Wiley/Hamilton, 1978.
   Manuscript proposals for the Academic Press, McGraw-Hill, Prentice-Hall, and Good Year Publishing Companies.

OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
   President, Quantitative Economic Research, Inc., 1977-94.
   Member, Advisory Committee, University-wide Energy Research Group, Univ. of California, 1984 - 1992.
   Member, Energy Finance Advisory Committee for the San Diego Association of Governments (SANDAG), 1982 - 1984.
   Was a discussant at the Western Social Science Association at San Diego, June 1984.
   Presented paper at the EPRI Conference at Dallas, December 1982.
   Presented paper at the EPRI Conference at Kansas City, Missouri, March 1981.
   Presented paper at the Amer. Stat. Assoc. Meetings at Houston, August 1980.
   Presented Publication no. 17 at the EPRI Conference at Aspen, March 1977.
   Member, Board of Directors, Econometric Research Associates, Inc., 1974-77.
   Consultant, Urban Observatory of San Diego, 1973-74.
   Consultant, Institute for Policy Analysis, La Jolla, 1972-74.
   Presented Paper at the Western Economic Assoc. Meetings, Santa Clara, Aug. 1972.
   Presented Paper at the Econometric Society Meetings, New Orleans, Dec. 1971.
   Was a Discussant at the Econometric Society Meetings, Detroit, Dec. 1970.
   Presented Paper at the Econometric Society Meetings, New York, Dec. 1969.
   Was a Discussant at the Midwest Economic Assoc. Meetings, Columbus, April 1966.
   Presented Paper at the Amer. Stat. Assoc. Meetings, Chicago, Dec. 1964.