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
.
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
- INTRODUCTORY ECONOMETRICS WITH APPLICATIONS, Fifth Edition,
Harcourt College Publishers, 2002.
- STATISTICAL METHODS IN ECONOMETRICS, Academic Press, 1993.
- FORECAST MASTER PROGRAM CASE STUDIES (Edited), Quantitative
Economic Research, Inc., November 1986.
- ECONOMETRICS SOFTWARE PACKAGES IN UNIX,
University of California, San Diego, January 1986.
- INTRODUCTION TO THE THEORY OF ECONOMIC GROWTH,
Springer-Verlag, 1982.
- 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.
-
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.
- ELECTRIC ENERGY FORECASTING
MODEL OF SAN DIEGO REGION (with S. McMenamin),
San Diego Gas and Electric Company,
1976.
- MEASURING EXTERNAL EFFECTS IN SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT
(with R. Schmalensee, W. Ramm and D. Smallwood),
Environmental Protection Agency, March 1975.
- SAN DIEGO: AN ECONOMIC ANALYSIS
(with R. Emmerson and W. Ramm), Urban Observatory of San Diego, 1974, in
four vols.
PUBLISHED PAPERS
- "
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.
- "
Diagnostic testing for modeling energy demand", ENERGY, December 1989.
- "
Weather-normalization of WEPCO's peak loads", QUANTITATIVE ECONOMIC RESEARCH,
INC., January 1989.
- "
A Note on the Lagrange multiplier test and model selection
criteria," UCSD Discussion Paper no. 86-19, 1986.
- "
Government Policy with Deficit Financing, Imperfect Capital
Mobility and Exchange Rate Effects on the Supply Side," ECONOMIC
MODELLING, October 1986.
- "
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.
- "
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.
- "
Improved Methods of Combining
Forecasts"
(with C.W.J. Granger), J. OF FORECASTING, Vol 3, 1984, pp 197-204.
- "
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.
- "
Recommendations on Utility Rates and Fees",
ENERGY FINANCE ADVISORY COMMITTEE RECOMMENDATIONS, San Diego
Association of Governments (SANDAG), February 1984.
- "
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.
- "
The Impact of Monetary Expansion
with Terms of Trade Effects and Trade in Securities"
(with W. Roberts), J. OF
INTERNATIONAL ECON., Feb. 1981.
- "
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.
- "
Residential Load Curves and Time-of-day Pricing: An Econometric
Analysis" (C.W.J. Granger, R. Engle and A. Anderson), J. OF
CONOMETRICS, 1979.
- "
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.
- "
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.
- "
A Note on the Use of Covariance
Analysis in Regional Forecasting: Reply" (with W. Ramm), J. OF REGIONAL
SCIENCE, August 1976.
- "
The Pasinetti Paradox in a Two-class Monetary
Growth Model", J. OF MONETARY ECON., July 1976.
- "
The Elasticity of Substitution and the Speed of
Convergence in Growth Models", ECON JOURNAL, Sept. 1975.
- "
On the Analysis of
Regional Growth Patterns"
(with R. Emmerson and W. Ramm), J. OF REG. SCIENCE, April 1975.
- "
Monetary Expansion, Balance of Trade and Economic
Growth", ECONOMIC RECORD, March 1975.
- "
Adjustment Time in the Two Sector Model with
Fixed Coeffients", ECONOMIC JOURNAL, Dec. 1973.
- "
The Role of Money in a Simple Growth Model:
Comment", AMER ECON REVIEW, March 1972.
- "
Measuring the Permanent Income of a Household:
An Experiment in Methodology", J. OF POL. ECONOMY,
January-February 1971.
- "
Composition of Household Saving in Urban
India", INDIAN ECON REVIEW, October 1970.
- "
The Economics of Generating Electricity from Wind
Power in India", INDIAN J. OF ECON., Jan. 1970.
- "
Components of Saving and Substitutions Between
Them Among Indian Households", PROC. OF AMER. STAT.
ASSOC., 1969.
- "
An Econometric Exploration of Indian Saving
Behavior", J. AMER. STAT. ASSOC., March 1969.
- "
Estimating the Permanent Income of a Household:
An Application to Indian Data", REV. OF ECON. and STAT.,
August 1968.
- "
Jorgenson's Model of a Dual Economy: An
Extension", ECON. JOURNAL, June 1967.
- "
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.