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Dr Surender Kumar is presently working as Professor of Economics and Head of the Department of Policy Studies at TERI University, New Delhi. His previous stint involved the position of Fellow at NIPFP, New Delhi, after being involved in teaching economics at undergraduate and post-graduate levels for about eight years at Kurukshetra University. He had been a Visiting Fellow at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (USA) and JSPS Fellow at the Yokohama National University Yokohama (Japan).

A Ph D from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, Dr Kumar has worked with a concentrated focus on environmental and resource economics. He also extends his ambit of research to productivity and efficiency measurement.

Dr Kumar authored three books: Environmental and Economic Accounting for Industry (Oxford University Press, New Delhi), and Economics of Sustainable Development: the Case of India (Springer, New York) and, Energy Prices and Induced Innovations (VDM Publishers). Dr Kumar published about three-dozen papers during the last five years in cherished journals like Ecological Economics, Economic Modelling, Environmental and Resource Economics, Environment and Development Economics, Resource and Energy Economics, Journal of Environmental Management, Water Policy, Journal of Energy and Development etc.

Dr Kumar’s work has a social face with policy implications. His work in the area of environmental economics has not been confined only to showing that the use of economic instrument is cost effective policy for environmental compliance, but extends to providing a theoretical rationale for a practicable tax-standard framework. Dr Kumar was the lead author of the commissioned study of Ministry of Finance ‘Central Government Subsidies in India’ which formed the basis of the Discussion Paper that was presented by the Ministry of Finance to the Parliament on December 23, 2004.

At TERI University, he teaches courses in Environmental Economics, Climate Change Economics, and Economic Analysis of Public Policy

Recent Publications:
Books
1. Kumar, S., Energy Prices and Induced Innovation: A Directional Distance Function Approach, ISBN 978-3-639-26693-1, paperback, 84 Pages, VDM Publishing House, Germany (2010) http://www.bod.ch/index.php?id=3435&objk_id=365208
2. Kumar, S., and Managi, S., The Economics of Sustainable Development: the Case of India, Springer, New York (2009) http://www.springerlink.com/content/978-0-387-98175-8

Journal Papers
1. Kumar, S., ‘Unaccounted for Water and Performance Measurement: An Empirical Analysis from the Indian Water Sector’ Water Policy, vol. 12, pp 706-721, 2010.
2. Kumar, S., and Managi, S., ‘Service Quality and Performance Measurement: Evidence from the Indian Water Sector’, International Journal of Water Resources Development, vol. 26(2), pp. 173-191, 2010.
3. Kumar, S., and Managi, S., ‘Environment and Productivities in Developed and Developing Countries: The Case of Carbon Dioxide and Sulfur Dioxide’, Journal of Environmental Management Vol. 91, No. 07, pp. 1580-1592, 2010.
4. Kumar, S., and Managi, S., ‘Sulfur Dioxide Allowances: Trading and Technological Progress’, Ecological Economics Vol. 69, no. 10, pp. 623-631, 2010.
5. Kumar, S., and Managi, S., ‘Compensation for Environmental Services and Intergovernmental Fiscal Transfers: the Case of India’, Ecological Economics Vol. 68, no. 12, pp. 3052-3059, 2009.
6. Kumar, S. and Khanna, M., ‘Measurement of Environmental Efficiency and Productivity: A Cross Country Analysis’, Environment and Development Economics Vol 14, pp. 473-495, 2009
7. Kumar, S., and Managi, S., ‘Energy Price-Induced and Exogenous Technological Change: Assessing the Economic and Environmental Outcomes’, Resource and Energy Economics vol. 31(4), pp. 334-353, 2009.
8. Kumar, S., ‘The Macroeconomic Effects of Oil Price Shocks: Empirical Evidence for India’, Economics Bulletin, Vol. 29 no.1 pp. 14-37, 2009.
9. Managi, S. and Kumar, S., ‘Trade Induced Technological Change: Analyzing Economic and Environmental Outcomes’ Economic Modelling, Vol. 26. No.3, pp. 721-732, 2009.