Some of the best minds of the Institute for Financial Management and Research (IFMR) met at Sri City – about 55 km from here – to present their research on diverse topics, including computational finance and numerical methods, entrepreneurship, environment, climate change and digital financial inclusion.
The two-day event, called ‘Shri Bhadrashyam H. Kothari Memorial Research Seminar’ is dedicated to late Shri Bhadrashyam Kothari, popularly known as Shyam Kothari in the industrial circles and the man who headed the $100-million H.C. Kothari Group.
C.V. Krishnan, president, IFMR, in his welcome address, said, “Research was close to his [Shyam Kothari] heart. So, we dedicate this seminar to the noble man who always had a smile on his face,” he said.
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“This seminar will be an annual feature and in due course of time the institute would bring in other stakeholders to present their research papers here. Today, we have around 40 professors presenting their papers from the IFMR family,” said Professor P K Biswas, director, IFMR.
Ramanan Laxmminarayan, Vice President, Research and Policy, Public Health Foundation of India, who delivered the keynote address, spoke about public health education, life expectancy, mortality rates and malnutrition. “Over the last ten years our gains in health have been quite remarkable. But not as remarkable as it could be,” he said.
Around 19 research papers were presented on the first day. One of the papers presented examined the degree of efficiency exhibited by the sovereign Credit Default Swaps and the sovereign bonds pertaining to the G8.
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