Mohit Saharan

I am an FPM (Fellow Programme in Management) candidate in Accounting and Finance at the Indian School of Business, Hyderabad (August 2024 – present).

My research interests lie at the intersection of Systemic Risk, Financial Stability, Climate Change, and Macroeconomics.

Education

Indian School of Business, Hyderabad, Telangana
FPM in Accounting and Finance — Aug 2024 – Present

Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics, Pune, Maharashtra
M.Sc. Financial Economics — Jul 2019 – May 2021
GPA: 8.45/10 · Awarded the Prof. N.V. Sovani Award for highest marks in Financial Modeling and Engineering
Relevant courses: Financial Econometrics, Financial Derivatives, Financial Risk Management, Macroeconomics

University of Delhi, Satyawati College, New Delhi
B.A. (Hons.) Economics — Jul 2015 – May 2018
Relevant courses: Intermediate Macroeconomics, Public Economics, Money and Financial Markets, International Economics

Work Experience

Indian School of Business, Mohali, Punjab
Research Associate with Prof. Shekhar Tomar — Oct 2023 – Jul 2024

• Conducted macroeconomic research and contributed to projects analyzing international trade.
• Collaborated on publications and research initiatives focusing on the trade war and macroeconomic stability.
• Implemented differences-in-differences approach using reghdfe and ppmlhdfe in Stata on a firm-product-level dataset of Indian imports and exports with more than 250 million observations.

Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI), Mumbai, Maharashtra
Young Professional, Department of Economic and Policy Analysis — Aug 2022 – Oct 2023

• Led projects on financial stress indices, capital outflow risks, and credit risk early warning indicators.
• Assisted with Financial Stress Index (FSI) computation and developed the Securities Market Inclusion Index (SMII).
• Built a Fear-Greed Index to gauge market sentiment using seven financial market indicators.

Indian Institute of Management, Mumbai, Mumbai, Maharashtra
Research Associate with Prof. Vijaya Gupta — Jun 2021 – Jul 2022

• Authored a research paper, “Total Factor Productivity Analysis of Indian Manufacturing Industry”, selected for presentation at the International Economic Association’s World Congress 2023.
• Estimated Indian manufacturing industry’s total factor productivity using a Luenberger-Hicks-Moorsteen productivity indicator and Malmquist productivity index with user-defined functions in R and Stata.

Internships

Prof. Rama Seth, Copenhagen Business School — Remote
Research Intern — Jan 2021 – Jan 2022

• Conducted literature reviews, data analysis, and economic modeling.
• Contributed to the published chapter “Impact of legal enforcement of CSR on SDGs.”
• Assisted with a working paper on CSR activities among MNEs in India across cultural, administrative, geographical, and economic distance dimensions.

Data with Saloni — Remote
Economic Research Intern — Nov 2020 – May 2021

• Engaged in hands-on data handling, regression, and machine learning using Python, R, and Stata.
• Conducted projects including Bayesian methods, Sentiment Analysis, RCTs, and predictive evaluation of tree-based algorithms, SVMs, neural networks, and Ridge-Lasso regressions.

Research

Under Review

• The Dominant Role of Scale Efficiency in Indian Manufacturing Industries: A Non-Parametric Decomposition of Total Factor Productivity. Technological Forecasting & Social Change.

Working Paper

• Working paper title and details coming soon.

Skills