Research and academic professional with 7.2 years of research and management teaching experience in dealing with economic and financial research. He has taught extensively diversified courses in the area of economics and finance such as Managerial Economics and Macroeconomics, Global Financial Market, Financial Engineering and Derivative, International Commodity Management and Decision Model in Finance, Macro econometric Modelling and Business Economics and Policy, at Post Graduate Management teaching. 
He has completed PhD (Economics) from University of Hyderabad and published closely 8 papers in the journals and edited volume in the broad areas of economics and finance with three papers in the Scopus index Journal i.e. Applied Econometrics and International Development, International Journal of Economics and Business Administration, and International Journal of Applied Business and Economic Research. Further, He has two books in his credit i.e. Commodity Derivative in India and Applied Economics and Finance (edited book). 
He was  Associate Editor of GITAM Review of International Business and successfully organized three major International Conference on Applied Economics and Finance as conference director along with three workshops on “Time series and Panel data Modelling and Forecasting: using Eview and SPSS”.  Previously, He worked as Assistant Professor at GITAM University, Senior Project Officer and Visiting faculty at National Institute of Urban Affairs and Amity University, New Delhi, respectively, and Faculty Associate at ICFAI Business School, Hyderabad from August, 2007 to June, 2008. Further, He has experience in dealing with econometric models and software such as R, SAS, E-views and SPSS. 
 

Courses taught:  
Managerial Economics, Macroeconomics, Global Financial Market, Money Banking and Financial Market, Financial Engineering and Derivative, International Commodity Management and Decision Model in Finance, Financial Analytics, Macro Econometric Modelling and Business Economics and Policy
 

Publications:

• Behera C(2020): “Institutional Quality and Foreign Direct Investment Inflow: Evidence from Cross-country Data with Policy Implication”, International Journal of Economics and Business Administration, VIII(2), pp.302-316.
• Behera C(2016): “Price Discovery and Spill-over impact in the Indian Commodity Futures Market: An Empirical investigation into Metal Futures” International Journal of Applied Business and Economic Research (Scopus indexed, ISBN: 0972-7302, UGC no.-2551), Vol. 14, No.6, pp. 4573-4586.
• Behera, C (2009) “Stock Prices and its Relation with Crude Oil prices and Exchange Rates in India,” Applied econometrics and international development, (Scopus indexed, ISSN:15784487) Vol. 9 (1) pp.149-161.
• Behera C (2015) “Long Memory and Spill-over Effect in the Indian Commodity futures Market: An Econometric Investigation into Metal and Energy Futures” International Journal of Business Quantitative Economics and Management Research, Vol. 1. 2, pp 42-65
• Behera C (2015)“Price Discovery and Market Efficiency in the Indian Commodity Futures Market” International Journal of Innovative Research in Engineering & Management,  vol. 2.4 pp 40-47
   

Conferences:

• Presented a paper titled  “Impact of Trade Openness, Financial Development and Institutional Quality on Economic Growth: A Dynamic Panel Unit Root Model” in  International Conference of Banking, Finance and Business – ICBFB 2019 to be held on April 24-25, 2019 at CBFS campus, Muscat, Sultanate of Oman.
• Presented a paper at 55th Annual Conference of TIES held at NISM Mumbai during 8-10 January, 2019.
• Presented a paper at 3rd International Conference on "Drifts in Business, Governance and Societal Values: Conflicts and Challenges” held at IMI, Bhubaneswar during 8th -9th December 2017.
• Attended a Financial Research Workshop held at IIM Calcutta during 18-19 November 2016.
• 53rd Annual Conference of the Indian Econometric Society held at NISER, Odisha from December 22-24, 2016.
• Attended GIAN Course on “Emerging Market Finance Research: Future Direction” during 8th -12 August, 2016 at Department of Management, IIT Madras, Chennai.  
• 3rd International Conference on Applied Business and Economic Research at Hotel Hans, New Delhi from 30-31 July, 2016.
• 5th International Conference on Applied Econometrics held at IBS Hyderabad, from July 22-23, 2016.
• 51st Annual Conference of the Indian Econometric Society held at Punjabi University, Patiala from December 12-14, 2014.
• 4th International Conference on Applied Econometrics held at IBS Hyderabad from March 20-21, 2014.
• XII Capital Markets conference held at Indian Institute of Capital Market, Mumbai from December 19-20, 2013.
• Golden Jubilee conference of The Indian Econometric Society (TIES) & Valedictory Celebrations of Indra Gandhi Institute of Development and Research (IGIDR) held at IGIDR, Mumbai from December 22-24. 2014.
• Presented a paper titled “Price Discovery in the Indian Commodity Futures Market” in 48th annual conference, The Indian Econometric Society (TIES), from March 1-3, 2012 held at Pondicherry University, Pondicherry.
• 3rd International conference on Applied Econometrics held at IBS Hyderabad in Collaboration with The Indian Econometric Society, New Delhi in December, 2011.

 Books:

•  Commodity Futures Market: APH Publishing House 2016(ISBN: 978-93-85876-06-6)
• Applied Economics and Finance, APH Publishing House, 2016(ISBN:978-93-313-2733-8)

Book Chapters:

• The topic titled “Asymmetric Stock Market Volatility: An Empirical Analysis in the Indian Context” is published in “A Collection essays in finance” (2010) edited by Basabi Bhattacharya, Allied publisher.
• The topic entitled “Forecasting Asymmetric Volatility in Indian Capital Market: An Econometric Investigation” is published in “Forecasting financial market in India” (2009) edited by Rudra P. Pradhan. Allied Publisher.
• The topic entitled “Futures Market and Inflation: An Econometric Investigation into Metal and Energy Futures” is published in “International Monetary System”(2016), edited by Dr. Debesh Bhowmik, Regal Publisher.

Organized workshop and conference:

• 1st International Conference on “Applied Economics and Finance” in collaboration with The Indian Econometric Society (TIES) held at GITAM University on 26 February,2015.
• 2nd International Conference on “Applied Economics and Finance” in collaboration with The Indian Econometric Society (TIES) held at GITAM University on 6 February 2016.
• 3rd International Conference on “Applied Economics and Finance” in collaboration with The Indian Econometric Society(TIES) held at GITAM University on 28th January 2017.
• 1st national conference on “Applied Finance” in Collaboration with The Indian Econometric Society(TIES ) held at M.G. School of Economics and Commerce, Assam (a Central) University, Silchar on 13 January, 2018.
• 1st winter school workshop on “Times Series and Panel data Modelling and Forecasting: using SPSS and EVIEW”  in collaboration with The Indian Econometric Society(TIES ) held at GITAM University  during 25-28 January 2017.
• 1st Winter School Workshop On “time Series Modelling and Forecasting: Using E-Views” in collaboration with The Indian Econometric Society(TIES ) held at M.G. School of Economics and Commerce, Assam (a Central) University, Silchar during 11th -13th January, 2018
• Organized a MDP titled “Time series and panel data modelling and forecasting: Using Eviews and STATA” organized by Goa Institute of Management and The Indian Econometric Society during 16th to 18 the May 2019, held at Goa Institute of Management, Goa.
• Organized a MDP titled “Time series and panel data modelling and forecasting: Using Eviews and STATA” organized by Goa Institute of Management during 12th to 14 the June 2019, held at Goa Institute of Management (Online Mode), Goa.
   

• Since 2019: Assistant Professor of Economics and Finance, Goa Institute of Management
• 2013-2018; Assistant Professor of Economics and Finance, GITAM School of International Business, GITAM University, Visakhapatnam, India.
• 2012-2013:  Senior Project Officer at National Institute of Urban Affairs, Ministry of Urban Development, New Delhi, India 
• 2008-20012: Research Scholar, School of Economics, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad, India
• 2007-2008: Faculty Associate, IBS Hyderabad, Hyderabad, India