Dr. Vipin Valiyattoor

I am a Ph.D. graduate in Economics from the Indian Institute of Technology Madras and presently working as an Assistant Professor at the Department of Economic Sciences, IISER Bhopal. My areas of specialization are Microeconomics, Applied Econometrics, Industrial Economics and Efficiency and Productivity Analysis. My research interests lie in applied economic analysis, particularly the performance evaluation using Data Envelopment Analysis(DEA) and Bootstrap DEA approach. I am also interested in studies using primary survey data.

Ph.D. in Economics

2014 - 2019 · Indian Institute of Technology Madras

Thesis: Performance of Indian Industries: Conventional and Bootstrap-Based Inferences (Supervisor: Dr Anup Kumar Bhandari).

B.Ed. in Social Sciences

2013 · Farook Training College Kozhikkode, affiliated to University of Calicut, Kerala.

M.A. in Economics

2010 - 2012 · Farook College (Autonomous) Kozhikkode, affiliated to University of Calicut, Kerala.

B.A. in Economics

2007 - 2010 · Pocker Sahib Memorial Orphanage (PSMO) College, Tirurangadi, Malappuram, affiliated to University of Calicut, Kerala.

Assistant Professor

2020 - Present · Department of Economic Sciences, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Bhopal.

Head of the Department (in-Charge)

October, 2022 - December, 2024 · Department of Economic Sciences, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Bhopal.

Guest Faculty

2020 · Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Madras.

Research Consultant

2019-2020 · Madras Institute of Development Studies, Chennai.

Worked as a Research Consultant of Tamil Nadu Household Panel Survey at MIDS Chennai (A project in partnership with Department of Economics and Statistics, Government of Tamil Nadu and Survey Research Centre, University of Michigan, U.S).

Guest Faculty

2013-14 · Government Arts and Science College, Kozhikkode.

Ms. Anuvinda

Ph.D. Scholar 2021-Present · Area of Research: The Productivity Dynamics of the Manufacturing Sector In India: A Non-Parametric Analysis

Ms. Ardhana M Prabhash

Ph.D. Scholar 2022-Present · Area of Research: Performance Prediction: An integration of Machine Learning and DEA

Mr. Abhishek Meel

Ph.D. Scholar 2023-Present · Area of Research: Dynamic Multi-Objective Trade-Offs for Adaptive Manufacturing Decisions

Mr. Sitaram Nath

Ph.D. Scholar 2023-Present · Area of Research: Fuzzy Data Envelopment Analysis

Mr. Shravan Kumar Ahirwar

Ph.D. Scholar 2025-Present · Area of Research: Performance Analysis of Circular Economy Technologies

Ms. Amina Kurikkal Madathil Musthafa

MS Scholar 2025-2026 · Area of Research: Econometrics

Mr. Aswin Jayachandran

MS Scholar 2025-2026 · Area of Research: Econometrics

Mr. Fawaz Hamza T M

MS Scholar 2025-2026 · Area of Research: Econometrics

Ms. Gouravi Khatri

MS Scholar 2025-2026 · Area of Research: Econometrics

Mr. Muhammed Mikhdad K G

MS Scholar 2025-2026 · Area of Research: Econometrics

Dr. Aqib Mujtaba (Ph.D. Shri Mata Vaishno Devi University, Katra)

Institute Post-Doctoral Fellow 2023-24 · Area of Research: Environmental Economics

Dr. Aadil Ummar Zaman (Ph.D. Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh)

Institute Post-Doctoral Fellow 2024-25 · Area of Research: Banking Efficiency and Green Total Factor Productivity

Mr. Ajith Suresh Kumar

MS Scholar 2022-2023 · Area of Research: Environmental Economics

Ms. Aparna V

MS Scholar 2022-2023 · Area of Research: Microeconometrics

Ms. Sahla Abdu

MS Scholar 2022-2023 · Area of Research: Network DEA

Mr. Shanchhith Singh Nayak

MS Scholar 2022-2023 · Area of Research: Education Economics | Co-supervisor: Dr Sreenath VS (HSS, IISER Bhopal)

Mr. Gagan Krishna

MS Scholar 2022-2023 · Area of Research: Application of DEA in Chemical Engineering |Co-supervisor: Dr Sankar Chakma (Department of Chemical Engineering, IISER Bhopal)

Ms.Anagha Bhaskaran

MS Scholar 2023-24 · Area of Research: Merger and Acquisition Matching for Performance Improvement: An Analysis of the Indian Pharmaceutical Sector

Mr. Anukaran Singh

MS Scholar 2024-25 · Area of Research: Decoding ESG’s Influence on the Corporate World

Ms. Bhagya Gopakumar

MS Scholar 2024-25 · Area of Research:Efficiency analysis and ranking of top medical institutions in India: A two-stage slack-based measure approach and production trade-offs

Ms. Bikshita Dash

MS Scholar 2024-25 · Area of Research: Credit Risk Analysis Using Knowledge Graphs and Multi-Agent Systems: Leveraging LLMs|Co-supervisor: Prof. Parthiban Srinivasan(Department of Data Science and Engineering, IISER Bhopal)

Ms. Mauzmi Nazar

MS Scholar 2024-25 · Area of Research:A Bite of Yesteryear : Unpacking the Affective Power of Nostalgia in Food Marketing|Co-supervisor: Dr. Anuparna Mukherjee(Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IISER Bhopal)

Ms. Mirudhula A

MS Scholar 2024-25 · Area of Research: A Comprehensive Analysis on Amalgamation of Regional Rural Banks using Data Envelopment Analysis

Ms. Prarthana M P

MS Scholar 2024-25 · Area of Research:Analyzing Success and Failure of Indian Manufacturing Firms: A Multi-Model Approach

Ms. Saba Ruhsana

MS Scholar 2024-25 · Area of Research: Why Firms Relocate? Evidence from India

Mr. Vaibhav Mishra

MS Scholar 2024-25 · Area of Research: DEA-based Nash Bargaining Approach to Merger Target Selection for Horizontal Mergers

Journal Articles

2025. Mauzmi Nazar, Vipin Valiyattoor, Anuparna Mukherjee, and Anuvinda. A bite of yesteryear: unpacking the evocative power of nostalgia in food marketing. Journal of Food Products Marketing (2025).

2025. Aadil Ummar Zaman and Vipin Valiyattoor. Evaluating the green total factor productivity and convergence among emerging and resource intensive economies. Discover Sustainability(2025).

2025. Anuvinda and Vipin Valiyattoor The nexus between total factor productivity and the backsourcing decision: evidence from India’s manufacturing sector. Applied Economics (2025).

2024. Ardhana M Prabhash and Vipin Valiyattoor Imputation Propelled Data Envelopment Analysis (IPDEA): A Case of Indian Food Processing Sector Book: Advances in the Theory and Practice of Data Envelopment Analysis (Editors: Ali Emrouznejad, Subhash C. Ray, Gokulnanda Patel, 2024).

2023. Vipin Valiyattoor and Anup Kumar Bhandari. Towards a better measure of productivity in India: a case of chemical and chemical products industry. Indian Growth and Development Review (2023).

2022. Mohammad Shahid Zaman, Vipin Valiyattoor and Anup Kumar Bhandari. Dynamics of total factor productivity growth: An empirical analysis of Indian commercial banks. The Journal of Economic Asymmetries.

2022. Mohammad Shahid Zaman and Vipin Valiyattoor. Testing the Appositeness of Off-Balance Sheet Activities in the Indian Banking Industry: A Panel Double Bootstrap Approach. Asian Economics Letters (2022).

2022. Vipin Valiyattoor and Anup Kumar Bhandari. Outsourcing and Firm Performance Nexus: An Analysis using the Conventional and Panel Double-bootstrap Procedure. Research in International Business and Finance (2020).

2020. Vipin Valiyattoor and Anup Kumar Bhandari. Conventional Procedure vis-`a-vis Bootstrap-Based Corrections of Efficiency Analyses. Indian Growth and Development Review.

2016. Anup Kumar Bhandari and Vipin Valiyattoor. Efficiency and Related Technological aspects of Food Processing Industry in India: A Non-Parametric Analysis. Journal of Developing Areas .

Proceedings

2016. Vipin Valiyattoor and Anup Kumar Bhandari. Does Export Intensity Affect Firm Performance? Evidence from Basic Metal Industry in India. Conference Proceedings of XI Annual International Conference of Forum for Global Knowledge Sharing.

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