Education

 

Jan 2015   PhD Economics   Birkbeck College, University of London

Dec 2006   MSc Financial Economics   SOAS, University of London

Jul 2001    BSc Economics and Mathematics   University of the West Indies (Trinidad) 

 

 

Employment

 

Sep 2014 - present   Teaching Fellow   Department of Economics, University of Southampton

• Module Leader: Mathematics for Economics (UG), Economic Perspectives and Policy (UG), Corporate Finance (PG)

• Seminar Teacher: Principles of Finance (UG)

• Dissertation Supervisor (UG and PG)

• Academic Tutor (UG)

 

Jan 2014 - June 2014   Associate Tutor   Department of Management, Birkbeck College, University of London

• Seminar Teacher: Microeconomics (UG), Macroeconomics (UG)

 

Sep 2009 - Dec 2013    Associate Tutor   Department of Economics, Birkbeck College, University of London

• Module Leader: Introduction to Economic Principles and Policy: Macroeconomics (UG), Microeconomic Principles (PG)

• Seminar Teacher: Introduction to Economics (UG), Quantitative Techniques 2 (UG), Principles of Finance (UG), Corporate Finance (UG), Microeconomics (PG)

 

May 2003 - Aug 2008   Economist   Research Department, Central Bank of Trinidad and Tobago

 

Aug 2001 - Apr 2003   Project Manager   RBC Royal Bank Trinidad Limited

 

Research Interests

 

Macroeconomics: dynamic general equilibrium, financial frictions, fiscal policy, unconventional monetary policy

 

Publications

 

Prasad, V. (2015), “Balanced budget tax cuts in a liquidity-constrained economy,” The Manchester School, Volume 83, Issue Supplement S3 (September), pp. 87-119, DOI: 10.1111/manc.12115. See the Research page for the accepted manuscript and the Technical Appendix. 

 

Work in Progress

 

Prasad, V (2014), "Asset purchases in a liquidity-constrained economy," See the Research page for the manuscript (note: for discussion, not for quotation).  

 

Computing Skills

 

For numerical computing:   Matlab, Maxima, Octave, Freemat

For macroeconomic modelling:   Dynare

For econometrics and statistics:   EViews, Gretl, R, RStudio

For typesetting:   LaTeX, TikZ, PGFPlots

For teaching:   Blackboard, Moodle (virtual learning environments), Debut, Jing, Screencast-O-Matic (screencasting)

Operating Systems:   Mac, Linux (Ubuntu, Linux Mint), Windows