CV Smruti Ranjan Behera Indian Institute of Technology Ropar, Punjab, India   Rupnagar, Punjab 140001 India   smrutibehera2003@gmail.com   https://www.iitrpr.ac.in/humanities/smruti   Biographical Sketch: Dr. Behera received PhD in Economics from the Delhi School of Economics (DSE), University of Delhi. He has worked under the guidance of Prof. Pami Dua and Prof. Bishwanath Goldar to obtain his PhD in Economics from the Delhi School of Economics. His research work has been focused on foreign direct investment and technology spillovers, spatial and regional spillover in Indian manufacturing industries. More specifically, he is doing research on the application of econometric modelling to estimate the macroeconomic parameters, and doing empirical exercise on economic growth, economic geography, current account deviation, S-I dynamics, and cross-border capital mobility to the developing countries, etc. He is an Assistant Professor of Economics in the Dept. of HSS, IIT Ropar, where he teaches econometrics, urban and regional economics, international economics and finance, and applied econometrics.   Primary Research Focus: Applied Econometrics, Macroeconomics, Industrial Economics, Urban Economics, and International Economics and Finance   JEL Areas: F : International Economics E2 : Macroeconomics: Consumption, Saving, Production, Employment, and Investment: General (includes Measurement and Data)