Uruppika: Centre of Excellence in Macroeconomics, Banking and Finance (CEMBAF)

Urupikka is IIMK’s flagship Centre of excellence in macroeconomics and finance, focussed on frontier areas of research and its policy inferences with an overarching objective to bridge knowledge gap amongst researchers and policymakers by interactions amongst these groups as well as between them. Macroeconomics, banking and finance are themes that not only determine the health of the national economy but touch the common man’s life and businesses of varied scales, size and sectors in several ways. Training business leaders for tomorrow needs management institutes to push frontiers of knowledge in these areas and expose students as leaders of tomorrow to the latest in these areas.

Activities:

Undertake cutting-edge research in the Centre’s areas which can be disseminated through various platforms

To run ‘Mudra’: A Computational and Data Sciences Lab in Money and Finance to support research and trainings in macroeconomics, computational and behavioural finance...

Conduct an Annual Conference, on a chosen theme each year, to provide an interface amongst top policymakers and researchers...

Invite Distinguished Visiting Fellows from abroad or premier Indian research institutes to do collaborative work with IIMK faculty

Invited Talks/ Seminars under a ‘Mimansa’ series

Raising funds for the Centre through external grants and consulting projects

Offer specialized trainings on requests of institutions/ corporates

Develop or participate in international networks on specific themes