A Collaborative Platform for India’s Economic Foresight: The Indian Business-Cycles Foresight Institute (IBFI) is an open, independent platform dedicated to strengthening India’s capability in business-cycle research, macro-environment measurement, and long-term demand foresight. IBFI brings together ideas, insights, and analytical frameworks from industry professionals, economists, researchers, data scientists, strategists, and corporate leaders who believe that India needs stronger, forward-looking economic intelligence. Founded by Pinaki Mukherjee, IBFI is built with the mindset of collaboration, shared learning, and collective foresight —not ownership. What IBFI Stands For A shared space for deep economic thinking IBFI is designed as a neutral, non-commercial platform where anyone working on Indian macroeconomics, cycles, demand, forecasting, or strategic intelligence can contribute knowledge, data, methods, or perspective. An ecosystem, not an in...
Version 1.1 | November 2026 Purpose: Standardised framework for developing, writing, validating and publishing economics research papers intended for peer-reviewed, Scopus-indexed journals. PART I: RESEARCH PAPER FRAMEWORK 1. PURPOSE AND SCOPE The Standard Economics Research Paper Framework (SERPF) establishes a common methodological and editorial standard for preparing economics research papers for publication in peer-reviewed, Scopus-indexed journals. The framework aims to ensure: Academic rigour and theoretical consistency. Clearly articulated research gaps and original contributions. Robust and transparent empirical methodologies. Reliable, reproducible and verifiable research findings. Consistency with international economics research and publication standards. SERPF applies to empirical economics, macroeconomics, monetary economics, financial economics, development economics, econometrics, economic measurement, index construction and interdisciplinary economic research. 2....