Research Interests: International Trade, Innovation, Organizational Economics, Development Economics

Working Papers: 

• Bank Ownership, Monetary Policy and Exports: Evidence from a Firm-Bank Matched Dataset
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• Import Competition and Outsourcing (with A. Sundaram)
  • ​[pdf] (Preliminary Draft)
• Contract Labour and International Trade (with R. Singh and V. Soundararajan)
  • [Slides] [Coming soon]
• ​​​​Efficiency Gains and Product Market Competition: Evidence from India (with M. Henry and R. Singh)
  • [Coming soon]
• Banking Competition and Firm Dynamics (with N. Mitra)
  • ​[Coming soon] 

Papers Under Review:

• ​Intellectual Property Regimes and Wage Inequality (with C. Chatterjee and S. Bhattacharya)
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​Publications: 
Journal Articles:

• Chinese Competition and Product Variety of Indian firms (with M. Henry) 
  • Journal of Comparative Economics 47 (2): 367-395, 2019 [pdf]
• Input-trade Liberalization and the Demand for Managers: Evidence from India (with O. Raveh)
  • ​​Journal of International Economics 111: 159-176, 2018 [pdf]
• The Great Trade Collapse and Indian Firms
  • ​​World Economy 41 (1): 100-125, 2018 [pdf]
• Environmental Standards, Trade and Innovation: Evidence from a Natural Experiment
  • Environment and Development Economics 22 (4): 414-446, 2017 [pdf]
• ​Does Environmental Regulation Indirectly Induce Upstream Innovation? New Evidence from India (with C. Chatterjee) 
  • Research Policy 46 (5): 939-955, 2017 [pdf]
    • Top three 2017 articles w/the most social media attention @ResearchPolicy  
• Judicial Quality and Regional Firm Performance: The Case of Indian States 
  • Journal of Comparative Economics ​44 (4): 902-918, 2016 [pdf]
• Does openness affect inequality? A Case Study for India (with A. Barua) 
  • Review of Development Economics 14 (3): 447-465, 2010 [pdf]

Other Journal Articles:

• Effect of Environmental Regulation on Firm Performance: Evidence from a Policy Experiment
  • Economic and Political Weekly 51 (24): 104-111, 2016 [pdf]
• Standards or Hazards: Environmental Compliance and Market Access Concerns for India’s Marine and Agricultural Products
  • Asia Pacific Journal of Environmental Law 12 (1): 85-116, 2009 [pdf]
• Environmental Regulations and Indian Leather Industry (with D. Chakraborty)
  • Economic and Political Weekly 42 (19): 1669-1672, 2007 [pdf]

Contribution to Books:

• Trade and Industrial Performance since the WTO Reforms: What Indian Evidences Suggest? (with A. Barua and D. Chakraborty)
  • in R. M. Stern & A. Barua (eds.), India and the WTO: Issues and Negotiating Strategies, pp. 121-144, Orient Longman Publishing, New Delhi, 2010 [pdf] 
• Environmental Service Negotiation and India: Priorities and Concerns (with O. De)
  • in B. DebRoy et al. (eds.) the trade game: negotiation trends at WTO and concerns of developing countries, pp. 203-214, Academic Foundation Publishers, New Delhi, 2006

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​Media:

• Is the ban on BS-III vehicles really bad? (with C. Chatterjee)
  • livemint 11 (86): 15, April 11, 2017  [http://www.livemint.com/Opinion/BV8SwjKy9dM5V8eEMEkfSI/Is-the-ban-on-BSIII-vehicles-really-bad.html]
• Assure a better future for the leather industry (with R. Kher)
  • The Financial Express: 7, Feb 17, 2005 [http://archive.financialexpress.com/news/assure-a-better-future-for-the-leather-industry/147818/1]​​

Research Paper(s) in Progress:

• Trade and Innvovation (with R. Ahsan)​
• Does SOEs create agglomeration economies? (with S. Asher)
• Currency Choice, Importers and Exporters