Research Interests: International Trade, Innovation, Development Economics

Working Papers: 

• Organize to Innovate: Intellectual Property Regimes, Technology Adoption and Firm Structure (with C. Chatterjee and S. Bhattacharya) [pdf] 
• Financial Crisis, Monetary Policy and Credit Supply: Evidence from a Matched Firm-Bank Dataset [Abstract]

Papers Under Review:

• Input-trade Liberalization and the Demand for Managers: Evidence from India (with O. Raveh) [pdf]
  • Revise and Resubmit at Journal of International Economics
• ​The Impact of Chinese Competition on the Product Variety of Indian firms (with M. Henry) [pdf]
  • under review 

Publications: 
Journal Articles:

• The Great Trade Collapse and Indian Firms
  • ​​Accepted at World Economy (2017)
• 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) [pdf]
  • Research Policy 46 (5): 939-955, 2017 
• Judicial Quality and Regional Firm Performance: The Case of Indian States [pdf]
  • Journal of Comparative Economics ​44 (4): 902-918, 2016 
• Does openness affect inequality? A Case Study for India (with A. Barua) [pdf]
  • Review of Development Economics 14 (3): 447-465, 2010 

Contribution to Books:

• Trade and Industrial Performance since the WTO Reforms: What Indian Evidences Suggest? (with A. Barua & 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
• 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

​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:

• Banking Competition and Firm Dynamics (with S. Dhingra and G. Ottaviano)
• Does SOEs create agglomeration economies? (with S. Asher)
• Trade and Innvovation (with R. Ahsan)​
• Currency Choice, Importers and Exporters