I am a macroeconomist interested in endogenous growth theory, optimal fiscal and monetary policy, and emerging market business cycle models. I have recently been working on Indian economic growth, emerging market business cycle models, and endogenous growth models with endogenous investment specific technological change. I am currently an Associate Professor in the Economics and Planning Unit (Department of Economics), at the Indian Statistical Institute, New Delhi.
Articles
Has India Emerged? Business Cycle Stylized Facts from a Transitioning Economy (with Radhika Pandey and Ila Patnaik), Structural Change and Economic Dynamics (2013)
This paper presents a comprehensive set of stylized facts for business cycles in India from...
India's Growth Turnaround (with Stephen Wright), The New Oxford Companion to Economics in India (2012)
The "V - Factor": Distribution, Timing, and Correlates of the Great Indian Growth Turnaround (with Stephen Wright), Journal of Development Economics (2012)
We analyse a panel of output series for India, disaggregated by 15 states and 14...
Calibrating RBC Models: A Simple Example Illustrating the Method of Successive Approximations, Indian Growth and Development Review (2008)
Understanding Divergence in India: A Political Economy Approach, Journal of Economic Policy Reform (2008)
We construct a simple political economy model with imperfect capital markets to explain infrastructure investments...
Books
The Oxford Handbook of the Indian Economy (2012)
India's remarkable economic growth in recent years has made it one of the fastest growing...
Unpublished Papers
Factor Income Taxation, Growth, and Investment Specific Technological Change (with Monisankar Bishnu and Pawan Gopalakrishnan), Indian Statistical Institute - Delhi Center Discussion Paper (2013)
We construct a tractable endogenous growth model with production externalities in which the public capital...
Sectoral Infrastructure Investment In An Unbalanced Growing Economy: The Case Of India (with Gerhard Glomm and Jialu Liu), Indian Statistical Institute - Delhi Center Discussion Paper (2012)
We study the sectoral allocation of public infrastructure investments in the agriculture and manufacturing sectors...