I am an Assistant Professor of Economics and Public Policy at the Indian School of Business. I received my Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Minnesota. Previously, I served as a Research Analyst at the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis and the International Monetary Fund.
Fields: Public Economics, Monetary Economics, Macroeconomics
PUBLISHED WORK
Contract Enforcement and Preventive Healthcare: Theory and Evidence, Review of Economic Dynamics, Volume 51, 2023
WORKING PAPERS
Impact of Third-party Reporting on Corporate Tax Evasion: Evidence from Indian Tax Records with Sumit Agarwal, Shashwat Alok, and Tejaswi Velayudhan
Are Minimum Wages and Income Taxes Complements or Substitutes in Addressing Rising Skill Premia? with Sergio Salgado
Bank Coordination and Monetary Transmission: Evidence from India with Krishnamurthy Subramanian
Optimal Cash Management under Imperfect Monitoring
WORK IN PROGRESS
Electoral Systems, Fiscal Policies and Labor Regulations
POLICY PAPERS
Monetary Transmission Mechanism in the East African Community: An Empirical Investigation with Hamid Davoodi and Gabor Pinter, Working Paper Series, International Monetary Fund, Washington D.C., 2013, WP/13/39. (Corresponding Book Chapter: The Quest for Regional Integration in the East African Community, Chapter 7)
East African Community: Taking Off? with Martine Guerguil, Catherine McAuliffe, Hamid Davoodi, and Maxwell Opoku-Afari, Regional Economic Outlook: Sub-Saharan Africa, International Monetary Fund, April 2011, 51-73.
Tracking Short-term Dynamics of Economic Activity in Low-income Countries in the Absence of High-frequency GDP Data with Maxwell Opoku-Afari, Working Paper Series, International Monetary Fund, Washington D.C., 2012, WP/12/119.
Impact of the Global Financial Crisis on Exchange Rates and Policies in Sub-Saharan Africa with Nabil Ben Ltaifa and Stella Kaendera, African Departmental Paper, International Monetary Fund, 2009, AFR/09/03.