Publications

Peer Reviewed Publications

  1. What’s Across the Border? Re-Evaluating the Cross-Border Evidence on Minimum Wage Effects (with David Neumark and Antonio Rodriguez-Lopez), forthcoming, Journal of Political Economy Microeconomics.
  2. Impact of Colonial Institutions on Economic Growth and Development in India: Evidence from Night lights data (with Karan Talathi), forthcoming, Economic Development and Cultural Change.
  3. Trade Liberalization and Local Development in India: Evidence from Nighttime Lights (with Karan Talathi), Indian Economic Review. 58 (Suppl 1), 61–83,  2023. 
  4. Labor market policies, informality, and misallocation (with Rana Hasan), Indian Growth and Development Review, Vol 15, issue 1, 2022. 
  5.  Monopsonistic Labor Markets and International Trade (with Antonio Rodriguez-Lopez), European Economic Review, Vol 140, November, 2021. (Online Appendix)
  6. International Trade and Employment: Theory and Evidence from Korean Firms (with Jae Yoon Lee, Yang Liang, and Devashish Mitra),  The World Economy, November, 2021.
  7.  International Trade, Wages, and UnemploymentOxford Research Encyclopedia of Economics and Finance, 2020.
  8. Globalization and Taxation: Theory and Evidence (with Giray Gozgor),  European Journal of Political Economy, 59, 296-315, 2019.
  9. Globalization, Inequality, and Redistribution: Theory and Evidence (with Giray Gozgor), The World Economy 40 (12), 2017.
  10. The Impact of Credit Constraints on Exporting Firms: Evidence from the Provision and Subsequent Removal of Subsidized Credit, (with Mudit Kapoor and Jibonayan Raychaudhuri), The World Economy 40 (12), 2017.
  11. Globalization and Risk Averse Workers: The Roles of Labor Market and Trade Policies, Journal of International Economics, 103, 2016.
  12. Trade Costs and Job Flows: Evidence from Establishment-Level Data, (with Jose L. Groizard and Antonio Rodriguez-Lopez), Economic Inquiry, January, 2015.
  13. Offshoring and Jobs: The Myriad Channels of Influence, (with Jose L. Groizard and Antonio Rodriguez-Lopez), European Economic Review, 72, 2014.
  14. Offshoring, Unemployment, and Wages: The role of labor market institutions, Journal of International Economics, 89 (1), January, 2013.
  15. Fairness, Search Frictions, and Offshoring (with Devashish Mitra), The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy (Contributions), 2013.
  16. Globalization and Developing Countries: Introduction, (with Devashish Mitra) Indian Growth and Development Review, 6(1), April, 2013.
  17. Trade Liberalization, Unemployment, and Inequality with Endogenous Job Destruction, International Review of Economics and Finance. 23, June 2012.
  18. Trade Liberalization and Unemployment: Theory and Evidence from India (with R. Hasan, D. Mitra, and R. Ahsan), Journal of Development Economics, 97(2), March, 2012.
  19. Learning vs self-selection: Evidence from Indian exporting firms (with Jibonayan Raychaudhuri), Indian Growth and Development Review, 4(1), 2011.
  20. Offshoring and Unemployment: The Role of Search Frictions and Labor Mobility (with Devashish Mitra), Journal of International Economics, 81(2), July, 2010.
  21. International Trade and Unemployment: Theory and Cross-National Evidence (with Pushan Dutt and Devashish Mitra), Journal of International Economics, 78(1), June, 2009.
  22. The Economics of Offshoring (with Devashish Mitra), Singapore Economic Review, 53(3), December, 2008.
  23. Temporary shocks and offshoring: The roles of external economies and firm heterogeneity (with Devashish Mitra), Journal of Development Economics, Volume 87, Issue 1, August, 2008.
  24. Growth and inequality in closed and open economies: The role of the product cycle, The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy: Vol. 8 : Iss. 1 (Contributions), Article 36, 2008.
  25. Why children work, attend school or stay idle: The roles of ability and household wealth (with Marigee Bacolod), Economic Development and Cultural Change, 56(4), July, 2008.
  26. Trade protection to reduce redistribution (with Amihai Glazer), European Journal of Political Economy, vol 23, September, 2007.
  27. Bayesian inference for the gravity model (with Justin Tobias), Journal of Applied Econometrics, 22(4), June-July, 2007.
  28. Contract Enforcement and International Trade (with Jae Young Lee), Economics and Politics, 19(2), July, 2007.
  29. Corruption, Environmental Resources, and Trade (with Baishali Bakshi), The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy, Vol 6, Issue 1, 2006.
  30. Preferential trade agreements, multinational enterprises, and welfare, Canadian Journal of Economics, May, 2006.
  31. Globalization vs. Skill-biased technological Change: Implications for Unemployment and Wage Inequality (with Mark Moore), Economic Journal, April, 2005.
  32. Trade induced convergence through human capital accumulation in credit-constrained economies, Journal of Development Economics, 72(1), October 2003.
  33. Consumption variety and urban agglomeration (with Amihai Glazer and Mark Gradstein), Regional Science and Urban Economics, lead article, 33(6), October 2003.
  34. Preference Heterogeneity, Wage Inequality, and Trade, (with Amihai Glazer), Journal of International Economics,Vol 60, no 2, August, 2003.
  35. Dynamic Evolution of Income Distribution and Credit-Constrained Human Capital Investment in Open Economies, Journal of International Economics, 55(2), December 2001.
  36. Credit Constraints and the Phenomenon of Child Labor, Journal of Development Economics, 64(1), March 2001.
  37. Market Structure, Capital Inflows and Home Welfare, International Trade Journal, XIV, No. 1, Spring 2000.
  38. An Economic Analysis of Child Labor, Economics Letters, Vol. 64, no.1, July 1999.
  39. Fertility Behavior under Income Uncertainty, European Journal of Population, Vol 15, no 1, March, 1999.

Research Brief

Impact of Colonial Institutions on Economic Growth and Development in India: Evidence from Night lights data (with Karan Talathi), September, 2021, RESEARCH BRIEFS IN ECONOMIC POLICY NO. 269, Cato Institute, 2021.

Special Issue Editor

Special Issue (co-edited with Devashish Mitra) on Globalization and developing countries: Implications for income distribution, institutions, and welfare, Indian Growth and Development Review, Volume 6(1), April 2013.

Books

Lecture Notes in International Trade (An undergraduate course), World Scientific, 2020.

Chapters in Edited Volumes

  1. Global Taxation and National Welfare States (with Rahul Mukherjee), forthcoming, Handbook of Political Economy for Social Policy.
  2. “New-New” Trade Theory : A review of the literature, (with J. Raychaudhuri) in S. Sinha Roy, M. Roy (Eds.), International Trade and Finance: Theory and Empirics. Springer India, 2016.
  3. Chapter on “Globalization Debate in India” (with Devashish Mitra), Handbook of Indian Economy, edited by Chetan Ghate, Oxford University Press, 2012.
  4. Chapter on “Social Protection in Labor Markets Exposed to External Shocks,” (with Devashish Mitra) in Bacchetta, M. and Jansen, M. (eds.) Making Globalization Socially Sustainable, ILO-WTO Co-Publication, 2011.
  5. Entry on “Trade Costs and FDI”, in Ramkishen S. Rajan and Kenneth A. Reinert, eds., Princeton Encyclopedia of the World Economy, Princeton University Press,
  6. Chapter on “Economic Integration”, in Encyclopaedia of Globalization, edited by A. Vaidya, ABC-CLIO, 2006.
  7. “Inequality, Human Capital and Trade: Theory and Evidence”, in Progress in Economics Research, edited by D. Tavidze, Nova Science Publishers, Hauppauge, NY.2003
  8. “Technological Progress and Wage Inequality: The Role of Product Cycle and Trade”, in Proceedings of the 2002 North American Summer Meetings of the Econometric Society, edited by David K. Levine and William Zame., http://www.dklevine.com/proceedings/international-economics.htm

Book Reviews

  1.  Review of “The Economics of Child Labour in the Era of Globalizationîby Chaudhuri and Dwibedi in Indian Growth and Development Review, Emerald Group Publishing, vol. 10(2), pages 117-119, November, 2017.
  2. Review of “Liberalizing Capital Flows: India’s Experiences and Policy Issues” by Renu Kohli, Economic Development and Cultural Change, April, 2007.

Newspaper/web Publications

  1. Lives versus livelihoods: cost-benefit analysis of lockdown needs to be done before opening up (Opinion piece, The Indian Express, May 22, 2020)
  2. How a successful ‘AEZ Model’ can remove India’s structural bottlenecks (Opinion piece, co-written with Devashish Mitra, The Economic Times, May 20, 2020)
  3. Coronavirus and the plight of the poor in India (Opinion piece,  etvbharat.com, April 01, 2020)
  4. Identifying illegal migrants through NRC process will be cumbersome, costs far outweigh benefits (op-ed piece, The Indian Express, January 3rd, 2020)
  5. There Is a Simple Way to Explicitly Decouple the CAA From the NRC (op-ed piece,  The Wire.in, December 26, 2019)
  6. Article 370 and The Paradox of Kashmir’s Accession (op-ed piece,  co-written with Pranay Jha, The Wire.in, September 21, 2019)
  7. PPPs could show the way for employment generation in India (op-ed piece, The Economic Times, April 26, 2019) (theme: job creation challenge in India)
  8. Why India needs unemployment insurance (op-ed piece, Ideas For India, March 11, 2015)