Publications
JOURNAL ARTICLES
'Family-leave Mandates and Female Labor at U.S. Firms: Evidence from a Trade Shock', with Fariha Kamal and Cristina J. Tello-Trillo, forthcoming, Review of Economics and Statistics. CES Working Paper
'Import Competition, Labour Regulations and Firm Outsourcing', with Pavel Chakraborty and Devashish Mitra, Journal of Development Economics,168. Working Paper
Media: VoxEU
'Trade Liberalization, Roads and Firm Productivity' (2021), with Matteo Fiorini and Marco Sanfilippo, Journal of Development Economics, 153. IGC Working Paper
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Apatov, E and Asha Sundaram, ‘Immigration and ‘Brain Waste’: An Analysis of APEC Immigrants in New Zealand’ (2020), with Eyal Apatov, Policy Quarterly, Special Issue, New Zealand and the Asia Pacific, 16(4), November 2020.
'The Effects of Labor Regulation on Firms and Exports: Theory and Evidence from Indian Apparel' (2020), with Rana Hasan and Aashish Mehta, Journal of Comparative Economics, 49(1), 183-200. Working Paper
'Importing and Productivity: An Analysis of South African Manufacturing Firms' (2020), with Lawrence Edwards and Marco Sanfilippo, Review of Industrial Organization, 57, 411–432.
'Trade Liberalization and Firm Sales Volatility: Evidence from India’ (2019), Review of International Economics, 27(5), 1409-1426.
‘Do Institutions Determine Economic Geography? Evidence from the Concentration of Foreign Suppliers’ (2019), with Fariha Kamal, Journal of Urban Economics, 110, 89-101.
'Price-setting Behaviour and Competition in Developing Countries: An Analysis of Retail Outlets in Lesotho' (2018), with Mamello Nchake and Lawrence Edwards, Journal of Industry, Competition and Trade, 18(4), 529-547.
‘Importing and firm export performance: New evidence from South Africa’ (2018), with Lawrence Edwards and Marco Sanfilippo, South African Journal of Economics, 86(S1), 79-95. UNU-WIDER Working Paper
‘Trade Liberalization and Reallocation of Production: An Analysis of Indian Manufacturing’ (2017), with Lawrence Edwards, Review of International Economics, 25(3), 677-693. ERSA Working Paper
‘Labor Regulations, Employment and Wages: Evidence from India’s Apparel Sector’ (2017), with Rana Hasan, Nidhi Kapoor and Aashish Mehta, Asian Economic Policy Review, 12, 70-90.
‘Buyer-Seller Relationships in International Trade: Do Your Neighbors Matter?’ (2016), with Fariha Kamal, Journal of International Economics, 102, 128-140. CES Working Paper
‘Country of Origin and Employment Prospects among Immigrants: An Analysis of South-south and North-south migrants to South Africa’ (2015), with Amos Peters, Applied Economics Letters, 22(17), 1415-1418. SALDRU Working Paper
‘A Disaggregated Analysis of Product Price Integration in the Southern African Development Community’ (2015), with Neil Balchin and Lawrence Edwards, Journal of African Economies, 24(3), 390-415. ERSA Working Paper
‘The Impact of Trade Liberalization on Micro Enterprises: Do Banks Matter? Evidence from Indian Manufacturing’ (2015) , Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 77(6), 832-853.
‘The Determinants of Capital Intensity in Manufacturing: The Role of Factor Endowments and Factor Market Imperfections’ (2013), with Rana Hasan and Devashish Mitra, World Development, 51, 91–103.
Media: Ideas for India
‘What Explains the High Capital Intensity of Indian Manufacturing?’ (2013), with Rana Hasan and Devashish Mitra, Indian Growth and Development Review, 6(2).
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‘External Liberalization by India and China: Recent Experience and Future Challenges’ (2013), with Arvind Panagariya, Indian Growth and Development Review, Special Issue on Globalization and Developing Countries, 6(1), 8 – 34.
BOOK CHAPTERS AND OTHER PUBLICATIONS
Sundaram, Asha, 'India's RCEP Exit and its Regional Future', East Asia Forum Quarterly, 14 (1), January-March, 2022.
Sharma, R and A Sundaram, ‘Non-Tariff Measures in India’, Non-Tariff Measures in China, India, Japan, Korea, and New Zealand (eds. Lili Yan Ing, Denise Penelo Rial, and Rizqy Anandhika), Jakarta: Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East-Asia (ERIA), forthcoming.
Sundaram A (2018), Book Review, “Richard Baldwin: The Great Convergence: Information Technology and the New Globalization”, New Global Studies, ed. Chanda, Nayan, Iriye, Akira, Mazlish, Bruce and Sassen, Saskia, Degruyter.
Sundaram, Asha, ‘Export Controls’, in C. Fred Bergsten, Gary Clyde Hufbauer, Sean Miner and Tyler Moran (Eds.) Bridging the Pacific: Toward Free Trade and Investment Between China and the United States, Peterson Institute of International Economics, Washington D.C., October 2014.
Sundaram, Asha and J David Richardson, ‘Peers and Tiers and US High-Tech Export Controls: A New Approach to Estimating Export Shortfalls’, Peterson Institute of International Economics Working Paper # WP 13-5, June 2013.
Richardson, J David and Asha Sundaram, ‘Sizing Up US Export Disincentives for a New Generation of National Security Export Controls’, Peterson Institute of International Economics Policy Brief # PB13-13, May 2013.
Sundaram, Asha; Ahsan, Reshad N. and Devashish Mitra, ‘Complementarity Between Formal and Informal Manufacturing in India,’ in Jagdish Bhagwati and Arvind Panagariya (Eds.) Reforms and Economic Transformation in India, Oxford University Press, October 2012.
Krishna, Pravin; Mitra, Devashish and Asha Sundaram, ‘Do Lagging Regions Benefit from Trade?’, in Ghani, E (Ed.) The Poor Half Billion in South Asia: What is Holding Back Lagging Regions, Oxford University Press, December 2010. NBER Working Paper