Reshad Ahsan
Welcome to my website! I am an Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Melbourne. My research interests are at the intersection of International Trade and Development Economics with a particular focus on studying the labor-market effects of trade in developing countries. You can find out more information about my research from my curriculum vitae.
Starting in 2022, I am also the Director of the PhD program in the Department of Economics. You can find out more about our program here. Please feel free to reach out to me if you have any queries about our PhD program!
E-mail: rahsan (at) unimelb (dot) edu (dot) au
Working papers
1. Does Social Compliance Lead to Export Upgrading? Evidence from Bangladesh (with Kazi Iqbal).
2. Import Competition, Knowledge Spillovers, and Innovation (with Pavel Chakraborty).
3. Female Income, Gender Norms, and Son Preference (with Diana Contreras Suarez and Mohammad Moniruzzaman).
4. Atlantic Trade and the Decline of Conflict in Europe (with Laura Panza and Yong Song) CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP14206, conditionally accepted at The Economic Journal.
5. The Impact of COVID-19 on Exports: Decomposing the Demand and Supply Channels (with Kazi Iqbal).
Publications
1. When it Rains, It Pours: Estimating the Spatial Spillover Effect of Rainfall (with Farzana Hossain), Environmental and Resource Economics, 82: June 2022, 327-354.
2. How Does Violence Affect Exporters? Evidence from Political Strikes in Bangladesh (with Kazi Iqbal) Review of International Economics, 28(3): August 2020, 599-625.
3. Trade Liberalization and Intergenerational Occupational Mobility in Urban India (with Arpita Chatterjee) Journal of International Economics, 109(1): November 2017, 138-152.
4. Does Corruption Attenuate the Effect of Red Tape on Exports? Economic Inquiry, 55(3): July 2017, 1192-1212.
5. International Trade and Unionization: Evidence from India (with Arghya Ghosh and Devashish Mitra) Canadian Journal of Economics, 50(2): May 2017, 398-425.
6. Trade Liberalization and Labor’s Slice of the Pie: Evidence from Indian Firms (with Devashish Mitra) Journal of Development Economics, 108(1): May 2014, 1-16.
7. Input Tariffs, Speed of Contract Enforcement, and the Productivity of Firms in India Journal of International Economics, 90(1): May 2013, 181-192.
8. Trade Liberalization and Unemployment: Theory and Evidence from India (with Rana Hasan, Devashish Mitra, and Priya Ranjan) Journal of Development Economics, 97(2): March 2012, 269-280.
Other Papers
Using Migration Patterns to Predict COVID-19 Risk in Developing Countries (with Kazi Iqbal, Mahreen Khan, Ahmed Mushfiq Mobarak, and Abu Shonchoy). [Download] [Y-Rise Policy Brief] [Pursuit Article]
Can The Whole Actually Be Greater Than The Sum Of Its Parts? Lessons From India's Growing Economy And Its Evolving Structure (with Devashish Mitra) in Structural Change, Fundamentals, and Growth, edited by Margaret McMillan, Dani Rodrik, and Claudia Sepulveda, IFPRI, May 2017.
For the Student: Offshoring and Wages Australian Economic Review, 46(1): March 2013, 110-118.
Complementarity between Formal and Informal Manufacturing in India: The Role of Policies and Institutions" (with Devashish Mitra and Asha Sundaram) in Reforms and Economic Transformation in India, edited by Jagdish Bhagwati and Arvind Panagariya, Oxford University Press, January 2012.