Selected papers
S. Rathi, A. Shaw and A. S. Chakrabarti, Consumption and borrowing: Land-size inequality and the effects of cash transfers, Journal of Economic Inequality, (2025).
Coverage: Frontline article on Raythu Bandhu
A. S. Chakrabarti, K. Mahajan and S. Tomar, Trade disruptions and reshoring, American Economic Journal: Applied Economics 17 (2025) 1-34.
This version subsumes an earlier version circulated as Aggregate shocks, domestic trade collapse and regional realignment, SSRN link .
Coverage: VoxDev (CEPR)
A. S. Chakrabarti and S. Tomar, Multi-plant firms and the heavy-tail of firm size distribution, Canadian Journal of Economics 24 (2024) 1028–1041; older version - SSRN link.
A. S. Chakrabarti, A. Misra and M. Mohaghegh, Inequality and income mobility: The case of targeted and universal interventions in India, Journal of Economic Inequality, (2024); older version - SSRN link .
M. Aggarwal, A. S. Chakrabarti and C. Chatterjee, Movies, stigma and choice: Evidence from the pharmaceutical industry, Health Economics, 32 (2023) 1019.
P. Chakraborty, A. S. Chakrabarti and C. Chatterjee, Cross-border environmental regulation and firm labor demand, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management 117 (2023) 102753.
M. Aggarwal, A. S. Chakrabarti, C. Chatterjee and M. J. Higgins, Research and market structure: Evidence from pathogenic outbreaks, NBER working paper version: https://www.nber.org/papers/w28840 , Research Policy 52 (2023) 104633.
S. Rathi, A. S. Chakrabarti, C. Chatterjee, A. Hegde, Pandemics and technology engagement: New evidence from m-Health intervention during COVID-19 in India, Review of Development Economics, 26 (2022) 1-34.
A. Mishra, P. Srivastava and A. S. Chakrabarti, `Too central to fail' firms in bi-layered financial networks: Linkages in the US corporate bond and stock markets, Quantitative Finance, 22 (2022) 943-971; older version- SSRN link .
S. Kumar, A. Bansal and A. S. Chakrabarti, Ripples on financial networks, European Journal of Finance, special issue on Economic Science with Heterogeneous Interacting Agents, 28 (2022) 1-22.
M. Aggarwal, A. S. Chakrabarti and P. Dev, Breaking "bad" links: Impact of Companies Act 2013 on Indian corporate network, Social Networks, 62 (2020) 12-23.
C. Kuyyamudi, A. S. Chakrabarti and S. Sinha, Emergence of frustration signals systemic risk, Physical Review E, 99 (2019) 052306.
A. S. Chakrabarti, Dispersion in macroeconomic volatility between the core and periphery of the international trade network, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 88 (2018) 31-50.
K. Sharma, B. Gopalakrishnan, A. S. Chakrabarti and A. Chakraborti, Financial fluctuations anchored to economic fundamentals: A mesoscopic network approach, Scientific Reports (Nature publishing group), 7 (2017) 8055.
A. S. Chakrabarti and R. Lahkar, Productivity dispersion and output fluctuations: An evolutionary model, Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 137 (2017) 339-360.
A. S. Chakrabarti and A. Sengupta, Productivity differences and inter-state migration in the U.S.: A multilateral gravity approach, Economic Modelling, 61 (2017) 156-168.
A. S. Chakrabarti, Inflationary effects of monetary policies in newly industrialized economies with frictions in labor and capital mobility, Journal of Macroeconomics, 50 (2016) 151-167.
A. S. Chakrabarti, S. Sinha, ‘Hits’ emerge through self-organized coordination in collective response of free agents, Physical Review E, 94 (2016) 042302.
Coverage: Research Matters
A. Ghosh, A. Chatterjee, A. S. Chakrabarti and B. K. Chakrabarti, Zipf’s law in city size from a resource utilization model, Physical Review E, 90 (2014) 042815.
M. Lallouache, A. S. Chakrabarti, A. Chakraborti and B. K. Chakrabarti, Opinion formation in the kinetic exchange models: Spontaneous symmetry breaking transition, Physical Review E, 82 (2010) 056112.
Work in progress
A. S. Chakrabarti, K. Mahajan and S. Tomar, Price shock and supply chain reorganization, (work in progress).
A. S. Chakrabarti, P. Chakraborty, A. Dutt, War and trade diversion, SSRN link , (submitted).
Coverage: VoxEU (CEPR)
A. S. Chakrabarti and S. Tomar, Granular origin of comovement in fluctuations, SSRN link , (draft under revision).
A. S. Chakrabarti, R. Gudibande and A. Shaw, Conflicts and consumption, (work in progress).
S. Rathi, A. S. Chakrabarti, C. Chatterjee, A. V. Das and R. Narayanan, Technology replacement in emerging economies: Evidence from electronic medical records, (draft under revision).
A. S. Chakrabarti, C. Chatterjee and S. Gupta, Liquidity shocks and healthcare expenditure: Evidence from India, (submitted).
Dormant projects
S. Rathi, A. S. Chakrabarti, C. Chatterjee, A. V. Das and R. Narayanan, Network effects in organizational knowledge production.
J. Bhachech, A. S. Chakrabarti, A. Das and T. Majilla, Deposit channel of comovement in regional GDP.
In addition, I have worked on networks and complex systems, and I have published papers in journals in the fields of statistical physics and network science. Please refer to the corresponding page for those references (see the subpage 'Other writings').