Prasad Krishnamurthy
Prasad Krishnamurthy
Professor of Law
U.C. Berkeley Law School
685 Simon Hall
Berkeley, CA 94720
(510) 643-5822
prasad@law.berkeley.edu
prasad@econ.berkeley.edu
PUBLISHED AND COMPLETED PAPERS
"Forgiving Student Loans: Progressivity, Inequality, and Welfare" (2023)
"Merger Deregulation, Wages, and Inequality: Evidence from the U.S. Banking Industry" (2023)
Under review
"An Economic Case Against and for Public Banking" (2022)
R&R at the Journal of Financial Regulation
"George Stigler on His Head: The Consequences of Restrictions on Competition in (Bank) Regulation"
Yale Journal on Regulation, Vol. 35, Issue 3 (2018)
"Regulating Against Bubbles" (with Ryan Bubb)
University of Pennsylvania Law Review, Vol. 163, Issue 6 (2015)
Harvard Business Law Review, Vol. 4, Issue 1 (2014)
"Rules, Standards, and Complexity in Capital Regulation"
Journal of Legal Studies, Vol. 43 (June 2014)
"Banking Deregulation, Local Credit Supply, and Small Business Growth"
Journal of Law and Economics, Vol. 58 (Nov. 2015)
"Affirmative Action and Stereotypes in Higher Education Admissions" (with Aaron Edlin)
NBER Working Paper (This Version: April 2015) Slides
"Public Distribution System Reforms and Consumption in Chhattisgarh: An Empirical Analysis" (with Vikram Pathania and Sharad Tandon)
Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. XLIX No. 8 (Feb. 22, 2014)
"Food Price Subsidies and Nutrition: Evidence from State Reforms to India’s Public Distribution System" (with Vikram Pathania and Sharad Tandon)
Economic Development and Cultural Change 66, No. 1 (October 2017)
WORKING PAPERS
MEDIA
"Are Public Banks Something We Should Consider?"
LA Daily Journal (November 2013)
"Feds Should Use Inventive Methods to Restructure Home Debt"
Oakland Tribune (January 2013)
"Wage Garnishment and Household Debt in California"
The Network (October 2012)
