I am an Assistant Professor of Economics and Public Policy at the Indian School of Business. I received my Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Minnesota. Previously, I served as a Research Analyst at the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis and the International Monetary Fund.

Fields: Public Economics, Monetary Economics, Macroeconomics

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PUBLISHED WORK

Contract Enforcement and Preventive Healthcare: Theory and Evidence, Review of Economic Dynamics, Volume 51, 2023


WORKING PAPERS

Impact of Third-party Reporting on Corporate Tax Evasion: Evidence from Indian Tax Records with Sumit Agarwal, Shashwat Alok, and Tejaswi Velayudhan

Are Minimum Wages and Income Taxes Complements or Substitutes in Addressing Rising Skill Premia? with Sergio Salgado

Bank Coordination and Monetary Transmission: Evidence from India with Krishnamurthy Subramanian

Optimal Cash Management under Imperfect Monitoring


WORK IN PROGRESS

Electoral Systems, Fiscal Policies and Labor Regulations


POLICY PAPERS

Monetary Transmission Mechanism in the East African Community: An Empirical Investigation with Hamid Davoodi and Gabor Pinter, Working Paper Series, International Monetary Fund, Washington D.C., 2013, WP/13/39. (Corresponding Book Chapter: The Quest for Regional Integration in the East African Community, Chapter 7)

East African Community: Taking Off? with Martine Guerguil, Catherine McAuliffe, Hamid Davoodi, and Maxwell Opoku-Afari, Regional Economic Outlook: Sub-Saharan Africa, International Monetary Fund, April 2011, 51-73.

Tracking Short-term Dynamics of Economic Activity in Low-income Countries in the Absence of High-frequency GDP Data with Maxwell Opoku-Afari, Working Paper Series, International Monetary Fund, Washington D.C., 2012, WP/12/119.

Impact of the Global Financial Crisis on Exchange Rates and Policies in Sub-Saharan Africa with Nabil Ben Ltaifa and Stella Kaendera, African Departmental Paper, International Monetary Fund, 2009, AFR/09/03.