Current Research and Working Papers
Trade liberalisation, resource allocation and productivity growth in Indian manufacturing industry.
Agricultural growth in Kerala: An exploratory analysis
Decentralisation of governance and development in Kerala.
Journal articles
(with Pulapre Balakrishnan) Inflation in India: Dynamics, distributional impact and policy implication, Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, 2025.
(with Pulapre Balakrishnan) What lowered inflation in India: Monetary Policy or commodity prices?, Indian Economic Review, 2022.
(With Pulapre Balakrishnan) Modelling Inflation in India, Journal of Quantitative Economics, 2021
Trade openness and labour market unrest: Evidence from Indian Manufacturing Industry, Journal of Quantitative Economics, 2021.
(with Pulapre Balakrishnan and Mausumi Das) Growth transitions in India: myth and reality, Economic and Political Weekly, vol.56, No. 11, 2021, (Discussion Paper Version)
(with Pulapre Balakrishnan and Mausumi Das) The internal dynamic of Indian economic growth, in Journal of Asian Economics, 2017.
(with Jayasekhar Somasekharan and K N Harilal) Coping with the Standards Regime: Analyzing Export Competitiveness of Indian Seafood Industry, in Sustainable Agriculture Research, 2012.
International trade and R&D investment: Evidence from manufacturing firms in India, in International Journal of Technology and Globalisation, 2010.
International Trade, R&D Spillovers and Productivity: Evidence from Indian Manufacturing Industry, Journal of Development Studies, 2009.
(with Pulapre Balakrishnan) Understanding Economic Growth in India: A Prerequisite in Economic and Political Weekly, 2007.
(with Pulapre Balakrishnan) Understanding India's Growth: Further Observations in Economic and Political Weekly, 2007
(with Pulapre Balakrishnan, K. Pushpangadan and M. Suresh Babu) Liberalisation, Market Power and Productivity Growth in Indian Industry, in Journal of Economic Policy Reform 2006.
Economic Reforms, Technical Change and Efficiency Change: Firm level Evidence from Capital Goods Industries in India in Indian Economic Review, 2004.
Books
(with Amit S Ray and Manmohan Agarwal) What is Economic Development? A Comparative Performance of Indian States, Routledge, 2019
Chapters in Edited Volumes
(with Pulapre Balakrishnan) Economic growth in India: A Longer view, in Dibyendu Maiti, Bishwanath Goldar and K L Krishna (ed.) 75 Years of Growth, Development and Productivity in India: Issues, Measures, Causes and Impacts, Springer, 2025.
Migration, Remittances and Dutch Disease: Evidence from Kerala Economy, in Sunil Mani (ed.) Kerala and World Economy, published by Centre for Development Studies, 2020.
Virtuous Cycle and Economic Growth in India, in Uma Kapila (ed.) Indian Economy: The Great Slowdown? Academic Foundation, New Delhi, 2019
Productivity Growth in a Liberalising Economy: Evidence from Indian Manufacturing Industry in Vinish Kathuria, Rajesh Raj S N, and Kunal Sen (ed.) Productivity in Indian Manufacturing: Measurements, Methods and Analysis, Routledge, New Delhi, June 2012.
(with K. Pushpangadan) Global Financial Crisis and the Migrant Labour Market: A study of Kuwait, in S. Irudaya Rajan (ed.) India Migration Report 2012: Global Financial Crisis, Migration and Remittance, Routledge, New Delhi, 2012.
Trade-induced Structural Change: Implications for Technological Progress and Employment, in K. Pushpangadan and V.N. Balasubramanyam (ed.) Growth, Development and Diversity: India's Record since Liberalisation, Oxford University Press New Delhi, 2012.
(with Pulapre Balakrishnan) Understanding Economic Growth in India: A Prerequisite, in Pulapre Balakrishnan (ed.) Economic Reforms & Growth in India: Essays from Economic and Political Weekly, Orient Blackswan, New Delhi, 2011.
Trade Liberalization and R&D Investment: Evidence from Manufacturing Firms in India, in Natalia Dinello and Wang Shaoguang (ed.) China, India and Beyond: Development Drivers and Limitations, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, UK, 2009.
(with K. Pushpangadan) Service-led Growth of Kerala: Its Nature and Implications, in Sunil Mani et.al (ed.) Kerala's Economy: Crouching Tiger, Sacred Cows, DC Books, Kottayam, 2006.
Other Writings
(with Pulapre Balakrishnan) Effect of food prices on inflation: Is monetary policy an effective tool?, Ideas for India July 19, 2023.
(with Pulapre Balakrishnan) Inflation theory comes full circle, Economic and Political Weekly, vol.58, No. 9, pp. 14-15
(with Pulapre Balakrishnan) The cost of misrepresenting inflation, The Hindu, July 21, 2022
(with Pulapre Balakrishnan) Focus on Agriculture, Frontline, June 17, 2022
(with Pulapre Balakrishnan and Mausumi Das) Growth in India: Narratives and Evidence, Ideas for India, April 2021.
(with Pulapre Balakrishnan) Re-evaluating inflation targeting, The Hindu, March 18, 2021.
Budget 2021-22 and the manufacturing sector, Economic and Political Weekly, vol. 55, No.9, 2021/
(with Pulapre Balakrishnan) Evaluating Inflation Targeting in India, Ideas for India, January 2021.
Virtuous Cycle and Economic Growth in India, Economic and Political Weekly, vol.54, No. 41, pp.16-18.
Industrial Productivity in Mathrubhumi Year Book Plus 2015, published by Mathrubhumi Printing and Publishing Company, Calicut, 2015.