Working Papers
The COVID-19 pandemic and employment vulnerability in Kerala, India: Does migration status matter? (with Praveena Kodoth, M Parameswaran and Vinoj Abraham)
Can ICT make small beautiful? Examining the Role of ICT in Affecting the Credit Behavior of SMEs in India (with Shreya Biswas)
The Road to Safety: Reexamining the nexus between road infrastructure and crime in rural India (with Shreya Biswas)
Relative occupational aspirations and youth unemployment in India (with Basit Abdullah and Vinoj Abraham)
Articles published in journals
2025
"The road to safety: Examining the nexus between road infrastructure and crime in rural India" (with Shreya Biswas), Journal of Quantitative Economics
"Too risky for businesses? Examining the relationship between crime and firm registrations in India" (with Shreya Biswas), Economic Notes: Review of Banking, Finance and Monetary Economics
2024
"Information and communication technology and female employment in India" (with Tirtha Chatterjee), Information Economics and Policy
"Problem of the plenty- Ethnic fractionalization and female employment in rural India" (with Shreya Biswas), Journal of Quantitative Economics
"Relative occupational aspirations and youth unemployment in India" (with Basit Abdullah and Vinoj Abraham), The Indian Journal of Labour Economics
"Who has ICT access in India? A gender-based analysis", The Indian Economic Journal
"The politics of state-level COVID-19 responses in India: Evidence from the first wave in 2020" (with Tirtha Chatterjee), The Indian Economic Journal
2023
"Preferential employment policies and firm performance: Evidence from Indian public sector enterprises" (with Vinoj Abraham), International Labour Review
"Financial incentives and fertility choices: Evidence from India" (with Tirtha Chatterjee), The Indian Economic Journal
"Altruistic Preference and Crime Perception" (with Rounak Sil and Tirtha Chatterjee), Social Indicators Research
"Effect of COVID-19 lockdown on the profitability of firms in India" (with Rajnish Kumar), Economic Papers: A journal of applied economics and policy
2022
"Effect of testing and social distancing measures on COVID-19 deaths in India: Role of pre-existing socio-economic factors " (with Tirtha Chatterjee), Journal of Public Affairs
"Gender Diversity, Gender Norms and Firm Performance: Evidence from India", Economic Systems (2022)
"State ownership and dividend decisions: economic versus political determinants", Journal of Quantitative Economics (2022)
2021
“Is R&D spending influenced by disinvestment and local political corruption? The case of Indian central public sector enterprises”, Economic Systems (2021)
2020
"Information and communication technology adoption and the demand for female labor: The case of Indian industry " The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy (2020)
“Effect of innovation on corporate social responsibility: does ownership matter? Evidence from Indian manufacturing firms (with Krishnapriya V.S), Economics of Innovation and New Technology (2020)
“Electricity prices and firms’ decisions and outcomes: The case of India after a decade of the Electricity Act” (with Amit Nandan) Energy Economics, 91, 104915 (2020)
“Bribery and firm performance in India: a political economy perspective” Journal of Asian Economics, 68, 101181 (2020)
2019
“Effect of Electricity Act on tariff gap within the subsidizing sector: The case of India” (with Amit Nandan) Energy Policy, 132, 901-914 (2019)
“An empirical analysis of disinvestment policy in India: does ideology matter?” (with Shubhro Sarkar) Journal of Economic Policy Reform, 1-15 (2019)
2018
“The Impact of Ideology on Disinvestment Decisions of a Coalition: A Game Theoretic Analysis” (with Shubhro Sarkar) Public Finance Review, 46(5), 821-849 (2018)
“Ownership effects on R&D spending in India: does external borrowing matter?” International Journal of Technological Learning, Innovation and Development, 10(2), 159-175 (2018)
“Contributions to the exchequer funds by state level public sector enterprises: does political alignment matter?” Constitutional Political Economy, 29(1), 93-113 (2018)
“To Profit or Not to Profit? The Case of State Level Public Sector Enterprises in India” Keio Economic Studies, 53, 53- 70 (2018)
2017
“Public sector enterprise disinvestment in India: Efficiency gains in a political context” Journal of Asian Economics, 53, 18-36 (2017)
“Is Demonetisation a Windfall for the banking sector? Evidence from the Indian stock market” Economics Bulletin, 37(2), 712-722 (2017)
“Influence of Political Alignment and Federal Structure on Public Sector Employment: The case of India” Economics Bulletin, 37(1), 305-313 (2017)
2012
“Mixed duopoly, cross-ownership and partial privatization” (with Rupayan Pal) Journal of Economics, 107(1), 45-70 (2012)