Ongoing Work

1. The Reserve Army of Labor: Segmented Frictional Labor Markets and Firm Dynamics

2. Firm Lifecycle and Labor Market Power: Theory and Evidence from India 

(with Anmol Somanchi) 

3. The 'Missing Middle' in Indian Manufacturing: Myth or a Real Phenomenon?

(with B.N. Goldar)

4. Misallocation, Labor Informality and TFP: Theory & Evidence from the Formal Indian Manufacturing Sector 

Master's Thesis for the validation of the MRes Economics program at the Paris School of Economics.

Supervision: François Fontaine (personal website link)

Conferences Papers 

1. The Role of Services in India's Post-Reform Economic Growth

Authors: B. N. Goldar, P. C. Das and S. Dutta

Presented at the Seventh WORLD KLEMS Conference, University of Manchester, 2022. (Conference Link) 

2. Productivity Growth & Global Slowdown: Insights from Emerging Markets & Developing Economies and Advanced Economies

Authors: D. K. Das, A. A. Erumban and S. Dutta

Presented at the 36th IARIW General Conference, August 23-27, 2021.  (Conference Link)

3.  Industry Origins of Growth and Productivity in India: The Manufacturing Story                                                                           

Authors: D. K. Das and S. Dutta                                                                                                                                                                                                                   

Presented at the Sixth WORLD KLEMS Conference, Harvard University, March 9-17, 2021 .  (Conference Link)

Publications

1.  Analysis of Innovation: A Game Theoretic Model

Authors: S. Dutta and V. Bansal 

An attempt to dabble in imperfect competition by a couple of (then) undergraduate students.