Publications 

Journals

• Bagchi, P., & Sahu, S. K. (2026). Can the performance, achieve, and trade scheme help Indian manufacturing achieve its net-zero goal? Economic Change and Restructuring, 59(2). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10644-026-09992-6

• Malakar, K., Seenivasan, P., & Sahu, S. K. (2026). Drivers of behavioural intention to adopt artificial reefs among coastal fishers: Trust, environmental fit and institutional support in India. Ocean and Coastal Management, 281. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ocecoaman.2026.108322

• Navaneeth, M. S., Siddiqui, I., & Sahu, S. K. (2026). Green Growth Index for India: Drivers, Disparities, and Ramifications. Green and Low-Carbon Economy, 4(1), 115–128. https://doi.org/10.47852/bonviewGLCE42023925

• Pan, W., Padhan, H., Pruseth, S. K., Sahu, S. K., Dash, U., & Gozgor, G. (2026). How Do International Trade Gains Affect Energy Prices? Evidence from the OECD Economies. Politicka Ekonomie, 75, 1–24. https://doi.org/10.18267/j.polek.1538

• Vipin, M., Sahu, S. K., & Seshadri, S. (2026). Quantum analogy-based derivation of an energy efficiency parameter and panel data analysis with a conventional energy efficiency indicator. Discover Environment, 4(1). https://doi.org/10.1007/s44274-026-00733-0

• • Bagchi, P., & Sahu, S. K. (2025). Energy Intensity Policies Should be Measure-Specific: A Learning from Indian Manufacturing. Environmental Claims Journal, 37(4), 518–548. https://doi.org/10.1080/10406026.2025.2464008

  • Bagchi, P., & Sahu, S. K. (2025). The conundrum of porter hypothesis, pollution haven hypothesis, and pollution halo hypothesis: Evidence from the Indian manufacturing sector. Clean Technologies and Environmental Policy, 27(1), 205–217. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10098-024-02886-z

  • Dutta, J., & Sahu, S. K. (2025). Access to cleaner cooking fuel in India: The regional and gender disparities. Environment, Development and Sustainability, 27(5), 11645–11674. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10668-023-04373-9

  • Padhan, H., Behera, D. K., Sahu, S. K., & Dash, U. (2025). Examining the dynamic synthesis between environmental quality, economic globalization, and economic complexity in OECD countries. Environment, Development and Sustainability, 27(2), 3777–3795. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10668-023-04041-y

  • Sahoo, B., Malakar, K., & Sahu, S. K. (2025). Does Corporate Social Responsibility Improve Firm-Level Energy Efficiency? The Case of the Iron and Steel Industries in India. Business Strategy and Development, 8(2). https://doi.org/10.1002/bsd2.70110

  • Sahoo, B., Sahu, S. K., & Malakar, K. (2025). Corporate social responsibility and energy efficiency: Empirical evidence from the manufacturing sector of India. Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, 32(2), 1646–1667. https://doi.org/10.1002/csr.3020

  • Thomas, A. R., Sahu, S. K., & Dash, U. (2025). Illness to poverty in India: A qualitative exploration of hardship financing for healthcare. International Journal for Equity in Health, 24(1). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12939-025-02666-1

• Goswami, R., Gopalaswamy, A. K., & Sahu, S. K. (2024). Controlling Owners and Firm Performance: Empirical investigation from India. Studies in Microeconomics. https://doi.org/10.1177/23210222241277424

• Kanakasabapathi, D., Bansal, S., Dhanavaradhan, M., Seshadri, S., & Sahu, S. K. (2024). Estimation of LCOE and LCCA for a Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Project in India’s Paper Industry: A Comparison between Rooftop Solar and Steam Expander for Power Generation. In Holjevac N., Baskarad T., Zidar M., & Kuzle I. (Eds.), IEEE PES Innov. Smart Grid Technol. Europe, ISGT EUROPE. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. https://doi.org/10.1109/ISGTEUROPE62998.2024.10863679

• Sahu, S. K., Narayanan, K., & Semetko, H. A. (2024). Determinants of Health Expenditure during Extreme Climate Events: An Ex-post Analysis of Households in Rural Odisha of India. Indian Economic Journal, 72(1), 23–38. https://doi.org/10.1177/00194662231203451

• Thomas, A. R., Muhammad, T., Sahu, S. K., & Dash, U. (2024). Examining the factors contributing to a reduction in hardship financing among inpatient households in India. Scientific Reports, 14(1). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-57984-1

• Ashraf, S., & Sahu, S. K. (2023). Resource Dependency and Capital Structure: A Study of Manufacturing Firms in India. In Alareeni B., N. C. C. Middle East Technical University KKTC, via Mersin 10 ,. Güzelyurt, & Hamdan A. (Eds.), Lect. Notes Networks Syst.: 495 LNNS (pp. 993–999). Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-08954-1_83

• Devlina & Sahu, S. K. (2023). Bureaucratic and Societal Determinants of Female-Led Microenterprises in India. Administrative Sciences, 13(3). https://doi.org/10.3390/admsci13030068

• Padhan, H., Behera, D. K., Sahu, S. K., & Dash, U. (2023). Does Corruption Hinderance Economic Growth Despite Surge of Remittance and Capital Inflows Since Economic Liberalization in an Emerging Economy, India. Journal of the Knowledge Economy, 14(1), 426–449. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13132-021-00876-w

• Padhan, H., Sahu, S. K., & Dash, U. (2023). Economic globalization and environmental quality: A study of OECD economies. Environment, Development and Sustainability, 25(9), 10123–10142. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10668-022-02479-0

• Sahu, S. K., & Bagchi, P. (2023). IFDI, OFDI, and divestment: A global level analysis. Journal of Social and Economic Development, 25, 72–100. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40847-023-00260-1

• Sahu, S. K., & Bagchi, P. (2023). Waste from production: An analysis at the firm level. Quality and Quantity, 57(3), 2641–2656. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11135-022-01482-x

• Sahu, S. K., & Goel, A. (2023). Wages and Firm Ownership: A Study of the Manufacturing Sector of India. Studies in Microeconomics, 11(2), 157–183. https://doi.org/10.1177/23210222211051453

• Thomas, A. R., Dash, U., & Sahu, S. K. (2023). Illnesses and hardship financing in India: An evaluation of inpatient and outpatient cases, 2014-18. BMC Public Health, 23(1). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-023-15062-7

• Bagchi, P., Sahu, S. K., Kumar, A., & Tan, K. H. (2022). Analysis of carbon productivity for firms in the manufacturing sector of India. Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 178. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.techfore.2022.121606

• Behera, D. K., Dash, U., & Sahu, S. K. (2022). Exploring the possible sources of fiscal space for health in India: Insights from political regimes. Health Research Policy and Systems, 20(1). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12961-022-00831-4

• Dutta, J., & Sahu, S. K. (2022). Multidimensional aspects of cooking fuel choices in Indian households. Energy, Ecology and Environment, 7(6), 577–603. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40974-022-00257-2

• Jha, C. K., Panda, B., & Sahu, S. K. (2022). Institutions and conflict. Economic Modelling, 113. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econmod.2022.105894

• Padhan, H., Behera, D. K., Sahu, S. K., & Dash, U. (2022). Examining the cyclical pattern of remittance flow, migrants stock, and income of 31 pairs of countries with India. Migration Letters, 19(6), 911–931. https://doi.org/10.33182/ML.V19I6.1655

• Padhan, H., Sahu, S. K., & Dash, U. (2022). Economic globalization and energy consumption patterns in Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development economies. Energy and Environment, 33(7), 1396–1416. https://doi.org/10.1177/0958305X211042537

• Devlina, Rao, R. R., & Sahu, S. K. (2022). Corruption and carbon emission: An empirical investigation. International Journal of Green Economics, 16(4), 355–388. https://doi.org/10.1504/IJGE.2022.10053811

• Sahu, S. K., Bagchi, P., Kumar, A., & Tan, K. H. (2022). Technology, price instruments and energy intensity: A study of firms in the manufacturing sector of the Indian economy. Annals of Operations Research, 313(1), 319–339. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10479-021-04295-7

• Sahu, S. K., Manaloor, V., & Bagchi, P. (2022). An Empirical Analysis of the Impact of COVID-19 on the Power Sector of India. Energy Research Letters, 3(2). https://doi.org/10.46557/001c.32617

• Thomas, A., Dash, U., & Sahu, S. (2022). HPR91 Disease-Specific Hardship Financing in India: A Pooled Cross-Section Analysis of Inpatient and Outpatient Cases. Value in Health, 25(12), S248–S249. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jval.2022.09.1221

• Padhan, H., Sahu, S. K., & Dash, U. (2021). Non-linear analysis of international reserve, trade and trilemma in India. Journal of Economic Asymmetries, 23. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jeca.2020.e00191

• Paul, B., Patnaik, U., Murari, K. K., Sahu, S. K., & Muralidharan, T. (2021). The Impact of COVID-19 on the Household Economy of India. Indian Journal of Labour Economics, 64(4), 867–882. https://doi.org/10.1007/s41027-021-00352-8

• Ramaswamy, S., Choutagunta, A., & Sahu, S. K. (2021). Evaluating Asian Free Trade Agreements: What Does Gravity Model Tell Us? Foreign Trade Review, 56(1), 60–70. https://doi.org/10.1177/0015732520961330

• • Bagchi, P., & Sahu, S. K. (2020). Energy Intensity, Productivity and Pollution Loads: Empirical Evidence from Manufacturing Sector of India. Studies in Microeconomics, 8(2), 194–211. https://doi.org/10.1177/2321022220930968

  • Paul, S., Sahu, S. K., & Jacob, T. I. (2020). Aggregate Fluctuations and Technological Shocks: The Indian Case. In FDI, Technology and Innovation (pp. 245–255). Springer Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-3611-3_11

  • Sahu, S. K., & Patnaik, U. (2020). Foreign direct investments and environmental policies: A meta-analysis. In FDI, Technology and Innovation (pp. 205–221). Springer Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-3611-3_9

  • Sahu, S. K., & Patnaik, U. (2020). The trade-offs between GHGs emissions, income inequality and productivity. Energy and Climate Change, 1. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.egycc.2020.100014

• • Sahu, S. K., & Kamboj, S. (2019). Decomposition analysis of ghg emissions in emerging economies. Journal of Economic Development, 44(3), 59–77. https://ideas.repec.org//a/jed/journl/v44y2019i3p59-77.html

• • Sahu, S. K., & Mehta, D. (2018). Determinants Of Energy And CO2 Emission Intensities: A Study Of Manufacturing Firms In India. Singapore Economic Review, 63(2), 389–407. https://doi.org/10.1142/S0217590817400173

• • Sahu, S. K. (2017). Firm performance and diversification: An empirical investigation of chemical sector in India. International Journal of Sustainable Economy, 9(1), 56–71. https://doi.org/10.1504/IJSE.2017.080862

  • Sahu, S. K., & Agarwal, N. (2017). Inter-firm differences in mergers and acquisitions: A study of the pharmaceutical sector in India. Journal of Economic Studies, 44(5), 861–878. https://doi.org/10.1108/JES-12-2015-0239

• • Narayanan, K., & Sahu, S. K. (2016). Effects of climate change on household economy and adaptive responses among agricultural households in eastern coast of India. Current Science, 110(7), 1240–1250. http://www.jstor.org/stable/24908013

  • Sahu, S. K., & Narayanan, K. (2016). Environmental Certification and Technical Efficiency: A Study of Manufacturing Firms in India. Journal of Industry, Competition and Trade, 16(2), 191–207. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10842-015-0213-9

  • Sahu, S. K., & Sharma, H. (2016). Productivity, Energy Intensity and Output: A Unit Level Analysis of the Indian Manufacturing Sector. Journal of Quantitative Economics, 14(2), 283–300. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40953-016-0034-7

• • Narayanan, K., & Sahu, S. K. (2014). Energy Consumption Response to Climate Change: Policy Options for India. IIM Kozhikode Society & Management Review, 3(2), 123–133. https://doi.org/10.1177/2277975214544014

  • Sahu, S. K., & Narayanan, K. (2014). Energy use patterns and firm performance: Evidence from Indian industries. Journal of Energy and Development, 40(1), 111–133. http://www.jstor.org/stable/24813096

• • Sahu, S. K., & Narayanan, K. (2013). CO2 emission and firm heterogeneity: A study of metals and metal-based industries in India. Int. J. Energy Technol. Policy, 9(2), 110–127. https://doi.org/10.1504/IJETP.2013.058110

  • Sahu, S. K., & Narayanan, K. (2013). Labour and energy intensity: A study of the pulp and paper industries in India. In Hum. Cap. And development: The Indian Experience (pp. 55–76). Springer India. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-81-322-0857-0_5

• • Kumar Sahu, S., & Narayanan, K. (2011). Total factor productivity and energy intensity in Indian manufacturing: A cross-sectional study. International Journal of Energy Economics and Policy, 1(2), 47–58. https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84892144254&partnerID=40&md5=c2a10fa235198ac4450061ae3a08c13a

  • Sahu, S., & Narayanan, K. (2011). Determinants of Energy Intensity in Indian Manufacturing Industries: A Firm Level Study. Eurasian Journal of Economics and Business, 4, 13–30. https://www.ejbe.org/index.php/%20EJBE/article/view/54

Book Chapters

• Bagchi, P., Jha, C. K., & Sahu, S. K. (2026). Corruption and SDG 7: Affordable and Clean Energy. In Corruption and the Sustainable Development Goals (pp. 100–116). Taylor and Francis. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003570912-8

• Pinninti, S. P., Vivekanandan, A. V., Elangovan, K., M., I. A., Mondal, S., Seshadri, S., Sahu, S. K., & Mehta, N. (2026). Electric Vehicles Charging Infrastructure Prediction in the West Midlands Combined Authority, UK: In A. Sharma, D. Potoglou, F. Miranda, J. Radcliffe, & J. M. Anderies (Eds.), Clean Energy and Equitable Transportation Solutions (pp. 203–224). IGI Global Scientific Publishing. https://doi.org/10.4018/979-8-3373-9908-9.ch012

• Sahu, S. K., & Vignesh, K. (2025). Corporate Tax and Carbon Emissions in the Indian Manufacturing Sector. In K. R. Shanmugam (Ed.), India’s Public Finance and Policy Challenges in the 2020s (pp. 217–228). Springer Nature Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-96-2860-5_12

• Narayanan, K., & Sahu, S. K. (2020). Firm-Level Productivity and Exports: The Case of Manufacturing Sector in India. In S. C. Aggarwal, D. K. Das, & R. Banga (Eds.), Accelerators of India’s Growth—Industry, Trade and Employment (pp. 159–175). Springer Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-32-9397-7_8

• Patnaik, U., & Sahu, S. K. (2018). Foreign Direct Investment and Business Cycle Co-movement: Evidence from Asian Countries. In N. S. Siddharthan & K. Narayanan (Eds.), Globalisation of Technology (pp. 63–88). Springer Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-5424-2_4

• Sahu, S. K., & Das, S. (2016). Impact of Agricultural Related Technology Adoption on Poverty: A Study of Select Households in Rural India. In N. S. Siddharthan & K. Narayanan (Eds.), Technology (pp. 141–156). Springer Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-1684-4_8

• Sahu, S. K., & Narayanan, K. (2016). Exports and Participation in CDM in Technology Intensive Industries in India. In F. De Beule & K. Narayanan (Eds.), Globalization of Indian Industries (pp. 121–140). Springer Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-0083-6_6

• Narayanan, K., Parthasarathy, D., Inamdar, A. and Sahu, S.K., 2018. Who is vulnerable? Evidence from districts of the east coast of India, In Climate Change and Vulnerable Indian Coast, p. 89-100, Edited by Ramesh. R, Bhatt J.R. Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, New Delhi, ISBN 978-93-5346-195-9

Book

• Sahu, S. K. (2009). An Economic Analysis of Watershed: A Developing Country Perspective. VDM Verlag. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Economic-Analysis-Watershed-Developing-Perspective/dp/3639210557

Other Papers

• Sahu, S. K., & Seshadri, S. (2022). Industrial Energy Demand and Technological Change: A Firm-level Analysis of the Manufacturing Sector of India. Productivity: A Quarterly Journal of The National Productivity Council, 62(2), 126–138. https://doi.org/10.32381/PROD.2021.62.02.4

• Sahu, S. K., & Roy, I. (2018). Determinants of Outsourcing in the Automobile Sector in India. Indian Journal of Industrial Relations, 54(1), 37–53. JSTOR. https://www.jstor.org/stable/26536511

• Sahu, S. K., & Narayanan, K. (2015). Energy Intensity and Technology Sourcing: A Study of Manufacturing Firms in India. Bulletin of Energy Economics (BEE), 3(2), 66–74.

• Sahu, K. S., & Narayanan, K. (2015). Technology Import, R&D Spillovers and Exports: A Study of the Automobile Sector in India. Review of Development and Change, 20(2), 257–276. https://doi.org/10.1177/0972266120150213

• Sahu, S. K., & Narayanan, K. (2015). Stock Excess Return, R&D Intensity, and Market Concentration: A Study of IT Firms in India. Asian Journal of Innovation and Policy, 4(2), 200–216. https://accesson.kr/ajip/v.4/2/200/42433

• Sahu, S. K., & Narayanan, K. (2014). Carbon dioxide emissions from Indian manufacturing industries: Role of energy and technology intensity. Review of Business and Economics Studies, (1), 60–73. https://ideas.repec.org/a/scn/031730/15688965.html

• Sahu, S. K., & Narayanan, K. (2014). CO2 Emission from Fossil Fuel Consumption and Technology Intensity: A Study of Indian Manufacturing Industries. Review of Market Integration, 6(3), 269–296. https://doi.org/10.1177/0974929215582243

• Sahu, S. K., & Narayanan, K. (2010). ‪Determinants of Energy Intensity in Indian Manufacturing Industries: A Cross Sectional Study. http://www.electricalindia.in/

• Sahu, S., & Narayanan, K. (2010). Decomposition of Industrial Energy Consumption in Indian Manufacturing: The Energy Intensity Approach. Journal of Environmental Management and Tourism, I, 22–38. https://ideas.repec.org/p/pra/mprapa/21719.html

• Sahu, S., & Bishoyi, D. (2007). Role of agricultural reforms in India and China – An analysis (pp. 160–176). https://www.researchgate.net/publication/299404313_Role_agricultural_reforms_in_India_and_China_-_An_analysis