PUBLISHED WORK

• Economic inequality and crime across cities in India: Evidence using nighttime lights data (with Christopher Kuruvilla Mathen, Siddhartha Chattopadhyay, and Abhijit Mukherjee), PLoS One, 20(8), August 2025.

• The asymmetric impact of fiscal decentralization on ecological footprint- accounting for methodological refinements and globalization facets (with Atrayee Choudhury), The Journal of Economic Asymmetries, Volume 31, June 2025.

• Which nighttime lights data better represent India's economic activities and regional inequality? (with Christopher Kuruvilla Mathen, Siddhartha Chattopadhyay, and Abhijit Mukherjee), Asian Development Review, Volume 41 (2), 2024.

• Reconciling the mixed evidence in the fiscal decentralization-government size nexus using panel quantile regression (with Atrayee Choudhury), Economic Modelling, Volume 125, August 2023, 106347.

• Cross-country variations in economic complexity: the role of individualism (with Garima Maurya). Economic Modelling, Volume 115, October 2022, 105961.

• Revisiting the nexus between fiscal decentralization and government size- the role of ethnic fragmentation (with Atrayee Choudhury). European Journal of Political Economy Volume 75, December 2022, 102193.

• Fiscal decentralization, regional disparity, and the role of corruption (with Nupur Nirola and Atrayee Choudhury). The Annals of Regional Science, 2022. 10.1007/s00168-021-01102-w.

• The effect of language on financial inclusion (with Shafkat Shafi Dar). Economic Modelling, Volume 106, January 2022. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econmod.2021.105693.

• Using night time lights to find regional inequality in India and its relationship with economic development (with Abhishek Singhal, Siddhartha Chattopadhyay, Abhijit Mukherjee and Soumendra N Bhanja). PLoS ONE 15(11): e0241907. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0241907, 2020.

• Forecasting inflation for India with the Phillips Curve: Evidence from internet search data (with Saakshi). Economics Bulletin, Volume 40, Issue 3, 2372-2379, 2020.

• Analyzing the importance of forward orientation in financial development- economic growth nexus: Evidence from big data (with Taniya Ghosh and Prashant Mehul Parab). Forthcoming in Journal of Behavioral Finance, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1080/15427560.2020.1772795

• Inflation Expectations of Households in India: Role of Oil Prices, Economic Policy Uncertainty, and Spillover of Global Financial Uncertainty (with Taniya Ghosh and Siddhartha Chattopadhyay). Bulletin of Economic Research, Volume 72 (3), 230-251, 2021.

Earlier version: Household’s inflation expectations in India: Role of economic policy uncertainty and global financial uncertainty spillover (with Taniya Ghosh and Siddhartha Chattopadhyay), IGIDR Working Paper 2017-007, 2017.

• Epidemiology of inflation expectations and internet search- An analysis for India (with Saakshi and Siddhartha Chattopadhyay). Journal of Economic Interaction and Coordination, Volume 15, Issue 3, 649-671, 2020. DOI: 10.1007/s11403-019-00255-4.

• Revisiting the Wagner’s law for Indian states using second generation panel cointegration (with Nupur Nirola). Economic Change and Restructuring, Volume 53, Issue 2, 241-263, 2020. DOI: 10.1007/s10644-018-9237-6.

• Do different measures of inflation expectations matter? A comparative analysis for India. (with Saakshi; Revise and resubmit, 2019).

• Observing long term trends and effects of sanitation development and satellite-based nightlight increase on water-borne pathogen and human health (with Abhijit Mukherjee, Srimanti Dutta Gupta, Siddhartha Chattopadhyay, Soumendra Nath Bhanja, Animesh Bhattachayra, Swagata Chakraborty, Soumyajit Sarkar, Tilottoma Ghosh, Jayanta Bhattacharya). Scientific Reports (Nature), Volume 9, Article number: 15193, 2019.

• An analysis of heterogeneity in inflation expectations across cities in India (with Saakshi). Journal of Economic Studies, Volume 46, Issue 5, 1116 - 1136, 2019.

• Estimation of unobserved inflation expectations in India using state-space model (with Siddhartha Chattopadhyay and Saakshi Jha). Theoretical Economics Letters, 9 (5), 1480-1488, 2019. DOI: 10.4236/tel.2019.95095.

• The interactive impact of government size and quality of institutions on economic growth- Evidence from the states of India (with Nupur Nirola). Heliyon, 5(3), March 2019.

• A simple model of currency notes withdrawal (with Siddhartha Chattopadhyay). Theoretical Economics Letters, 8, 3196-3202, 2018.

• Business cycle accounting for India in a multi-sector dynamic general equilibrium model, Journal of Developing Areas, Volume 52, No.1, Pages 211-234, Winter 2018.

• Transition accounting for India in a multi-sector dynamic general equilibrium model (with John Bailey Jones), Economic Change and Restructuring, Springer, Volume 50, Issue 4, Pages 299–339, November 2017.

• Source of service sector TFP growth in India- Evidence from micro data, South Asian Journal for Macroeconomics and Finance, SAGE, Volume 4, Pages 62-90, June 2015.

• Liberalization and service sector performance in India, Empirical Economics Letters, Volume 13, Issue 12, Pages, 1333-1340, December 2014.

• Trade-related subsidies- bridging the North-South divide: An Indian perspective, with Meeta Mehra and Mayank Sinha, Winnipeg, International Institute for Sustainable Development, Canada, 2004.

UNPUBLISHED MANUSCRIPTS

• Political regimes and economic inequality in India: A state-level analysis (with Nimisha Gupta and Amey Sapre).

• Do political considerations at the central and state level boost central transfers and economic growth? (with Abhishek Gaurav and Amey Sapre).

CONFERENCE PAPERS

• Willingness to pay studies- A policy tool (with Joyashree Roy), paper prepared for presentation at the Conference for Market Development on Water and Waste Technologies through Environmental Economics, Paris, 2004 (DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.1.5087.0485)

• Integrating energy and environment into development models, paper presented at Rural Energy Transition Meeting convened by TERI and PESD-Stanford University, New Delhi