I am a macroeconomist broadly interested in the intersection between macro-development, political economy, and public finance. I have recently been working on Indian economic growth, emerging market DSGE models (with specific reference to India), and endogenous growth models with endogenous investment specific technological change.

• Editor, The Oxford Handbook of the Indian Economy. Under Contract with Oxford University Press, New York. To Appear, January 2012.
• Link on OUP.com

• [November 2011] Sectoral Infrastructure Investment in an Unbalanced Growing Economy: The Case Of India. With Gerhard Glomm (Indiana) and Jialu Liu (Allegheny College)
• [Preliminary Version].

• [October 2011] [Distortionary Taxes and Public Investment in a Model of Endogenous Investment Specific Technological Change.] With Pawan Gopalakrishnan (ISI Delhi) and Monisankar Bishnu (ISI Delhi)
• [Has India Emerged? Business Cycle Stylized Facts from a Transitioning Economy]. NIPFP Working Paper, 11/88. With Ila Patnaik (NIPFP) and Radhika Pandey (NIPFP).
• [Latest Version], October 2011.

• [September 2011] [Correlates of statewise participation in the great Indian growth turnaround: some preliminary robustness results.] With Stephen Wright (Birkbeck College). Birkbeck College Discussion Paper 1104.
• [The "V Factor": Distribution, Timing, and Correlates of the Great Indian Growth Turnaround]. With Stephen Wright (Birkbeck College). In press, Journal of Development Economics.
• [India's Growth Turnaround], In The Concise Oxford Companion to Economics in India, Eds. Kaushik Basu and Annemie Maertens, Oxford University Press, New Delhi. With Stephen Wright and Tatiana Fic. April 2010, pages 33-40.
• Entry for "The Time Inconsistency Problem." In The Princeton Encyclopedia of the World Economy, Eds. Ramkishen Rajan and Kenneth Reinert, Princeton University Press. February 2009, pages 1091-1093.
• [Calibrating RBC Models: A Simple Example Illustrating the Method of Successive Aproximations]. Indian Growth and Development Review, Volume 1, Issue 1, May 2008, pages 119-124.
• [Understanding Divergence in India: A Political Economy Approach]. Journal of Economic Policy Reform, Volume 11, Issue 1, March 2008, pages 1-9.
• [Voting, Wealth Heterogeneity, and Endogenous Labor Supply]. FinanzArchiv/Public Finance Analysis, Volume 63, Issue 4, December 2007, pages 477-497.
• [Education, Growth, and Redistribution in the Presence of Capital Flight]. With Debajyoti Chakrabarty and Areendam Chanda, Topics in Macroeconomics (The B.E. Journals in Macroeconomics), Volume 6, Issue 2 (Article 14), November 2006, pages 1-41.
• The Welfare State, Thresholds, and Economic Growth. With Tatiana Fic, Economic Modeling, Volume 22, Issue 3, May 2005, pages 571-598.
• Endogenous Distribution and Equilibrium Growth: A Note. Bulletin of Economic Research, Volume 57, Issue 2, April 2005, pages 171-183.
• [Endogenous Distribution, Politics, and the Growth Equity Tradeoff]. With Satya P. Das, Contributions to Macroeconomics (The B.E. Journals in Macroeconomics) , Volume 4, Issue 1 (Article 6), July 2004, pages 1-30.
• Reprinted in: Studies in Macroeconomics and Welfare, 2005, Eds. B.B. Bhattacharya and Arup Mitra, Academic Foundation Press Press, p. 223-250.

• [Optimal Fiscal Policy in an Economy Facing Socio-Political Instability]. With Quan Vu Le and Paul J. Zak, Review of Development Economics, Volume 7, Issue 4, November 2003, pages 583-595.
• The Politics of Endogenous Growth. Topics in Macroeconomics (The B.E. Journals in Macroeconomics), Volume 3, Issue 1 (Article 9), August 2003, pages 1-20.
• [The Growth of Government and the Politics of Fiscal Policy]. With Paul J. Zak, Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, Volume 13, Issue 4, December 2002, pages 435-455.
• Lobbying, The Composition of Government Expenditures, and the Politics of Fiscal Policy. Australian Economic Papers, Volume 40, Issue 2, June 2001, pages 133-145.

• Comment on `A Discussion on Continuous Time Growth Models' by Amitava Bose. Contemporary Ideas and Issues in Social Sciences, Vol. 3, Issue 3, December 2007, pages 1-7.
• Book Review for [Globalization and Its Enemies]. By Daniel Cohen, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA. In American Journal of Agricultural Economics, Volume 89, Issue 4, November 2007, pages 1117 - 1119.
• Book Review for [Global Capital Markets: Integration, Crisis, and Growth]. By Maurice Obstfeld and Alan Taylor, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. In American Journal of Agricultural Economics, Volume 88, Issue 1, February 2006, pages 272 - 274.

• Education in India. With Gerhard Glomm (Indiana) and John T Stone III (Indiana).
• India's Economic Growth Outlook: Sustainability and Reforms (With Peter Robertson, UWA)