Economic Development and Growth, Applied Microeconomics, Financial Development.

Publications:

• Book:
   
  • New and Enduring Themes in Development Economics, (co-edited with Bhaskar Dutta and E. Somanathan), World Scientific: Singapore, 2009.
     
• Journal Articles:
   
  • "Integrating Mental Health in Welfare Evaluation: An Empirical Application," (with Sanghamitra Das and Abhiroop Mukhopadhyay), The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy, 9 (1), (Topics), Article 41, 2009.
     
  • "The Development and Structure of Financial Systems," (with Shankha Chakraborty), Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 31(9), 2920-2956, 2007.
     
  • "Bank-based versus Market-based Financial Systems: A Growth-theoretic Analysis," (with Shankha Chakraborty), Journal of Monetary Economics, 53(2), 329-350, 2006.
     
  • "Sharecropping, Land Exploitation and Land Improving Investments," Japanese Economic Review, 56(2), 127-143, 2005.
     
  • "Uncertainty, Arbitrage and Intra-Industry Trade," (with Sudipto Dasgupta and Kit Pong Wong), Canadian Journal of Economics, 35(4), 757-785, 2002.
     
  • "Limited Liability, Contractual Choice, and the Tenancy Ladder," (with Nirvikar Singh), Journal of Development Economics, 66(1), 289-303, 2001.
     
  • "Share Tenancy as Strategic Delegation," Journal of Development Economics, 58(1), 45-60, 1999.
     
  • "The Babu and the Boxwallah: Managerial Incentives and Government Intervention in a Developing Economy," (with Kaushik Basu and Arghya Ghosh), Review of Development Economics, 1(1), 71-80, 1997.
     
• Chapters in Books:
   
  • "Economic Cost of HIV and AIDS in India," (with Sanghamitra Das and Abhiroop Mukhopadhyay), in Markus Haacker and Mariam Claeson (eds.), HIV and AIDS in South Asia: An Economic Development Risk, chapter 4, 123-154, The World Bank, Washington, DC, 2009.

• "Negative Reality of the HIV Positives: Evaluating Welfare Loss in a Low Prevalence Country," (with Sanghamitra Das and Abhiroop Mukhopadhyay), Discussion Paper 08-02, Indian Statistical Institute, Delhi.
   
• "Income Distribution and Product Quality," (with Namrata Gulati). (work in progress)
   
• "Uncertainty, Arbitrage and Industry Location," (with Sudipto Dasgupta). (work in progress)
   
• "A Procurement Auction Model under Supplier Uncertainty," (with Haresh Gurnani).