academic research

published & forthcoming

  1. inverse selection (w/ brunnermeier & segura-rodriguez), january 2026 [ssrn] [online appendix] accepted at american economic review: insights

  2. india’s governing trilemma and the paradox of economic nationalism, february 2026 [link] indian politics & policy

  3. on dynamic pricing, (w/ krasikov), february 2026 [pdf] american economic journal: microeconomics

  4. uncertain repeated games (w/ krasikov), march 2025 [ssrn] accepted at econometrica

  5. pricing with algorithms (w/ zhuk), may 2025 [ssrn] [online appendix] accepted at american economic review: insights

  6. the role of farm subsidies in changing india's water footprint (w/ chatterjee & zaveri), october 2024 [link] nature: communications

  7. implications of unequal discounting in dynamic contracting (w/ krasikov & mettral), february 2023 [link] american economic journal: microeconomics

  8. a theory of dynamic contracting with financial constraints (w/ krasikov), april 2021 [pdf] [online appendix]journal of economic theory

  9. dynamism with incommensurate development: the distinctive indian model (w/ subramanian), february 2020 [link]journal of economic perspectives (lead article)

  10. optimal dynamic contracting: the first-order approach and beyond (w/ battaglini), november 2019 [link] [supplementary appendix] [older version]theoretical economics

  11. an economic partnership for twenty first-century asia (w/ kapur), 2016 [pdf] chapter, oxford university press

  12. the coal saga: the imminent and the feasible (w/ bhandari), 2013 [pdf] economic and political weekly

under revision at journals

  1. rationalizing dynamic choices (w/ de oliveira), march 2026 [ssrn]

  2. efficiency with(out) intermediation in repeated bilateral trade, october 2024 [ssrn]

submitted

  1. treasury auctions during a crisis (w/ gupta), september 2024 [ssrn]

working papers & works in progress

  1. who stands behind the answer? ai and the self-undermining logic of cheap cognition, march 2026 [ssrn] [pdf]

  2. the verification hill, february 2026 [ssrn]

  3. a spatial dive into india’s growth story (w/ chatterjee & rai), march 2026 [ssrn]

  4. hard information design (w/ dasgupta & krasikov), july 2022 [ssrn]

  5. relevant deviations in rationalizing dynamic choices (w/ de oliveira), april 2025 [ssrn]

  6. dynamic information design via deviation rules (w/ de oliveira), april 2025 [ssrn]

  7. behavioral epidemiology: an economic model to evaluate optimal policy in the midst of a pandemic (w/ chakrabarti & krasikov), february 2022 [arXiv] [ssrn]

  8. uncertain repeated games with fixed discounting (w/ krasikov), [draft coming soon]

  9. on dynamic contracts without transfers (w/ krasikov & li), [in progress]

  10. on soft and hard information, (w/ krasikov), [in progress]

  11. job ladder and optimal taxation (w/ golosov & krasikov), [in progress]

  12. perverse consequences of conditional incentives where state capacity is low (w/ spears), nov 2013 [shirking] [pdf]