academic research

published & forthcoming

1. the role of farm subsidies in changing india's water footprint (w/ chatterjee & zaveri), october 2024 [link] nature: communications
2. on dynamic pricing, (w/ krasikov), november 2022 [ssrn] accepted at american economic journal: microeconomics
3. implications of unequal discounting in dynamic contracting (w/ krasikov & mettral), february 2023 [link] american economic journal: microeconomics
4. a theory of dynamic contracting with financial constraints (w/ krasikov), april 2021 [pdf] [online appendix] journal of economic theory
5. dynamism with incommensurate development: the distinctive indian model (w/ subramanian), february 2020 [link] journal of economic perspectives (lead article)
6. optimal dynamic contracting: the first-order approach and beyond (w/ battaglini), november 2019 [link] [supplementary appendix] [older version] theoretical economics
7. an economic partnership for twenty first-century asia (w/ kapur), 2016 [pdf] chapter, oxford university press.
8. the coal saga: the imminent and the feasible (w/ bhandari), 2013 [pdf] economic and political weekly

under revision at journals

9. uncertain repeated games (w/ krasikov), september 2023 [ssrn]
10. rationalizing dynamic choices (w/ de oliveira), september 2023 [ssrn]
11. pricing with algorithms (w/ zhuk), july 2024 [ssrn] [online appendix]

submitted

12. efficiency with(out) intermediation in repeated bilateral trade, october 2024 [ssrn]
13. treasury auctions during a crisis (w/ gupta), september 2024 [ssrn]
14. inverse selection (w/ brunnermeier & segura-rodriguez), june 2024 [ssrn]

working papers & works in progress

15. algorithmic pricing ⇒ supracompetitive pricing? (w/ zhuk), july 2024 [preliminary]
16. hard information design (w/ dasgupta & krasikov), july 2022 [ssrn]
17. a spatial dive into india’s growth story (w/ chatterjee & rai), september 2023 [pdf]
18. behavioral epidemiology: an economic model to evaluate optimal policy in the midst of a pandemic (w/ chakrabarti & krasikov), february 2022 [arXiv] [ssrn]
19. uncertain repeated games with fixed discounting (w/ krasikov), [draft coming soon]
20. on dynamic contracts without transfers (w/ krasikov & li), [in progress]
21. dynamic information design via deviation rules (w/ de oliveira), [in progress]
22. job ladder and optimal taxation (w/ golosov & krasikov), [in progress]
23. perverse consequences of conditional incentives where state capacity is low (w/ spears), nov 2013 [shirking] [pdf]