Economist & Researcher

NirvanaMitra

Assistant Professor of Economics & Public Policy
Indian School of Business, Hyderabad

My research spans sovereign debt and defaults, consumer finance, and the macroeconomic consequences of institutional design. I combine quantitative theory with empirical methods to understand how governments and households borrow, default, and recover.

Nirvana Mitra
● Live Recent News & Updates
2025

New working paper: IFI Lending, Conditionality, and Institutional Strength (with M. Azzimonti)

Scholarship

Research & Publications

Academic Publications
Journal of International Money and Finance, 2023
with M. Azzimonti
NBER Working Paper No. w29667
Working Papers
Revise & Resubmit — The Review of Economic Studies
NBER Working Paper No. w31943  ·  Online Appendix
Work in Progress
In Progress
Political Economy of Fiscal Dominance
In Progress
Political Economy of Fiscal Rules
with A. Sagwal
Policy & Other Writings
Ideas for India — April 2025

Education

Teaching & Courses

Indian School of Business
01

PGP-YL

Fundamentals of Economics

FDEC

02

PGP-PRO

Global Economics

GLEC

Shiv Nadar University
03

Undergraduate

Principles of Macroeconomics

ECO 102

04

Graduate

Macroeconomics II

ECO 512

05

Graduate — 1st Half

Open-Economy Macroeconomics & International Trade

ECO 632

06

Graduate — 2nd Half

Macroeconomics I

ECO 502

07

Graduate — 2nd Half

Computational Economics

ECO 518

Stony Brook University
08

Instructor

Intermediate Macroeconomics

ECO 305 · Summer 2017–19, Fall 2018–19, Spring 2020

09

Teaching Assistant

Intermediate Macroeconomics

ECO 305 · Spring 2017–18, Fall 2017

10

Teaching Assistant

Mathematical Statistics

ECO 320 · Spring 2019

11

Teaching Assistant

Principles of Economics

ECO 108 · Fall 2015–16, Spring 2016

Get in touch

Contact & Location

Emailnirvana_mitra@isb.edu
nirvana.mitra@gmail.com
OfficeAC8 8119, Main Building
Indian School of Business

Institution

Indian School
of Business

Gachibowli, Hyderabad
Telangana 500 032
India

Previously: Research Director, CAFRAL
Assistant Professor, Shiv Nadar University