Research

Research Interests: Macroeconomics, International Finance, Political Economy, Misallocation and Productivity

Working papers

1.  Political Constraints and Sovereign Default (with M. Azzimonti) -- R&R at Journal of International Money and Finance

•  NBER Working Paper Number: w29667

•  Previous version: Political Constraints and Sovereign Default Premia  

•  Presented at: SED Annual Meetings, Cartagena (2023), Midwest Macro Meetings, Clemson University (2023), ASSA Meetings (2023), Australasian Meeting of the Econometric Society (2022), North America Summer Meeting of The Econometric Society (2022) Miami, The Kuznets Mini-Conference (2022) Yale U. (M. Azzimonti), Philadelphia Fed (2022) (M. Azzimonti), CAFRAL-- Reserve Bank of India (2022), Shiv Nadar U. (2020), IIT Kanpur (2020), Ahmedabad U. (2020), MWM (2018) Vanderbilt U., Stony Brook U. (2020)

2. Banking Reforms, Access to Credit and Misallocation (with P. Chakraborty) 

•  Presented at: Stony Brook U. (2020)

Work in progress

1. Sovereign Debt Crises, Tax Smoothing, and Political Constraints (with M. Azzimonti) 

2. The Political Economy of Fiscal Dominance (with A. Chatterjee)

3. Political Economy of Fiscal Rules (with A. Sagwal)

4. Climate Policy Inequality and Innovation

5. The Predictive Power of Capacity to Repay (CtR) Indicators in IMF Programs (with Rina Bhattacharya and Edda Zoli)  Slides