Parikshit Ghosh : Research

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Parikshit Ghosh : Research



Working Papers:

  1. “Intra-Household Conflict and Female Labour Force Participation,” (with Naveen Thomas), 2022.
  2. “Fluctuating Fortunes and Persistent Policies: A Dynamic Theory of Political Failure” (with Rohini Somanathan), 2020.
  3. “Information Transmission Among Unequal Individuals within Households,” (with P. P. Krishnapriya), 2017.
  4. “Improving Urban Air Quality in India: Lessons from the Kolkata Clean Air Regullations of 2009” (with Rohini Somanathan), IGC technical report, 2013.
  5. “Making the Punishment Fit the Crime or Taliban Justice? Optimal Penalties Without Commitment,” 2007.
  6. “Efficient Equilibria and Information Aggregation in Common Interest Voting Games,” (with Archishman Chakraborty), 2003.
  7. “Electoral Competition, Moderating Institutions and Political Extremism,” 1999.
  8. “On the Coexistence of Share, Rent and Wage Contracts in a Rural Economy,” No. 58. Boston University, Institute for Economic Development, 1995.

Publications

  1. “The Social Equilibrium of Relational Arrangements” (with Debraj Ray). Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, 2023, 179 (3-4): 579-615.
  2. “Integration without Coordination: Revisiting Globalisation in the Light of the Pandemic” (with Vaibhav Ojha) in Mousumi Dutta, Zakir Husain and Anup Kumar Sinha (eds), The Impact of Covid-19 on India and the Global Order, 2022, Springer.
  3. “SARS Cov-2 Infection Fatality Rates in India: Systematic Review, Meta-Analysis and Model Based Estimation” (with Lauren Zimmerman, Subarna Bhattacharya, Saumik Purkayastha, Ritoban Kundu, Ritwik Bhaduri and Bhramar Mukherjee). Studies in Microeconomics, 2021, 9(2): 137-79.
    “Developing Economic Herd Immunity in the Face of A Pandemic” in Rajib
  4. Bhattacharya, Ananya Ghosh Dastidar and Soumyen Sikdar (eds), The Covid-19 Pandemic, India and the World: Economic and Social Policy Perspectives, 2021, Routledge.
  5. “A Sovereign Fund for India” (with Debraj Ray) in Kaushik Basu et al. (eds) Development, Distribution and Markets, 2021, Oxford University Press.
    “Predictions, Role of interventions and Effects of a Historic national Lockdown in India’s Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic: Data Science Call to Arms.” (with Bhramar Mukherjee et al.). Harvard Data Science Review 2020, no. Suppl 1 (2020).
  6. “Expert Captured Democracies” (with Archishman Chakraborty and Jaideep Ray). American Economic Review, 2020, 110(6): 1713-51.
  7. “Character Endorsements and Electoral Competition” (with Archishman Chakraborty). American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, 2016, 8(2): 277-310.
  8. “Information and Enforcement in Informal Credit Markets” (with Debraj Ray). Economica, 2016, 83(329): 59-90.
  9. “Growth in the Time of UPA: Myths and Reality” (with Maitreesh Ghatak and Ashok Kotwal). Economic & Political Weekly, 2014, 49(16): 34-43.
  10. “The Land Acquisition Bill: A Critique and a Proposal” (with Maitreesh Ghatak). Economic and Political Weekly, 2011, 46(41): 65-72.
  11. “Price Discrimination As Portfolio Diversification.” Economics Bulletin, 2008, 4(5): 1-9.
  12. “Factor Market Imperfections in Poor Agrarian Economies” (with Ashok Kotwal) in International Handbook of Development Economics, 2008: 435-451.
  13. “A Location Based Theory of Franchising” (with Ananish Chaudhuri and Chester Spell). The Journal of Business and Economic Studies, 2001, 7(1): 54-67.
  14. “Credit Rationing in Developing Countries: An Overview of the Theory” (with Dilip Mookherjee and Debraj Ray) in Readings in the Theory of Economic Development, 2000: 383-401.
  15. “Coooperation in Community Interaction without Information Flows” (with Debraj Ray). Review of Economic Studies, 1996, 63(3): 491-519.

Non-technical Articles

  1. “Going Green while Being in the Red,” Ideas for India, May 1, 2024.
  2. “Robert Solow and the Wealth of Nations,” Ideas for India, January 3, 2024.
  3. “Doing Our Bidding: Auctions and the Greater Common Good,” Ideas for India, October 27, 2020.
  4. “It’s Not the economy, Stupid!” medium.com, April 17, 2020.
  5. “We Need A Marshall Plan To Fight Covid-19,” Ideas for India, April 8, 2020.
  6. “Randomized Control Trials: Random Revolutionaries and Counter-Revolutionaries,” Economic Times Blogs, November 1, 2019.
  7. “Demonetisation Hasn’t Sealed BJP’s Fate But Raised Stakes,” The Quint, May 26, 2017.
  8. “Modi’s big Cash Withdrawal: Too Much Strain with Very Little Gain,” The Quint, November 10, 2016.
  9. “Brexit Shows Need to Address Rising Discontent in the Modern Era of Inequality.” The Wire, July 18, 2016.
  10. “Life After Brexit: What Awaits Britain in its Splendid Isolation,” The Quint, June 25, 2016.
  11. “Missing the Target: NDA’s Not-So-Rosy Report Card on Social Policy,” The Quint, May 31, 2016.
  12. “John Nash and Modern Economic Theory,” Ideas for India, June 4, 2015.
  13. “Yes, A Land Acquisition Act Can Address Both Justice and Prosperity,” (with Maitreesh Ghatak), The Wire, June 1, 2015.
  14. “Empower, Don’t Patronise, the Farmer,” (with Maitreesh Ghatak), Indian Express, March 30, 2015.
  15. “Winnowing Fact from Rhetoric: A Look at What Figures Tell of UPA’s Regime,” (with Maitreesh Ghatak and Ashok Kotwal), The Economic Times, April 15, 2014.
  16. “Growth is Not A Victim of UPA, It is the Other Way Round,” (with Maitreesh Ghatak), Hindustan Times, April 3, 2014.
  17. “India’s Illiberal Speech Climate,” Ideas for India, March 5, 2014.
  18. “The Land Acquisition Act is Deeply Flawed,” (with Maitreesh Ghatak), Ideas for India, October 23, 2013.
  19. “Land Acquisition: Is There A Way Out?” (with Maitreesh Ghatak), Ideas for India, July 16, 2012.
  20. “Land On One’s Square Feet,” (with Maitreesh Ghatak), Hindustan Times, September 21, 2011.