My research is eclectic, cutting across a number of areas of economics, finance and international business. As such, I am an applied economist whose research questions are largely anchored in microeconomic theory. In particular, the economics of agency conflicts and strategic interaction among economic agents is the basis for a lot (though not all) of my research questions.

In the recent past, issues that I have examined include the following:

v      Impact of ownership on outward FDI of emerging market firms

v Impact of ownership concentration on M&A outcomes

v Determinants of economic cooperation related investment of the Chinese state and its synergy with outward FDI

v      Impact of bank ownership on transmission of monetary policy

v Impact of biofuel subsidy on pollution

My research is largely empirical in nature, and India is the context of a significant proportion of this research. It is my native country, large, developing, and one of the fastest growing in the world. Further, since 1991, it has experienced very significant structural changes and hence it is a fertile ground for natural experiments encompassing a variety of policy issues that impact behaviour and performance of economic agents. Finally, it allows me to leverage the knowledge of the country's economy and its financial-corporate sectors that I had acquired during the three and a half years that I spent there as an economist.

Increasingly, however, I am developing an interest in a comparison of BRICS countries. A recently published paper compares the impact of economic reforms on firm performance in China and Russia. Another paper that has been recently accepted for publication compares the trends and determinants of earnings growth among Indian and Chinese wage earners since the late eighties. Such comparative studies promise to be a significant part of my research portfolio in the medium run.