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.
Enough said! The details are for you to find out in this web site. If
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