About Us

PhD, Centre for International Trade and Development (CITD), School of International Studies (SIS), Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi-IN

M.Phil (in International Trade and Development), CITD, SIS, JNU, New Delhi-IN

M.A. Economics (with specialisation in World Economy), CITD, SIS, JNU, New Delhi-IN

B.A. (Hons.) Economics, Hansraj College, University of Delhi, Delhi-IN

Research: International Trade Theory And Policy, Foreign Direct Investment

Teaching: Management Programmes (Business Economics, Macroeconomics, International Economics, Trade Analytics, India, Global Trdae & WTO) | Masters In Economics (International Trade Theory, International Macroeconomics, Basic Econometrics, Advanced Topic In Trade Theory)

 Refereed Journal Publications and Book Chapter

“Cost-Reducing Technologies and Labor Supply in a Model where Consumption is Time-Constrained: Some New Results” – Published in The B.E. Journal of Theoretical Economics, 2023 (with Prof. Manoj Pant).

“Quantification of Services Trade Restrictions – Some New Results” – Published in Economic and Political Weekly, 57(10), Issue: March 5th, 2022 (with Prof. Manoj Pant)

“Unskilled Immigration, Technical Progress, and Wages – Role of the Household Sector” – Published in Review of International Economics, Issue: 2020 (with Prof. Sugata Marjit, Prof. Manoj Pant)

“Trade, Investment, and the Multilateral Trading System” – Chapter in R. Kathuria and P. Kukreja’s Edited Book ‘20 Years of G20’, Issue: 2019 (with Prof. Manoj Pant)

“Foreign Direct Investment, Welfare and Wage Inequality in a small open economy: Theory and Empirics” – Published in Indian Economic Review, Issue: 2018 (with Prof. Manoj Pant)

“Dynamics of Food Inflation: Assessing the role of intermediaries” – Published in Global Business Review 19.5, Issue: 2018 (with Kanika Pathania)

Working Papers

“Ease of Doing Business and Firm Productivity - Evidence from Indian Industries and States” – Work in progress, 2023 (with Neha Jain and Geeta Tiwari)

“Fostering Participation In International Trade Through Digitalisation: A Case of India's Unorganised Sector MSMEs” - SSRN Working Paper, abstract = 4206321, 2022 (with Neha Jain and Kriti Sharma)

“E-Commerce Majors, and the Indian Retail and Manufacturing Industry” – Work in progress, 2022 (with Ashley Jose, Nibha Bharti, and Kanika Pathania)

“Digitalization and Exports: A case of Indian Manufacturing MSMEs” – SSRN Working Paper, abstract = 4089639, 2022 (with Kriti Sharma, Neha Jain, Ashley Bose) 

“Labour, Trade, and Wage Inequality – Some New Results” – IIFT Working Paper Series, W.P. No. EC-20-43, 2020 (with Prof. Manoj Pant)

“The Role of services in shaping Industrial output: The case for Indian Manufacturing industries” – Work in progress (with Stuti Bawa, SK Md Azharuddin, and Sanghita Mondal)

Op-Ed

“Indian, Chinese firms teaming up will pay-off” – Published in The Hindu Businessline, July 29, 2024 (with Nikhil Rahangdale and Dr. Aishwarya Harichandan)

“India's Emergence is vital for the global economy to grow” – Published in Mint, February 8th, 2023 (with Prof. Manoj Pant)

“Can Digitization be a potential driver for improving MSMEs' export performance” – Published in Indian Retailer, November 24th, 2022 (with Neha Jain and Kriti Sharma)

“Can E-Commerce and MSMEs coexist? It's complicated” – Published in Mint, November 18th, 2022 (with Prof. Manoj Pant and Kanika Pathania)

Completed Research Projects

“E-Commerce Majors, SSI Retailers, and the Indian Economy: Theory and Empirics” – IIFT's Research Report (with Prof. Manoj Pant, Ashley Jose, Nibha Bharti, and Kanika Pathania), 2022

“Quantification of Services Trade Restrictions – Some New Evidence” – Report submitted to the Department of Commerce, Ministry of Commerce and Industry, Government of India, Udyog Bhawan, New Delhi-IN (with Prof. Manoj Pant, Srinka Bose, Stuti Bawa), 2020

“Pakistan Services Trade Performance: A Competitiveness Assessment” – World Bank Report (with Sebastian Saez, Erik Van der Marel), 2019

“India Services Competitiveness Performance: An assessment” – World Bank Reports (3) (with Sebastian Saez, Ruchita Manghnani, Erik Van der Marel), 2019

“Foreign Direct Investment and Trade: An Analysis of the relationship” – Report submitted to the Ministry of Commerce and Industry, Government of India, Udyog Bhawan, New Delhi-IN (with Prof. Manoj Pant, Prof. Sheeba Kapil and Dr. Sanghita Mondal), 2018

“Jordan: Services Trade Performance and Competitiveness Diagnostics” – World Bank Report (with Sebastian Saez, Ruchita Manghnani, Erik Van der Marel), 2018

“Bihar Competitiveness Diagnostics” – World Bank (with Ruchita Manghnani), 2017

“Services Performance and the Chinese Economy” – World Bank Report (with Sebastian Saez, Ruchita Manghnani, Erik Van der Marel), 2017

“Foreign Investment and Investment Regimes – Country experiences: China” – Report submitted to the Centre for WTO Studies, Indian Institute of Foreign Trade, New Delhi, IN (with Prof. Manoj Pant), 2016

“Assessing the impact of exports under EPCG scheme on India’s exports and its capital goods sector – An Empirical Study” – Report submitted to the Centre for WTO Studies, Indian Institute of Foreign Trade, New Delhi, IN (with Prof. Manoj Pant and Kanika Pathania), 2015

“India’s Free Trade Agreements: A Quantitative Study” – Report submitted to the Centre for WTO Studies, Indian Institute of Foreign Trade, New Delhi, IN (with Prof. Manoj Pant, Kanika Pathania and Bishal Karki), 2015

Member - The Econometric Society, The Royal Economics Society, Association for Environment and Development Research

Reviewer - Indian Economic Review