• Select Publications (Full list of published Articles may be accessed from here)

Applied Theory

• “Cross-ownership in duopoly: Are there any incentives to divest?” (with E. Petrakis), Economic Theory, (Forthcoming), 2025. [Springer], accessed from here 
• “Corruption versus Efficiency in Water Allocation under Uncertainty: Is There a Trade-off?” (with D. R. Pati and S. Shrivastav), Regional Studies, 58(1), pp. 105-119, 2024. [Taylor & Francis], accessed from here 
• “Heterogeneity in Farmers’ Social Preferences and the Design of Green Payment Schemes” (with P. Banerjee, A. Woosink, and J. Asher), Environmental and Resource Economics, 78(2), pp. 201-226, 2021. [Springer], accessed from here 
• “Tacit Collusion and Market Concentration under Network Effects” (with M. Scrimitore), Economics Letters, Vol. 145 (August), pp. 266-269, 2016. [Elsevier],accessed from here
• “Endogenizing Governments’ Objectives in Tax Competition” (with A. Sharma) Regional Science & Urban Economics, Vol. 43, No. 4, pp. 570-578, 2013. [Elsevier], accessed from here

Network Externalities

• “Network Externalities and Process R&D: A Cournot-Bertrand Comparison” (with M. Naskar), Mathematical Social Sciences, Vol. 103 (January), 2020. [Elsevier], accessed from here
• “Cournot vs. Bertrand under relative performance delegation: Implications of positive and negative network externalities” Mathematical Social Sciences, Vol. 75 (May), pp. 94-101, 2015. [Elsevier], accessed from here
• “Externalities, Entry Bias, and Optimal Subsidy Policy for Cleaner Environment” (with M. Scrimitore and R. Song), Journal of Public Economic Theory, 25(1), pp. 90-122, 2023. [Wiley], accessed from here
• “Mixed Duopoly and Environment” (with B. Saha) Journal of Public Economic Theory, Vol. 16, No. 1, pp. 96-118, 2014. [Wiley-Blackwell], accessed from here
• “Probabilistic Patents, Alternative Damage Rules and Optimal Tariffs” (with A. Dey and A. K. Kaushik), Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, Vol. 176, No. 2, pp. 276-311, 2020. [Mohr Siebeck], accessed from here

Empirical

• “Financial Inclusion in India: An Axiomatic Approach” (with S. R. Chakravarty) Journal of Policy Modeling, Vol. 35, No. 5, pp. 813-837, 2013. [Elsevier],accessed from here
• “Why Tax Effort Falls Short of Tax Capacity in Indian States: A Stochastic Frontier Approach” (with S. Garg and A. Goyal), Public Finance Review, Vol. 45, No. 2, pp. 232-259, 2017. [Sage], accessed from here
• “Usage of Formal Financial Services in India: Demand Barriers or Supply Constraints?” (with A. Kumar and R. Pal), Economic Modelling, Vol. 80 (August), 2019, pp. 244-259, 2019. [Elsevier], accessed from here
• “Estimating Workers’ Bargaining Power and Firms’ Markup in India: Implications of Reforms and Labour Regulations” (with U. Rathore), Journal of Policy Modeling, Vol. 38, No. 6, pp. 1118-1135, 2016 . [Elsevier], accessed from here
• “Can the Information Technology Revolution Explain the Incidence of Co-movement of Skill Premium and Stock Prices?” (with K. Gangopadhyay and A. Nishimura), Economic Modelling, Vol. 53 (February), pp. 107-120 , 2016. [Elsevier], accessed from here

Platform Competition

• Will a Matchmaker Invite Her Potential Rival In?, 2017, Journal of Economics and Management Strategy (with V. Ramani), accessed from here 

Resource and Environment

• “Corruption versus Efficiency in Water Allocation under Uncertainty: Is There a Trade-off ?” , 2023, Regional Studies (with D. R. Pati and S. Shrivastav), accessed from here 
• “Externalities, Entry Bias, and Optimal Subsidy Policy for Cleaner Environment” , 2023, Journal of Public Economic Theory (with M. Scrimitore and R. Song), accessed from here 
• “Green Firm, Brown Environment”, 2022, Manchester School (with P. Banerjee, P. Thakkar and A. M. T. Hussain), accessed from here 
• Heterogeneity in Farmers’ Social Preferences and the Design of Green Payment Schemes, 2021, Environmental and Resource Economics (with P. Banerjee, A. Woosink, and J. Asher), accessed from here 
• Pollution Tax, Partial Privatization and Environment, 2015, Resource and Energy Economics (with B. Saha), accessed from here 
• Mixed Duopoly and Environment, 2014, Journal of Public Economic Theory (with B. Saha), accessed from here 
• Delegation and Emission Tax in a Differentiated Oligopoly, 2012, Manchester School, accessed from here
• Environmental Standards as Strategic Outcomes: A Simple Model, 2010, Resource and Energy Economics (with R. N. Bhattacharya), accessed from here 

International Tax Competition

• Nash Equilibrium in Tax and Public Investment Competition, 2019, International Review of Economics and Finance (with A. Sharma), accessed from here 
• Preferences over Public Good, Political Delegation, and Leadership in Tax Competition, 2019, Public Finance Review (with A. Sharma), accessed from here 
• Competition for Foreign Capital under Asymmetric Revenue-Orientation, 2016, Indian Economic Review (with A. Sharma), accessed from here 
• Endogenizing Governments’ Objectives in Tax Competition, 2013, Regional Science and Urban Economics (with A. Sharma), accessed from here 

Privatization

• Equilibrium Coexistence of Public and Private Firms and the Plausibility of Price Competition, 2020, Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics (with M. Mitra, A. Paul and P. M. Sharada), accessed from here 
• Mixed Duopoly, Cross-ownership and Partial Privatization, 2012, Journal of Economics (with R. Jain), accessed from here 

R&D, Innovation and Technology Adoption

• Can the Information Technology Revolution Explain the Incidence of Co-movement of Skill Premium and Stock Prices?, 2016, Economic Modelling (with K. Gangopadhyay and A. Nishimura), accessed from here 

• Competition, Strategic Delegation and Delay in Technology Adoption, 2016, Economics of Innovation and New Technology (with A. Mahathi and V. Ramani), accessed from here 
• Cooperative Managerial Delegation, R&D, and Collusion, 2010, Bulletin of Economic Research, accessed from here 
• Technology Adoption in a Differentiated Duopoly: Cournot versus Bertrand, 2010, Research in Economics,  accessed from here

International Trade Policy

• Probabilistic Patents, Alternative Damage Rules and Optimal Tariffs, 2020, Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics (with A. Dey and A. K. Kaushik), accessed from here 
• Welfare Ranking of Alternative Export Taxes Revisited, 2017, Economics Bulletin (with A. Ghosh), accessed from here 

Union-Firm Bargaining in Oligopoly

• Entry Threats and Inefficiency in Efficient Bargaining, 2016, Scottish Journal of Political Economy (with B. Saha), accessed from here 
• Union-Oligopoly Bargaining and Entry Deterrence: A Reassessment of Limit Pricing, 2008, Journal of Economics (with B. Saha), accessed from here 
• Wage Commitment, Signalling and Entry Deterrence or Accommodation, 2006, LABOUR: Review of Labour Economics and Industrial Relations (with B. Saha) accessed from here
• Union-Firm Bargaining Under Alternative Pay Schemes: Does Performance Related Pay Fare Better?, 2006, Indian Journal of Labour Economics, accessed from here 

Electoral Competition: Theory

• “A Vote-Share Concentration-Based Axiomatic Characterisation of the Probability-Ratio Index of Electoral Competition”, 2022, Journal of Income Distribution (Special Issue in honour of Nanak Kakwani),  accessed from here 
• On the Probability Ratio Index as a Measure of Electoral Competition, 2020, Palgrave Communications (with S. R. Chakravarty, M. Mitra and S. Mutuswami), accessed from here  

Competition Policy: Theory

• Signaling through Public Antitrust Enforcement: An Extension, 2019, Economics Bulletin (with M. Ganguly),  accessed from here 

Incentives in Team: Empirics

• The Impact of Group Incentives on Performance of Small Firms: Hausman-Taylor Estimates, 2010, Managerial and Decision Economics (with K. Dixit), accessed from here 

Financial Inclusion: India

• Usage of Formal Financial Services in India: Demand Barriers or Supply Constraints?, 2019, Economic Modelling (with A. Kumar and R. Pal), accessed from here 
• Financial Inclusion in India: An Axiomatic Approach, Journal of Policy Modeling (with S. R. Chakravarty) accessed from here 
• Outreach of Banking Services across Indian States: 1981-2007 – Converging or Diverging?, 2011, Chapter 12 in India Development Report 2011 (with R. R. Vaidya), accessed from here 

Public Finance and Politics: India

• Why Tax Effort Falls Short of Tax Capacity in Indian States: A Stochastic Frontier Approach, 2017, Public Finance Review (with S. Garg and A. Goyal), accessed from here 
• Electoral Outcome and Provision of Public Goods: A Case Study of India, 2016, Journal of Comparative Asian Development (with A. K. Kaushik), accessed from here 
• How Representative Has the Lok Sabha Been?, 2012, Economic and Political Weekly (with A. K. Kaushik), accessed from here 
• A Scrutiny of the MP-LADS in India: Who Is It For?, 2010, Economic and Political Weekly (with A. Das), accessed from here 

Industry – Competition and Growth: India

• Dynamics of Firm's Competitive Behavior in Indian Manufacturing Industries: 1971-2010, 2015, Chapter 7 in India Development Report 2015, accessed from here 
• The Relative Impacts of Banking, Infrastructure and Labour on Industrial Growth: Evidence from Indian States, 2011, Macroeconomics and Finance in Emerging Market Economies, accessed from here

Labour Market: India

• Estimating Workers' Bargaining Power and Firms' Markup in India: Implications of Reforms and Labour Regulations, 2016, Journal of Policy Modeling (with U. Rathore), accessed from here 
• Labour Market: Balancing Freedom and Protection, 2014, Chapter 30 in Oxford Handbook of the Indian Economy in the 21st Century: Understanding the Inherent Dynamism (wth B. Saha), accessed from here 
• Impact of Communist Parties on the Individual Decision to Join a Trade Union: Evidence from India, 2010, Developing Economies, accessed from here

Covid-19 Pandemic: Vaccination and other issues

• “On Willingness to Pay for Covid-19 Vaccines: A Case Study from India”, 2021, Human Vaccines & Immunotherapeutics (with U. Das and U. Rathore), accessed from here 
• Global Shocks and International Policy Coordination”, 2022, Global Policy (with A. Goyal), accessed from here 
• “Evidence of Low Willingness to Pay for COVID-19 Vaccines: A Case for Further Subsidisation”, 2021, Economic and Political Weekly (with U. Das and U. Rathore), accessed from here