Rahul is an applied micro-economist and his research interests lie in International Trade, Empirical Industrial Organization, and Finance. His research examines the firm level adjustments to Non-Tariff Measures and Chinese import competition in the post-liberalisation period in India. His current projects study the effectiveness of various policies in encouraging firm level innovation in India. He holds a PhD in Economics from IIM Bangalore and B-Tech in Mining Engineering from IIT-BHU. 

Working Papers

1. Import Competition, Formalization, and the Role of Contract Labor, (with Pavel Chakraborty and Vidhya Soundararajan), Revise and Resubmit at The World Bank Economic Review
2. Chinese Import Competition and Prices: Evidence from India, (with Michael Henry and Pavel Chakraborty), Revise and Resubmit at Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics  
3. Debt Contract Enforcement and Product Innovation: Evidence from a Legal Reform in India, (with Tanya Jain and Chetan Subramanian), Submitted
4. R&D Tax Credits and Price Competition: Evidence from India, (with Tanya Jain)

"Technical Regulations, Intermediate Inputs, and Performance of Firms: Evidence from India", (joint with Rupa Chanda), Journal of International Economics: Volume 128 (January 2021) [Published Version]

EPP500: Microeconomics (MBA)

EPP510: Macroeconomics (MBA)

EPP100: Microeconomics (Undergraduate)

EPP330: International Economics (Undergraduate)

Epp530: International Economics (Graduate)

ECO200: Managerial Economics (Undergraduate)

ECO500: Economics for Managers (MBA)