Research
 
 

  1. Bullet“Fertility Choice under Child Mortality and Social Norms” with Joydeep Bhattacharya, forthcoming, Economic Letters, 2011.

  2. Bullet"The Quality of Public Investment" with Era Dabla-Norris, The B.E. Journal of Macroeconomics: Vol. 11: Iss. 1 (Contributions), Article 27, 2011.

  3. Bullet"Diseases, Infection Dynamics and Development” with Chris Papageorgiou (IMF) and Fidel Perez-Sebastian (Alicante), Journal of Monetary Economics, 2010. (Supplementary Material)

  4. Bullet"The Development and Structure of Financial Systems", (with Tridip Ray), Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 2007.

  5. Bullet"Costly Intermediation and the Poverty of Nations", (with Amartya Lahiri), International Economic Review, 2007.

  6. Bullet"Rent Seeking", (with Era Dabla-Norris), IMF Staff Papers, 2006.

  7. Bullet"Mortality, Human Capital and Persistent Inequality", (with Mausumi Das), Journal of Economic Growth, 2006.

  8. Bullet"Bank-based versus Market-based Financial Systems: A Growth-theoretic Analysis", (with Tridip Ray), Journal of Monetary Economics, 2006.

  9. Bullet"Mortality, Fertility and Child Labor" (with Mausumi Das), Economics Letters, 2005.

  10. Bullet"What do Information Frictions do?" (with Joydeep Bhattacharya), Economic Theory, 2005.

  11. Bullet"Endogenous Lifetime and Economic Growth", Journal of Economic Theory, 2004.

  12. Bullet"Agency Costs in Dynamic Economic Models", (with Costas Azariadis), Economic Journal, 1999.

  13. Bullet"Asset Price Volatility in a Non-convex General Equilibrium Model", (with Costas Azariadis), Economic Theory, 1998.

 

Working Papers

Published Papers

  1. Bullet“Twin Transitions” with Ania Aksan, 2011

  2. Bullet“Childhood Disease and the Precautionary Demand for Children” with Ania Aksan, 2010.

  3. Bullet"Battling Infection, Fighting Stagnation” with Chris Papageorgiou and Fidel Perez-Sebastian, 2010.

  4. Bullet"Death and Capital: Physical and Human Capital Investment under Missing Annuity Markets", with Mausumi Das, 2009.

  5. Bullet"Entrepreneurship, Cultural Transmission and Economic Development” with Etienne Yehoue, 2009.


Ongoing Projects

  1. Bullet“Contraception and the Fertility Transition” with Joydeep Bhattacharya.

  2. Bullet“The Precautionary Demand for Children Redux” with Ania Aksan.

  3. Bullet“Population Aging and Technological Change in a Model of Economic Growth”, with Jayanta Sarkar.

  4. Bullet“Mortality Decline, Bequests and the Transition from Physical to Human Capital”, with Fidel Pérez-Sebastián.

  5. Bullet“Health Transitions in a Growth Model”