I am an Assistant Professor of Economics at Florida State University. My research interests lie at the intersection of Development Economics, Macroeconomics, and International Trade. Currently, my work focuses on quantifying the impact of government regulations on firms in developing countries, using both reduced-form and structural methods.
I received my Ph.D. in Economics from the Pennsylvania State University in July 2023.
For more details, please see my CV or contact me at kp23ba@fsu.edu.
Research
Working Papers
Small By Choice: Reassessing the Costs of Size-Based Regulations
No Country for Dying Firms: Evidence from India (joint with S. Chatterjee, K. Krishna, and Y. Zhao)
Media Coverage: VoxDev, VoxEU, Ideas for India, CATO Institute Research Blog, Marginal Revolution.
Cited in IMF Article IV Review (page 73)
Contractual Enforcement and Input Customization in Inter-Firm Trade (joint with S. Darzilarijani and J. Jose)
Work in Progress
Size-Based Regulations and Worker Welfare
Size Distribution of Firms and Carbon Emissions: Evidence from a Natural Experiment in India (joint with J. Jose)
On Measuring the Cost of Size-Based Regulations
Bankruptcy Reform and Firm Access to Credit: Evidence from India
Teaching
Macroeconomic Theory II, Core Ph.D. Course, 2023 - Present
Intermediate Macroeconomics, Undergraduate Level, 2023 - Present