Publications

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Structural Change and Economic Growth in India: Patterns and Heterogeneity Among the States and Possible Implications for Post-Pandemic Recovery (with A. Sanyal), India Policy Forum, 2021

Environmental Issues, Economic Policies and Agricultural Development: The Case of Punjab, India (with R. Liu and A. Sanyal), Indian Public Policy Review, 2 (2): 25-48, 2020

Mental Health Policy in India: Seven Sets of Questions and Some Answers (with A. Mirza), Journal of Mental Health Policy and Economics, 22 (1), pp. 25-37, 2019

The Three Pillars of Sikhism: A Note on Origins, Sikh Research Journal, 4 (1), pp. 45-52, 2019

Punjab’s Agricultural Innovation Challenge, in eds. Lakhwinder Singh and Anita Gill, Agricultural Innovation Systems in Asia: Towards Inclusive Rural Development, Oxford: Routledge, pp. 276-291

What Can We Learn from Global and Regional Rankings of Countries?, (with H. Aytug and S.H. Law), Millennial Asia, 9 (2), pp. 119-139, 2018

Holding India Together: The Role of Institutions of Federalism, in eds. A. Mishra and T. Ray, Markets, Governance and Institutions in the Process of Economic Development, New Delhi: Oxford University Press, pp. 300-323

Revisiting the finance-innovation nexus: Evidence from a non-linear approach (with S.H. Law and W.C. Lee), Journal of Innovation and Knowledge, 3 (3), pp. 143-153, 2018

The Challenge of Translating the Guru Granth Sahib: An Illustration and Preliminary Reflections, Sikh Research Journal, 2017, 2 (2), March 2017

Journal of Punjab Studies, Two Issue Special Volume – The Legacy of 1984 and Contemporary Challenges for Punjab, India, ed. (with J.S. Chima). Santa Barbara: Center for Sikh and Punjabi Studies

The Other One Percent: Indians in America (with S. Chakravorty and D. Kapur), New York: Oxford University Press, 2016

Economic Transformation of a Developing Economy: The Experience of Punjab, India, ed. (with L. Singh), Singapore: Springer, 2016

Reforming India’s Institutions of Public Expenditure Governance, in eds. D. Kapur, P. B. Mehta and M. Vaishnav, Rethinking Public Institutions in India, New Delhi: Oxford University Press, pp. 180-224, 2017

Guest Editor’s Introduction to Part 1 (with J.S. Chima), Journal of Punjab Studies, Special Volume – The Legacy of 1984 and Contemporary Challenges for Punjab, India, 22 (1), pp. 1-4, 2017

Guest Editor’s Introduction to Part 2 (with J.S. Chima), Journal of Punjab Studies, Special Volume – The Legacy of 1984 and Contemporary Challenges for Punjab, India, 22 (2), pp. 203-207, 2017

How Do Extreme Global Shocks Affect Foreign Portfolio Investment? An Event Study for India (with J. Rabanal and A. Yaha), Emerging Markets Finance and Trade, 53 (8), 1923-38, 2017

Freedom and Digital India, in P.J. Shah (ed.), Liberalism in India: Past, Present and Future, New Delhi: Centre for Civil Society, pp. 47-59, 2016

Fiscal Federalism, in S. Choudhry, M. Khosla and P.B. Mehta (eds.), Oxford Handbook of the Indian Constitution, New York, Oxford University Press, pp. 521-539, 2016

Introduction (with L. Singh), in Economic Transformation of a Developing Economy: The Experience of Punjab, India, eds. (L. Singh and N. Singh), Singapore: Springer, pp. 1-25, 2016

Breaking the Mould: Thoughts on Punjab’s Future Economic Development, in Economic Transformation of a Developing Economy: The Experience of Punjab, India, eds. (L. Singh and N. Singh), Singapore: Springer, pp. 451-456, 2016

Heterogeneous Patterns of Financial Development: Implications for Asian Financial Integration (with L. Bun), International Economic Journal, 30 (2), pp. 243-271, 2016

Cosmopolitanism, Tradition and Identity: Framing the Sikh Experience in California, Sikh Research Journal, 1 (5), September, 2016

Foreign Currency Borrowing by Indian Firms: Toward a New Policy Framework (with I. Patnaik and A. Shah), India Policy Forum, Vol. 12, pp. 139-174, 2015

Analysing the Structural Change and Growth Relationship in India (with O. Cortuk), Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. 50 (24), pp. 91-98, 2015

Guest Editor’s Introduction, India Review, Special Issue – India’s Economy: Growth, Governance and Reform, 14 (1), pp. 1-7, 2015

Regional Inequality in India in the 1990s: A District-level View, (with J. Kendall, R. K. Jain, and J. Chander), Economic and Political Weekly, Vol. 49 (15), pp. 71-76, 2014

Financial Integration and Financial Development in East Asia, (with I. Kaur), Millennial Asia, Vol. 5 (1), pp. 1-22 , 2014

Does Too Much Finance Harm Economic Growth?, (with S.H. Law), Journal of Banking and Finance, Vol. 41, pp. 36-44 , 2014

Markets, Morals and Motives: Economics and the Guru Granth Sahib, Sikh Review, 2013

China, India, and Industrial Policy for Inclusive Growth (with I. Kaur), China Economic Policy Review, Vol. 2(1), pp. 1375001-1 to 27, 2013

Bridging the Digital Divide in Rural India: Lessons from a Survey in Four States (with Y. Zhou, K. Williams, J. Kendall and P.D. Kaushik), Review of Market Integration, Vol. 5 (1), pp. 1-42 , 2013

Dove or Hawk? Characterizing Monetary Policy Regime Switches in India (with M. Hutchison and R. Sengupta), Emerging Markets Review, Vol. 16, pp. 181-202 , 2013

Foreign Investors under Stress: Evidence from India (with I. Patnaik and A. Shah), International Finance, Vol. 16 (2), pp. 213-244 , 2013

Turkey’s Trilemma Trade-offs: Is there a role for reserves? (with O. Cortuk), Iktisat Isletme ve Finans, Vol. 28 (328), pp. 105-122 , 2013

Trade productivity upgrading, trade fragmentation, and FDI in manufacturing: The Asian development experience (with J. Mora), Indian Growth and Development Review, Vol. 6 (1), pp. 61-87, 2013

Trade Dynamics in the East Asian Miracle: A Time Series Analysis of US–East Asia Commodity Trade, 1962–1992 (with T. Carolan and J. Mora), Millennial Asia, Vol. 4 (1), pp. 87-108 , 2013

Information Technology and Productivity in Indian Manufacturing (with S. Sharma), India Policy Forum, Vol. 9, pp. 187-229, 2012

Effectiveness of Capital Controls in India: Evidence from the Offshore NDF Market (with M. Hutchison and G. Pasricha), IMF Economic Review, Vol. 60, pp. 395–438 , 2012

Internet Kiosks in Rural India: Gender, Caste and Location (with J. Kendall), Review of Market Integration, Vol. 4 (1), pp. 1-43, 2012

Information Technology and its Role in India’s Economic Development: A Review, in ed. S. Mahendra Dev and S. Babu, Development in India: Micro and Macro Perspectives, Singapore: Springer, 283-312, 2015

India’s Trilemma: Financial Liberalization, Exchange Rates and Monetary Policy (with Michael M. Hutchison and Rajeswari Sengupta), World Economy, 35 (1), 3-18, 2012

The Digital Divide in Rural South Asia: Survey Evidence from Bangladesh, Nepal and Sri Lanka (with Yan Zhou and P. D. Kaushik), Indian Institute of Management (Bangalore) Review, 23, 15-29, 2011

Some Market Measures of Capital Account Liberalization in India, (with Michael Hutchison and Gurnain Pasricha), in China and Asia in the Global Economy, ed. Yin-Wong Cheung and Guonan Ma, World Scientific Publishing, 2011

Expenditure Governance and Information Technology: Assessing India’s Situation and Potential, India Review, 9 (2), 107-139, 2010

Estimating a Monetary Policy Rule for India, (with Michael Hutchison and Rajeswari Sengupta), Economic and Political Weekly, 45 (38), 67-69, 2010

The Management of International Rivers as Demands Grow and Supplies Tighten: India, China, Nepal, Pakistan, Bangladesh, (with B. Crow), India Review, 8 (3), 306-339, 2009

Intermediaries in E-Commerce: Value Creation Roles, in Encyclopedia of E-Business Development and Management in the Digital Economy, ed., In Lee, Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 188-197, 2009

Equilibrium Vengeance (with D. Friedman), Games and Economic Behavior, 66 (2), 813-829, 2008

Transaction Costs, Information Technology and Development, Indian Growth and Development Review, 1 (2), 212-236, 2008

Decentralization and Public Delivery of Health Care Services in India, Health Affairs, 27, no. 4 991-1001, 2008

Buy-It-Now: A Hybrid Market Institution (with S. Anderson, D. Friedman and G. Milam), Journal of Electronic Commerce Research, 9 (2), 137-153, 2008

Crossing a Chasm: Technologies, Institutions and Policies for Developing a Regional IT Industry, in ICTs and Indian Social Change: Diffusion, Poverty and Governance, Ashwani Saith, M. Vijayabaskar and V. Gayathri ed., New Delhi: Sage Publications, 192-218, 2008

Services-Led Industrialization in India: Assessment and Lessons, in Industrial Development for the 21st Century: Sustainable Development Perspectives, ed. David O’Connor, New York: Orient Longman, 235-291, 2008

Market Institutions: An Expository Essay, Economics, Management, and Financial Markets, 5(2), 210-36, 2010

Fiscal Decentralization in China and India: Competitive, Cooperative or Market Preserving Federalism?, Public Finance and Management, 9 (1), available at http://www.spaef.com/article.php?id=433, 2007

Seller Strategies on eBay: Does Size Matter?”, (with Steve Anderson, Daniel Friedman and Garrett Milam) International Journal of Electronic Business, Vol. 5, No. 6, 643-669, 2007