developing economy, India, with the help of a large dataset. The paper empirically validates status consciousness among the … relatively poor for both rural and urban areas across the states of India. The hypotheses that inequality impacts consumption …

We provide an explanation for a frequently observed vertical restraint in ecommerce, namely that brand manufacturers …-quality product and limits the wholesale price a brand manufacturer can charge. If, however, the branded product is not available … price is salient in the store, this aligns the retailer's incentives with the brand manufacturer's interest to make quality …

We analyze structural state dependence in brand choice using variation from brand switching during stock-outs caused by … brand switching due to stock-outs. …

Since the late 1970s, the price indices underlying the poverty lines in India have been updated using aggregate indices … higher levels of poverty in eastern India, and generally, smaller reductions in poverty from 2005 to 2010. Our poverty …