This paper examines the short run inflation dynamics in India over the period 1996-97 to 2009-10 using quarterly data. I estimate an open-economy version of the hybrid New Keynesian Phillips curve (NKPC) and find that the hybrid NKPC provides a robust explanation of the dynamics of both...

We empirically test the prediction that the personal attributes of the legislators critically determine the legislative performance of a legislature in an Indian context. Analyzing the data on the Members of the Legislative Assembly (MLAs) in the state of Tamil Nadu in the 2006-11 Assembly...

We examine the political economy causes of India's growth acceleration in the early 1990s, the periods of high growth in the 1990s and early 2000s, and the subsequent slowdown since 2011, drawing from the ESID conceptual framework (Pritchett and Werker 2013) and periodisation of growth episodes...