the aggregate
productivity effects of entry and output restrictions: an analysis of
license reform in india(PDF)
firing costs and Flexibility: evidence from firms' labor adjustment to shocks in india (with achyuta
adhvaryu and siddharth sharma)[PDF]
diluting deterrence: extra-legal actors and the courts[PDF]
mini-betas and
mega-betas: a new class of estimators for the linear model (with mike
boozer)(in progress)
We introduce a
conceptually simple methodology for constructing estimators for a
linear model that should be pedagogically useful (at least).
quality specialization and the dynamics of trade policy (with amit khandelwal) (in progress)
This presents and (partially explains) some novel results that relate
the extent of tariff protection in the US to the technological gap
between US and foreign producers. We offer one explanation for how
these results could arise, by constructing a model of tariff evolution
over the lifetime of a product.
holes (in progress) I derive here the novel prediction that when ex-ante
uncertainty about productivity interacts with fixed costs of
adjustment, the result is 'holes' in the observed size distribution of
firms.