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Assistant Professor
(Teaching), Dept. of Economics, University of Missouri Contact: sharmag@missouri.edu 228 Professional Building, Dept.
of Economics, University of Missouri Columbia
MO 65211 Phone: 573-882-3161; Fax: Office Hours: Tuesday 2.30-4,
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Publications ·
“India’s Mysterious Manufacturing Miracle”,
(with P. Klenow and A. Bollard),
Review of Economic Dynamics (forthcoming) Link to latest version ·
“Skill Upgrading in Indian Manufacturing
Industries” (with R. Chamarbagwala) , Journal of Development
Economics (2011) PDF ·
“Price Effects
of Preferential Market Access: The Caribbean Basin Initiative and the Apparel
Sector,” (with C. Ozden) World Bank Economic Review, May 2006,
Volume 20, No. 2, pp. 241-259. PDF Working Papers ·
“Together
we stand? Agglomeration in Indian Manufacturing Industry” (with A. Fernandes)
September 2010, Revised and resubmitted, Journal of Development
Economics. PDF Abstract: We use plant-level data from India for
the period 1980-2007 to examine the impact of industrial policy reforms on
the geographic concentration of manufacturing industries. First, our
estimates show that while geographic concentration of overall manufacturing
activity fell after 1991, relative and absolute concentration increased for
the industries that were de-licensed. Secondly, as the effects of
de-licensing fade over a longer time span, the effects of trade and FDI
liberalization set in and raise geographic concentration. Third, all three
reforms increase the divergence between the spatial distribution of private
and public sector plants. Fourth, the response of spatial concentration to
various mechanisms exhibits significant plant size-based differences arising
from administrative details of the licensing regime. Large plants which faced
the most location constraints pre-reforms respond more to the de-licensing
reforms. ·
“Crime
and Inequality in India”, April 2011 PDF Abstract: We examine the relationship between
crime and inequality in Indian districts in 1988 and 2004. We find that
inequality increases most types of property and violent crime and that inequality
within religious and caste groups drive this relationship. Our results are
robust to district fixed effects as well as to controls for the costs and
bene_ts of criminal activity. Geographically weighted regressions reveal
substantial spatial variation in the correlation between both property and
violent crime and inequality, as well as a weakening relationship between all
types of crime and inequality in 2004 compared to 1988. ·
“Competing
or Collaborating Siblings: Industrial and Trade Policies in India”. Working
Paper 06- 10, University of Missouri, August 2006. PDF latest version Abstract: We investigate the link between
industrial de-regulation, trade reform and unit-level productivity using two
unique microeconomic data sets from India. We use disaggregated data on the
dismantling of the “License Raj” in India (operating from the 1950s onwards)
and find that removal of microeconomic constraints (that accompanied a
license to produce) as well a rise in the threat of potential entry raised
output per worker by 8.5%-17%. We also exploit the chronology of reforms in
India and find that industries and firms that were de-licensed in the 1980s
tend to perform better vis productivity after trade liberalization in 1991.
We use an administrative requirement of the “Licensing Raj” to identify the
impact of de-licensing –size-based exemption from licensing requirements.
This institutional feature provides within-industry variation as well as a
specification test – we conduct the analysis for hypothetical thresholds
(that is, we falsely assign firms to the treatment) and find that there is no
size-based response to de-licensing around these artificial thresholds. We
also create a psuedo-panel of firms and find that our results are robust to
firm-fixed effects. Works in Progress ·
“Sourcing and Sophistication Decisions: Input
choice by Indian Manufacturing” (with E. Ghani, A. Fernandes and S.
OConnell). PDF ·
“Determinants of Clusters in Indian Manufacturing:
The Role of Infrastructure, Governance, Education and Industrial Policy”
(with A. Fernandes). PDF Teaching ·
Introduction to
International Economics: ECON 3224 ·
Theory of the Firm: ECON 3251 ·
Intermediate Microeconomics: ECON 4351 ·
International Trade (part II of graduate trade
sequence): ECON 9427 Links ·
University of Maryland Economics ·
University of Missouri Economics |
CV
ECON 3224
ECON 4351
ECON 3251
ECON 9427
Brown Bag Series Spring 2011
SOUTH
ASIAN STUDIES committee
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