EDUCATION
PhD in Economics, June 2022 (expected)
Toulouse School of Economics (TSE)
MRes in Economics, 2018
Toulouse School of Economics (TSE)
MSc in Economics, 2014
London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
BA (with honors) in Economics, 2013
Miranda House, University of Delhi
WORK EXPERIENCE
Teaching Instructor, TSE, 2017-2019
Consultant, OECD, July 2020-March 2021
Consultant, ICRIER, New Delhi, July 2017- September 2017
Research Assistant, ICRIER, New Delhi, September 2014-July 2016
Consultant, World Bank, New Delhi, November 2014-June 2016
WORKING PAPERS
"Explaining smartphone adoption in India using a structural model of demand and supply"
"The short term cost of cash and digitisation: Evidence from a natural experiment in India"
with Mauro Pisu and Helia Costa
"Is the first mover's advantage sufficient to protect new product innovations in the presence of widespread imitation?"
with Luise Eisfeld
PUBLICATIONS
“Mobile Payments and Interoperability: Insights from the Academic Literature”, Milo Bianchi, Matthieu Bouvard, Renato Gomes, Andrew Rhodes, and Vatsala Shreeti, TSE Working Paper, n. 21-1279, December 2021.
"The Impact of Bilateral Investment Treaties on FDI Inflows into India: Some Empirical Results", Parnil Urdhwareshe, Jaivir Singh, Vatsala Shreeti, Foreign Trade Review, p.00157325211027374, 2020.
AWARDS AND HONORS
Research Scholarship, UT1 Capitole-TSE, October 2021 - present
Award for Job Market Paper, TSE, 2021
Research Fellowship, Centre Nationale de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), 2020
Doctoral Scholarship, UT1 Capitole-TSE, 2017-2020
Jean Jacques Laffont Graduate Scholarship, 2016-17
Charpak BCS Scholarship, Embassy of France in India, 2016-17
Malan Devi Bhalla Prize for best student in Economics, University of Delhi, 2013
Angeli Qwatra Prize for excellence in Social Sciences, University of Delhi, 2013
Principal's Golden Jubilee Certificate, University of Delhi, 2013
SEMINARS AND CONFERENCES
2022
Indian School of Business (invited), CESifo Munich, Centre for Competition Policy (University of East Anglia), Bank for International Settlements, Institute-Mines Telecom (Paris), Uber, Ofcom, Indian Institute of Management (Ahmedebad), Ashoka University (declined), NBER Economics of Digitization workshop (declined), NBER Economics of Privacy workshop (declined)
2021
NBER Economics of Digitisation workshop, EBE Summer Meeting Plenary Session (Munich), 4th Doctoral workshop of Economics of Digitisation (TSE, Toulouse), ICDE (Bordeaux), EARIE (Bergen), OECD brown bag seminar, ICRIER Half-Baked Seminar (New Delhi), EUDN PhD seminar (Wageningen)
2020
EUI (Florence, cancelled), University of Warwick (UK), EBE Summer Meeting (Munich, cancelled); Applied Micro workshop, (TSE), BID workshop, (TSE)
2019
EARIE (Barcelona), Applied Micro workshop (TSE)
2018
DLPP workshop (TSE) , Industrial Organisation workshop (TSE)
2013
LSE Summer School in Econometrics
SKILLS AND MENTORSHIP
Technical: MATLAB, Stata, R, LaTeX, MS Office
Languages: English, Hindi, Maithili (native), French (fluent), Spanish (basic)
Mentorship: Mentor for Women in Economics at TSE and for Women in Economics and Policy
Others: Electronic Keyboard, Painting