Policy

Recent Policy Work

• Fast payments: desgin and adoption (BIS Quarterly Review, March 2024)

• How did India's cash shortage affect mobile payments?  (TSE Reflect, 2022)
  A short report on the consequences of the Indian banknote demonetization of 2016 on the uptake of mobile payments.

• Price Regulation of UPI  (Indian Express, 2022)
  Opinion Editorial in the Indian Express discussing the key challenges of price regulation for the Unified Payments Interface in India.

• Charges in Payment Systems   (TSE FIT IN  Policy Paper, 2022)
  Building on insights from the economics literature, particularly on two-sided markets, and experiences from other jurisdictions, this policy paper sheds light on issues related to pricing of digital payment methods.
  
  

Policy Research prior to PhD

• Regulation of Digital Payment Platforms in India

        Internal note prepared for the Indian Council of Research on International Economic Relations (ICRIER)

• A Window of Opportunity -  A statewide study of adoloscents and young women in Jharkhand, India

       Data analysis for World Bank report

• Quantifying the Value of an Open Internet for India

       Report prepared for Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office, Government of UK

• The impact of  bilateral investment treaties on FDI inflows into India
  
  

Published in Foreign Trade Review, last updated in 2016

• The Impact of ASEAN integration on regional and global supply chains

       Internal report prepared for ICRIER 

• Implementing BharatNet: Strategies for rural broadband deployment

       Internal report prepared for Telecom Regulatory Authority of India 

• Opinion Editorials

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