Current Research

• “Growth in a Graying Economy”, with Andrea Giusto & Jayanta Sarkar, 2018.
• "Persistent Inequality under Endogenous Aspirations", with Jeff Allen, 2018.
  
• "Procapitalist Culture and Long-Term Development", with Jeff Allen, 2019.
  
• "Death and Capital: Investment with and without Annuities", with Mausumi Das, 2019.
• "Longevity Convergence" with Ania Aksan.

Published Work

• "Death and Capital" with Mausumi Das, Macroeconomic Dynamics, 2019, forthcoming.
• "Financial Deepening", Arthaniti: Journal of Economic Theory & Practice, 2019, forthcoming.
• "Aspirations, Health and the Cost of Inequality" with Jeff Allen, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 2018.
• "Contraception and the Demographic Transition" with Joydeep Bhattacharya, Economic Journal, 2017.
  
• "The Culture of Entrepreneurship" with Jon Thompson and Etienne Yehoue, Journal of Economic Theory, 2016.
  
• “Health Cycles and Health Transitions” with Chris Papageorgiou and Fidel Perez-Sebastian, Macroeconomic Dynamics, 2016.
• "Culture in Development" with Jon Thompson and Etienne Yehoue, World Bank Economic Review, 2015.
  
• "Mortality versus Morbidity in the Demographic Transition" with Ania Aksan, European Economic Review, 2014. Formerly titled "Twin Transitions"
• “Childhood Disease and the Precautionary Demand for Children” with Ania Aksan, Journal of Population Economics, 2013.
• “Fertility Choice under Child Mortality and Social Norms” with Joydeep Bhattacharya,  Economic Letters, 2012.
• "The Quality of Public Investment" with Era Dabla-Norris, The B.E. Journal of Macroeconomics (Contributions), 2011.
• "Diseases, Infection Dynamics and Development” with Chris Papageorgiou and Fidel Perez-Sebastian, Journal of Monetary Economics, 2010. (Supplementary Material)
• "The Development and Structure of Financial Systems", with Tridip Ray, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 2007.
• "Costly Intermediation and the Poverty of Nations", with Amartya Lahiri, International Economic Review, 2007.
• "Rent Seeking", with Era Dabla-Norris, IMF Staff Papers, 2006.
• "Mortality, Human Capital and Persistent Inequality", with Mausumi Das, Journal of Economic Growth, 2006.
• "Bank-based versus Market-based Financial Systems: A Growth-theoretic Analysis", with Tridip Ray, Journal of Monetary Economics, 2006.
• "Mortality, Fertility and Child Labor" with Mausumi Das, Economics Letters, 2005.
• "What do Information Frictions do?" with Joydeep Bhattacharya, Economic Theory, 2005.
• "Endogenous Lifetime and Economic Growth", Journal of Economic Theory, 2004.
• "Agency Costs in Dynamic Economic Models", with Costas Azariadis, Economic Journal, 1999.
• "Asset Price Volatility in a Non-convex General Equilibrium Model", with Costas Azariadis, Economic Theory, 1998.