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Pavel Chakraborty

Lancaster University
p.chakraborty1@lancaster.ac.uk

Pavel Chakraborty is Associate Professor of Economics at the Management School, Lancaster University. His research interests broadly include the dynamics of firms in developing countries related to various issues concerning trade, labour markets, innovation, and finance.

He holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the Graduate Institute (IHEID), Geneva. Prior to joining Lancaster, he worked as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of Economics, University of Oxford and as an Assistant Professor at Jawaharlal Nehru University. He also held short-term visiting positions at Bank of Finland, CAFRAL, Reserve Bank of India, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore

Posts by Pavel Chakraborty

New banks, credit, and misallocation

In the late 1990s, India opened its banking sector to new private banks – both domestic and foreign. This article shows that this resulted in greater flow of credit – but only for big firms. Highe...

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Intellectual property rights and wage inequality

Technology has become central to most everyday activities. But will incentives for technological change – such as those induced by Covid-19 – cause deeper distortions in the global economy, especi...

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Import competition, formalisation, and role of contract workers

Given the recent expansion in the participation of developing countries in global trade, it is important to understand the role of trade in the composition of employment in these countries. Analysing ...

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