Abhishek is a lecturer at the University of Southampton. He finished his PhD from the Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research (IGIDR), Mumbai, in 2022.  He was an Associate Fellow at CSEP from 2021 to 2022 and a Visiting Researcher at the University College London (UCL) from 2019 to 2020.

In the past, he has worked as a Consultant for Queen Mary Global Policy Institute, Asian Development Bank (Manila) and UNU-WIDER. He also worked as a Project Associate at the National Institute of Public finance and Policy (NIPFP), University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, USA, and National Health Service, UK. Prior to his PhD, he taught at the University of Delhi for more than 4 Years.

His research interests are in Structural Macro-Econometrics, New Keynesian models and Applied Econometrics. He aims to contribute to designing evidence-based macroeconomic policies in India. He has an M.Phil. degree from IGIDR and the University of Delhi, and postgraduate and bachelor’s degrees from the University of Delhi.

Articles in Popular Press

• Measuring Indian GDP: Arvind Subramanian Can’t Be Taken Seriously (With Ashima Goyal)
• Over-reaction in Indian monetary policy (With Ashima Goyal)

Journal Articles

• Bank Credit Risk and Macro-Prudential Policies: Role of counter-cyclical capital buffer (With Nadia Benbouzid, Sushanta Mallick, Ricardo M. Sousa, and Aleksandar Stojanovic) Forthcoming Journal of Financial Stability
• Market volatility, monetary policy and the term premium (with Sushanta Mallick, M S Mohanty and Fabrizio Zampolli), Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics
• Are autocracies bad for the environment? Global evidence from two centuries of data (With Apra Sinha, Ashish Sedai, and Rabindra Nepal ), The Energy Journal, IAEE
• Policy Errors and Business Cycle Fluctuations: Evidence from an Emerging Economy (With Sushanta Mallick and Apra Sinha), Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization
• Financial Uncertainty in Asia: Is bond market volatility different? (with Jungsuk Kim, Donghyun Park and Sushanta Mallick), Annals of Operations Research
• Is uncertainty the same everywhere? Advanced versus emerging economies (With Sushanta Mallick and Apra Sinha), Economic Modelling
• News, Noise and Indian Business Cycle (With Ashima Goyal), Bulletin of Economic Research
• Asymmetry, terms of trade and the aggregate supply curve in an open economy model (With Ashima Goyal), The Journal of Economic Asymmetries
• A DSGE Model-Based Evaluation of the Indian Slowdown (With Ashima Goyal), Journal of International Commerce, Economics and Policy 
• Determinants of Firm-Level Investment in India: Does Size Matter? (With Parul Bhardwaj), Macroeconomics and Finance in Emerging Market Economies
• Indian Growth is Not Overestimated: Mr. Subramanian You Got it Wrong (With Ashima Goyal), Macroeconomics and Finance in Emerging Market Economies
• Usage of Formal Financial Services in India: Demand Barriers or Supply Constraints? (With Rama Pal and Rupayan Pal), Economic Modelling
• Money and Business Cycle: Evidence from India (With Ashima Goyal), The Journal of Economic Asymmetries
• Active Monetary Policy and the Slowdown: Evidence from DSGE Based Indian Aggregate Demand and Supply (With Ashima Goyal), The Journal of Economic Asymmetries
• The effect of oil shocks and cyclicality in hiding Indian twin deficits (With Ashima Goyal), Journal of Economic Studies

Submitted

• Oil Price Dynamics in Times of Uncertainty: Revisiting the Role of Demand and Supply shocks (with Sushanta Mallick)
• Exchange Rate Pass-through to Prices and Wages in a Large Emerging Economy (with Sushanta Mallick)
• Effects of productivity growth on domestic savings across countries (with Sushanta Mallick and Kunal Sen)

Working Paper

• Are autocracies bad for the environment? Global evidence from two centuries of data (With Apra Sinha, Ashish Sedai, and Rabindra Nepal ), CAMA Working Paper Version
• What Drives Indian Inflation? Supply or Demand (With Ashima Goyal)

Work in Progress

• Optimism and Pessimism in Indian Business Cycle (With Ashima Goyal)
• Neo Fisher Effects In Indian Monetary Policy (With Ashima Goyal)

Other Publications

• Aggregate Demand Management, Policy Errors and Optimal Monetary Policy in India, (With Barendra Kumar Bhoi, and Prashant Mehul Parab), India Development Report, 2021, Oxford University Press. IGIDR Working Paper Version
• Growth of Finance, Real Estate and Business Services: Explorations in an Inter-Sectoral Framework (With Sukanya Bose), Working Paper Version, Book Chapter
• Macroeconomic Policy Simulations for the 14th Finance Commission 
• Book Review: Advances in Finance & Applied Economics, Edited by N.R. Bhanumurthy, K. Shanmugan, Shriram Nerlekar and Sandeep Hegade: Indian Journal of Agricultural Economics (April-June 2019)