Blog Posts

Posts published at The LEAP Journal — a research blog on law, economics, and policy in India.

2025
Nov 2025with Ajay Shah
Electricity cost recovery and the political imagination: A comparison between private and public distribution in India's biggest cities
Aug 2025with Rounak Hande, Ayush Patnaik, Ajay Shah
The economies of Russia and Ukraine in the war
Jul 2025with Jay Kulkarni
Households that live within their means in India
Jun 2025with Mugdha Mohapatra, Siddarth Raman
Get them to the court on time: bumps in the road to justice
2024
Aug 2024with Aneesha Chitgupi, Ajay Shah, Manish Kumar Singh, Harsh Vardhan
Who lends to the Indian state?
Mar 2024
Rethinking innovation policy in India: amplifying spillovers through contracting-out
Jan 2024with Pavithra Manivannan, Bhargavi Zaveri-Shah
Survey-based measurement of Indian courts
2023
Dec 2023with Pavithra Manivannan, Karthik Suresh, Bhargavi Zaveri-Shah
How substantial are non-substantive hearings in Indian courts: some estimates from Bombay
Jun 2023with Pavithra Manivannan, Bhargavi Zaveri-Shah
Helping litigants make informed choices in resolving debt disputes
2022
Nov 2022with Pavithra Manivannan, Bhargavi Zaveri-Shah
The litigant perspective upon courts
Nov 2022with Aneesha Chitgupi, Abhishek Gorsi
Learning by doing and public procurement in India
Sep 2022with Aneesha Chitgupi
The make vs. buy decision of the union government
Jul 2022with Charmi Mehta
Identifying roadblocks in highway contracting: lessons from NHAI litigation
Jul 2022with Geetika Palta, Mithila A. Sarah
Measuring financial inclusion: how much do households participate in the formal financial system?
Mar 2022with Pavithra Manivannan, Bhargavi Zaveri-Shah
How did courts respond to the pandemic lockdowns: evidence from the NCLT
2021
Dec 2021with Anjali Sharma
The footprint of union government procurement in India
Nov 2021with Charmi Mehta
Lessons from the COVID-19 vaccine procurement of 2021
Oct 2021with Ayush Patnaik, Ajay Shah, Anshul Tayal
But clouds got in my way: Bias and bias correction of nighttime lights data in the presence of clouds
2019
Mar 2019with Anjali Sharma
Delays in liquidated and resolved firms: Visualisation of an output measure of the Indian bankruptcy reform
Mar 2019with Manish Kumar Singh
The geography of firms and firm formation in India
2018
Dec 2018
The Indian bankruptcy reform: The state of the art, 2018
Sep 2018with Anjali Sharma
Watching markets work: Structural change in the Nifty implied volatility
2017
Jul 2017
The Indian bankruptcy reform: The state of the art, 2017
2016
Dec 2016
Watching markets work: The dramatic events of 8 November 2016
Nov 2016with Renuka Sane
Direct participation in the Indian equity market: First estimates of some basic facts
Nov 2016
Watching markets work: The surgical strikes of 29 September 2016
May 2016
India's bankruptcy reforms: Where we are, and where we go next
2015
Sep 2015with Anjali Sharma
Is India a hospitable environment for India-related finance
Aug 2015
Witch hunt against PNs considered harmful
2014
Oct 2014with Renuka Sane
How to strengthen the National Pension System
Sep 2014with Nidhi Aggarwal
What role is played by commodity futures in India?
Sep 2014with Nidhi Aggarwal
What does algorithmic trading do to market quality?
Aug 2014with Anjali Sharma
NPAs processed by asset reconstruction companies — where did we go wrong?
Jul 2014with Nidhi Aggarwal
Concerns about individual investors on the Indian equity derivatives market