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Investigating the root of inflation in Sri Lanka–Money supply or exchange rate?

In 2022, Sri Lanka faced a severe financial crisis coupled with high inflation that peaked at 70% year-over-year. While the dominant public discourse blames governments ‘printing too much money’ as the cause for inflation, monetary expansion is not the only way to explain uncontrolled price rises. This project examines the Sri Lankan case through two antagonistic theoretical explanations of inflation using quantitative data, political economy analysis, and econometric tools.

Conservation why? A political ecology investigation of wildlife laws in India

In 2022, a three decade-old bird sanctuary in central India was de-notified by the national government as the project had failed—all the birds were dead, and local communities were unhappy at losing land rights when the sanctuary was declared. Such conflict over land, a common theme across conservation projects in independent India, can be traced to an ideological stance that conservation requires exclusion of humans to protect nature, with the marginalized being the easiest to exclude. This project aims to understand the ideological basis of Indian conservation laws, particularly the Wild Life (Protection) Act of 1972, and their implications for policy and social justice.

publications

Towards an empirically informed agent-based model for collective groundwater management

2023.

Can community-based collective resource management provide a viable alternative to privatization or centralized government control of scarce resources? Building upon complexity theory and the results of a recent behavioural study, this paper proposes a preliminary agent-based model for groundwater management in southern India. The proposed model can be developed for applications in policy research and as an interactive role-playing game to aid future behavioural studies.

Science, politics, and wildlife policy: Exclusionary conservation in Karera, India

2023.

How do ideology and politics influence seemingly objective questions of conservation science, and what implications does this have for wildlife policy and human rights? Using the case study of a failed bird conservation project in central India, this study seeks to answer this question through a political ecology lens.

Financialization of NFCs: Case study of Infosys Limited

2024. Co-authored with Sofiya Makohin.

There is a lot of talk about the 'financialization' of non-financial companies (NFCs) since the 1970s, but how can financialization be defined and quantified? Based on indicators and theoretical perspectives drawn from a survey of corporate financialization literature, this paper analyzes the financialization of the Indian multinational NFC, Infosys Limited.

The impact of political stability on FDI? A panel analysis of ASEAN Economies

2024. Co-authored with Risolat Tashmatova.

Does local political stability impact FDI (foreign direct investment) inflows into developing countries? This study uses panel data regression analysis to answer this question for the case of South-East Asian countries, in the period between the 2008 financial crisis and the onset of the COVID pandemic.

Econometric analysis of competing theories of inflation in Sri Lanka—Money supply or exchange rate?

2024. EPOG+ master thesis.

What causes inflation? Approaching the question from two competing theoretical angles, this paper proposes two models to explain the high inflation that occurred in Sri Lanka during the financial crisis of 2022. It then provides a first econometric evaluation of the two models.

teaching

Teaching experience 1

Undergraduate course, University 1, Department, 2014

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Teaching experience 2

Workshop, University 1, Department, 2015