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.
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.
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.
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.
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.