Bio

I am a second-year PhD student in Economics at the University of California, Berkeley. I’m interested in growth, trade and spatial economics, microeconomic theory, and the design of institutions.

I completed a BS (Research) in Mathematics from the Indian Institute of Science, and an MS in Econometrics and Mathematical Economics from the London School of Economics. I have been supported by the Fulcrum Fellowship, a regrant from the FTX Future Fund, the KVPY Fellowship from the Government of India, and the NTSE Scholarship from the Government of India.

Publications

• On a class of strategy-proof social choice correspondences with single-peaked utility functions [+] Abstract

  We consider the problem of constructing strategy-proof rules that choose sets of alternatives based on the preferences of voters, modelled as Social Choice Correspondences (SCCs) in the literature. We focus on two domain restrictions inspired by Barberà et al. (2001) in the context of single-peaked utility functions. We find that for the narrower domain, the set of tops-only, unanimous, and strategy-proof SCCs coincides with the class of unions of two min–max rules (Moulin, 1980). For the broader domain, the set of SCCs coincides with the class of unions of two 'adjacent' min–max rules, meaning the corresponding parameters for the two rules must be either the same or consecutive alternatives.

  
  With: Soumyarup Sadhukhan
  Journal of Mathematical Economics, December 2023
  [PDF] [Journal article]

Teaching

• ECON 100A: Microeconomics (Fall 2025)

  For undergraduates: office hours booking link.

Other

I grew up in Bengaluru, India’s pensioners’ paradise garden city tech capital and one of the world’s fastest growing cities over my lifetime. It is a cosmopolitan migrant hub of the country and today among the most traffic-congested cities in the world. We are all regional thinkers, so I think a lot about growth, agglomeration, migration, and cities. Here is my explainer of the land value tax.

I am an amateur (once professional) forecaster, and a member of Samotsvety Forecasting, a leading foreacasting group.

I occasionally write on my economics and policy substack. My twitter, my goodreads.