Karthik Narayan A. S.
@asknarayan
PhD student in Economics. @NuffieldCollege @OxfordEconDept. Previously @lseecon and @lseechist. Interested in Macroeconomics, Finance and Development. 🇮🇳
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Really enjoyed my trip to the @RBI’s Monetary museum. Gives a great glimpse of India’s monetary history right from the times of a commodity based standard for money, to gold and silver coinage all the way to banknotes, bills of exchange (and hundis!). A must visit!
From a fascinating field experiment by @suannaoh just published in the AER. Workers are willing to give up ten times their daily wage to avoid having to take on jobs with “lower caste” connotations in India. Has important implications for the shape of the sectoral labour supply
Great example of Chetty, Looney and Kroft (2009) from one of my favourite restaurants
Menu prices of a popular (and good) restaurant in Chennai
It is common for firms not to round off the prices and end in 0.99, 0.95, for known reasons.
But see the prices here; of course, there is a reason!View quoted post on X
Great interview on @Macro_Musings with the amazing @R2Rsquared discussing his latest book and the recent inflationary surge in the US
Really enjoyed the discussion on asset price bubbles and the eurozone crisis (and the misallocation of capital)
mercatus.org/macro-musings/…
www.mercatus.org Ricardo Reis on the Macroeconomics of Financial Crises and the Recent Inflation Surge The Great Recession period offers many lessons for identifying and preventing macroeconomic crises in the future. Really enjoyed the discussion on asset price bubbles and the eurozone crisis (and the misallocation of capital)
mercatus.org/macro-musings/…