Chakraborty, Shankha

 

Recent Submissions

  • Battling Infection, Fighting Stagnation 
    Chakraborty, Shankha; Papageorgiou, Chris (University of Oregon, Dept of Economics, 2010-09)
    Why are some countries mired in poverty and ill health? Can policy facilitate their transition to sustained growth and better living standards? We offer answers using a dynamic model of disease and development. Endogenous ...
  • Mortality, fertility, and child labor 
    Chakraborty, Shankha; Das, Mausumi (University of Oregon, Dept. of Economics, 2003-12)
    We discuss how child labor problems may persist in developing countries when adult mortality risks are endogenous. Children provide current consumption through child labor and future consumption via an informal social ...
  • The Development and Structure of Financial Systems 
    Chakraborty, Shankha; Ray, Tridip (University of Oregon, Dept. of Economics, 2003-11-01)
    We introduce monitored bank loans and non-monitored tradeable securities as sources of external finance for firms in a dynamic general equilibrium model. Due to frictions arising from moral hazard, access to credit and ...
  • Mortality, Human Capital and Persistent Inequality 
    Chakraborty, Shankha; Das, Mausumi (University of Oregon, Dept. of Economics, 2003-03-20)
    Available evidence suggests high intergenerational correlation of economic status, and persistent disparities in health status between the rich and the poor. This paper proposes a novel mechanism linking the two. We introduce ...
  • Bank-based versus Market-based Financial Systems: A Growth-theoretic Analysis 
    Chakraborty, Shankha; Ray, Tridip (University of Oregon, Dept. of Economics, 2003-02-01)
    We study bank-based and market-based financial systems in an endogenous growth model. Lending to firms is fraught with moral hazard as owner-managers may reduce investment profitability to enjoy private benefits. Bank ...
  • What do Information Frictions do? 
    Bhattacharya, Joydeep; Chakraborty, Shankha (University of Oregon, Dept. of Economics, 2003-02-14)
    Numerous researchers have incorporated labor or credit market frictions within simple neoclassical models to (i) facilitate quick departures from the Arrow-Debreu world, thereby opening up the role for institutions, (ii) ...
  • Inequality, Industrialization and Financial Structure 
    Chakraborty, Shankha; Ray, Tridip (University of Oregon, Dept. of Economics, 2003-01-01)
    We introduce monitored bank loans and non-monitored tradeable securities as sources of external finance for firms in a dynamic general equilibrium model. Due to frictions arising from moral hazard, access to credit and ...
  • Costly Intermediation and the Poverty of Nations 
    Chakraborty, Shankha; Lahiri, Amartya (University of Oregon, Dept. of Economics, 2003-01-01)
    Distortions in private investment due to credit frictions, and in public investment due to corruption and bureaucratic inefficiencies, have both been suggested as important factors in accounting for the cross-country per ...
  • Endogenous Lifetime and Economic Growth 
    Chakraborty, Shankha (University of Oregon, Dept. of Economics, 2002-01-26)
    Conventional wisdom attributes the severity of mortality in poorer countries to widespread poverty and inadequate living conditions. This paper considers the possibility that persistent poverty may arise, in turn, from a ...