News

New Paper The Unholy Trinity: Regulatory Forbearance, Stressed Banks and Zombie Firms, with Lakshita Jain and Nirupama Kulkarni, November 2020.

A summary of my recent research on capital market risks in emerging markets in the NBER Reporter here. ​October 2020.

​I finally joined Twitter! Find me @anusha_chari. ​October 2020.

New paper "The Baker Hypothesis" with Peter Blair Henry and Hector Reyes. NBER Working Paper No. 27708. August 2020.

New NBER Working Paper "The Return to Capital in Capital-Scarce Countries." August 2020.

New project "Capital Flows in Risky Times: Risk-on/ Risk-off and Emerging Market Tail Risk" with Karlye Dilts Stedman and Christian Lundblad. Slides here. Preliminary Draft here. July 2020

New paper on the Stock Market Response to the COVID-19 Crisis: Latest Version here and preprint in CEPR's COVID Economics here. with Laura Alfaro, Andrew Greenland and Peter Schott. April 2o2o.

Taper Tantrums: Quantitative Easing, Its Aftermath, and Emerging Market Capital Flows with Karlye Dilts Stedman and Christian Lundblad. Forthcoming Review of Financial Studies. See link to abstract here.
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See a feature India Rising in the Carolina Arts and Sciences Magazine (Spring 2020) here.

Four paper presentations at the AEA Annual Meetings, San Diego, January 2020.

Presented new work on the International Market for Corporate Control for Brookings initiative on Multinational corporations in a changing global economy, December 19,2019.

Panelist on discussion about What does China Want?,  Krasno  Events Series, November 25, 2019.  See video here.

Discussed a paper on The Effect of the China Connect at the 2019 West Coast Workshop on International Finance, November 9, 2019.

Presented new paper on Regulatory Forbearance ​at Columbia University's Summit on the Indian Economy, November 1-2, 2019.

See a UNC Global Profile here and a UNC Research Endeavors Profile here.

Organized Modern Indian Studies Initiative's inaugural conference titled, "Driving Innovation: Technology and India's Rise as a Global Power." See conference program and register here. October 10-11, 2019.
 
Speaker on Women and Leadership Panel at Balliol Women: 40 Years On, Balliol College, Oxford. September 27-29, 2019.

Moderated a fireside chat with India's Chief Economic Advisor, hosted by the Kenan Institute, September 23, 2019.

Presenting paper “In Search of Distress Risk in Emerging Markets” at  the CBC-IMF-IMF Economic Review conf​erence on the “Current Policy Challenges Facing Emerging Markets” to be held in Santiago, Chile July 24-25, 2019.

My research on US Monetary Policy Spillovers with Karlye Dilts-Stedman and Christian  Lundblad featured in the Richmond Fed's Econ Focus Magazine. A link here.

Hosted Graduate Women in Economics event ​with PR expert Esther Campi. Some twitter coverage here.

Paper on Contract Provisions, Default Risk and Bond Prices selected for DebtCon3, ​the Third Interdisciplinary Sovereign Debt Research and Management Conference, taking place at the Georgetown University Law Center in Washington, D.C. on April 10-12, 2019.​

Interviewed for an article in the Chronicle of Higher Education ​​​​​​on the gender imbalance problem in economics. January 11, 2019.

Presented the gender paper in a CSWEP session on Gender and the Economics Profession at the AEA annual meeting in Atlanta, January 5, 2019. See my co-author's twitter thread here and more coverage here. The Economist covers the research here.

Presented new work on the international market for corporate control at conference on Multinational Corporations in a Changing Global Economy ​at the Brookings Institution, Washington DC, December 13, 2018.

Discussed a paper on the structural drivers of the global financial cycle at the ECB-FED-New York FED's Global Research Forum on International Macroeconomics and Finance, Frankfurt, 29-30 November 2018.

Discussed a paper on real exchange rates, innovation and productivity at the IMF's 19th Jacques Polak Annual Research Conference (11/1/2018).

Presented my paper on the transmission of default risk to Puerto Rico's economy at the NBER's IFM meeting (10/26/18).

Joined a research initiative on Indian Economic Policies at Columbia University (10/13/18). Coverage of the initiative here: Economics Times, Business Standard.

I presented new work on the pricing of contract provisions in Puerto Rican debt at Duke Law School (9/19/18).

My ​​co-author presented my paper on distress risk in emerging markets at the Western Finance Association Meeting (6/21/18). 

Presented my paper on US monetary policy shocks and emerging market capital flows at the 7th ITAM finance conference. (5/26/18).

Presented my paper on distress risk in emerging markets at the Bank of Mexico, Mexico City. (5/24/18).

My ​​co-author presented the gender paper at the Bank of England (5/14/18). Presentation.

​My paper on emerging market capital flows was cited in a speech by the Fed Chairman. 5/8/18.

My paper on corporate debt vulnerabilities in emerging markets was cited in a speech by the Fed Chairman. 10/12/17.

Recent Media Mentions
Research Spotlight: Gender Representation in Economics Across Topics and Time: Evidence from the NBER Summer Institute, HCEO,March 6 2018.
​Gaps in the Market​, The New Republic, February 8 2018.
Economics Starts Reckoning With Its Gender Bias Problem, Bloomberg, January 10 2018.
The gender gap in economics has ramifications far beyond the ivory tower, Washington Center for Equitable Growth, October 30 2017.
The Gender Gap Among Fancy Economists at the NBER Summer Institutes, Credit Slips, October 17 2017.

Research Highlights
​Working paper on the rate of return to capital in capital-scarce countries, September 2019.
Published paper on corporate debt in emerging markets, May 2019. Journal of International Economics
Working paper on the Puerto Rican debt crisis, December 2017. NBER WP No. 24018
Working paper on gender representation in economics, October 2017. NBER WP No. 23953
Working paper on capital scarcity in emerging markets, October 2017. NBER WP No. 23921
Published paper on the real effects of capital controls, September 2017. Journal of International Economics
Working paper on US monetary policy spillovers to emerging markets, June 2017. NBER WP No. 23474
Working paper on corporate debt in emerging markets, May 2017. NBER WP No. 23407

Recent Presentations 
AEA Annual Meeting, Atlanta (January 2019)
Brookings Institution (December 2018)
​George Washington University (November 2018)
​NBER IFM Meeting (Scheduled October 2018)
Duke Law School (September 2018)
Western Finance Association Meeting, Coronado CA (June 2018)
7th ITAM Finance Conference, Mexico City (May 2018) ​
Bank of Japan-Bank of Canada Workshop, Ottawa (March 2018)
AEA Annual Meeting, Philadelphia (January 2018) 
AFA Annual Meeting, Philadelphia (January 2018)
Santiago Finance Workshop, Santiago, Chile (December 2017)
Bank of Korea International Finance Forum, Seoul, South Korea (October 2017)
Second Annual Sovereign Debt Research and Management Conference, Graduate Institute, Geneva, Switzerland (October 2017)
Hong Kong Institute of Monetary Research (August 2017)
Western Finance Association Meeting, Whistler Canada (June 2017)
NBER IFM Spring Meeting, Cambridge (March 2017)
Central Bank of Argentina, Buenos Aires, Argentina (March 2017)
AEA Annual Meeting Chicago (January 2017)

Recent Discussions
ECB-FRB-FRBNY Global Research Forum on International Macroeconomics and Finance, Frankfurt, Germany, November 2018.
IMF Annual Research Conference, Washington DC, November 2018.
NBER Entrepreneurship Group Meeting, Cambridge MA, December 2017.
Central Bank Annual Research Conference, Ottawa Canada, July 2017.