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Chetan Ghate
Researcher at Indian Statistical Institute
Publications - 52
Citations - 547
Chetan Ghate is an academic researcher from Indian Statistical Institute. The author has contributed to research in topics: Endogenous growth theory & Business cycle. The author has an hindex of 12, co-authored 50 publications receiving 498 citations. Previous affiliations of Chetan Ghate include Colorado College & German Institute for Economic Research.
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Growth of Government and the Politics of Fiscal Policy
Chetan Ghate,Paul J. Zak +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a general equilibrium growth model in which politicians chose government spending to maximize support by their constituents and show that the policies chosen by politicians are Pareto suboptimal and cause endogenous cycles in output.
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The "V-Factor": Distribution, Timing and Correlates of the Great Indian Growth Turnaround
Chetan Ghate,Stephen Wright +1 more
TL;DR: This paper showed that a strikingly similar V-shaped pattern is visible not just in aggregate output figures, but also as the primary determinant of long-term movements in the cross-sectional distribution within the All-India total, at both sectoral and state output levels.
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Remoteness, Urbanization, and India's Unbalanced Growth
TL;DR: This article explored the determinants of India's unbalanced growth at the district level and found that there is absolute divergence across districts but conditional convergence once they allow for district characteristics, particularly urbanization and the distance from a major urban agglomeration.
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Has India Emerged? Business Cycle Stylized Facts from a Transitioning Economy
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a comprehensive set of stylized facts for business cycles in India from 1950 to 2010, and report evidence that these changes are driven primarily by structural changes caused by market oriented reforms, and not by good luck.