I am an Assistant Professor at UBC Sauder School of Business. My research interests are at the intersection of International Trade, Growth, and Development.

You can find my CV here.
Email: s.rachapalli@sauder.ubc.ca
Office: Henry Angus 268

RESEARCH

Publications

• "Misallocation in Indian Agriculture", with Marijn Bolhuis and Diego Restuccia.
  Forthcoming at American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics Working Paper Version

• “Vertical Spillovers in Global Value Chains“
  American Economic Association Papers and Proceedings 114 (May), 2024. Working Paper Online Appendix

• "Trade and Diffusion of Embodied Technology: An Empirical Analysis", with Stephen Ayerst, Faisal Ibrahim, and Gaelan MacKenzie.
  Journal of Monetary Economics, 2023. Published Version Working Paper Version

WORKING PAPERS

• “Identifying Firm vs. Product Markups Using Production Data: Micro Estimates and Aggregate Implications”, 2024, with John Cairncross, Peter Morrow, and Scott Orr.
  Working Paper (New Version) Previously circulated as “Multi-Product Markups”

• "Learning Between Buyers and Sellers Along the Global Value Chain", 2021. Working Paper
  Recipient of the 2021 World Trade Organization Young Economist Essay Award

WORK IN PROGRESS

• "Traded Embodied Technology, Firm Dynamics, and Economic Growth", with Stephen Ayerst, Faisal Ibrahim, and Gaelan MacKenzie. (Email me for preliminary draft)

PRE-DOCTORAL WORK

• "Stigma of sexual violence and women’s decision to work.", 2018, Tanika Chakraborty, Anirban Mukherjee, and Sarani Saha. World Development, 103, pp 226-239. Published Version

• "Evolutionarily Stable Conjectures and Social Optimality in Oligopolies", 2013, with Praveen Kulshreshtha. Theoretical Economics Letters. Published Version

resting projects

• "Local Labor Markets and Trade Policy Preferences", 2017. Working Paper