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.
  American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics 18.2 (2026) [Working Paper Version] [Media Coverage: VoxDev, The Policy Edge]

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

• "Trade and Diffusion of Embodied Technology: An Empirical Analysis", with Stephen Ayerst, Faisal Ibrahim, and Gaelan MacKenzie.
  Journal of Monetary Economics, 2023. [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.
  Revise & Resubmit at American Economic Journal: Microeconomics [Working Paper] [Online Appendix] 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

• “Supply-side Misallocation Within and Across Farms: Evidence from Italy”, with Michele Battisti, Valentino Dardaroni, and Scott Orr

• "Economic Growth and Income Gaps in a Connected World", with Stephen Ayerst and Gaelan MacKenzie

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]