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

• “Vertical Spillovers in Global Value Chains“, Forthcoming
  American Economic Association Papers and Proceedings 114 (May). 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

• "Misallocation in Indian Agriculture", 2024, with Marijn Bolhuis and Diego Restuccia. Working Paper (New version)
  Revise & Resubmit at AEJ Macro

• “Multi-product Markups”, 2023, with John Cairncross, Peter Morrow, and Scott Orr. Working Paper

• "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