About
Abhishek is a lecturer at the University of Southampton Business School. He is currently teaching International Banking to undergraduate and postgraduate students. His research spans structural macroeconomics, macro-finance, and applied microeconomics. He combines economic theory with rigorous empirical methods to study inflation dynamics, monetary policy transmission, fiscal spillovers, risk premia, and firm-level market power. A central theme of his work is identifying causal effects using structural approaches applied to both macroeconomic and micro-level data. Through this integration of theory and evidence, his research seeks to generate policy-relevant insights grounded in careful analytical reasoning and robust empirical analysis.
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Research
Research interests
- State-dependent transmission and international spillovers of fiscal and monetary shocks
- Role of government size, primary deficits, and debt maturity structure in determining risk premia and inflation dynamics
- Macroeconomic and distributional consequences of exchange rate movements.
- Firm market power, financial frictions, and misallocation
- Banking crises
Current research
Abhishek Kumar’s current research lies at the intersection of macroeconomics, macro-finance, and applied microeconometrics, focusing on how global and policy shocks shape firm- and country-level outcomes. His work examines the state-dependent transmission and international spillovers of fiscal and monetary shocks, countries’ resilience to global inflationary pressures, and the role of government size, primary deficits, and debt maturity structure in determining risk premia and inflation dynamics. He also studies the macroeconomic and distributional consequences of exchange rate movements.
At the micro level, he investigates firm market power, uncertainty, and financial frictions using plant-level and cross-country data. His research combines structural macroeconomic and microeconomic frameworks with rigorous empirical methods to generate policy-relevant insights grounded in careful analytical reasoning.
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Prior to his PhD, he worked as an Assistant Professor at the University of Delhi for more than 4 Years where he taught, mathematics for business, statistics, econometrics and economic growth.
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Biography
Abhishek worked as an associate fellow at CSEP (Brookings India) from 2021 to 2022 and was a visiting researcher at the University College London (UCL) from 2019 to 2020. He is currently a non-resident associate fellow at CSEP.
In the past, he has worked as a consultant for the Queen Mary Global Policy Institute, the Asian Development Bank (Manila), and UNU-WIDER. He also worked as a project associate at the National Institute of Public Finance and Policy (NIPFP), University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, USA, and the National Health Service, UK. Abhishek finished his PhD at the Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research (IGIDR), Mumbai, in 2022. He has M.Phil. degrees from IGIDR and the University of Delhi and postgraduate and bachelor’s degrees from the University of Delhi.
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