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Shantayanan Devarajan

Shantayanan Devarajan

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Economics and Finance

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52
Citations
15915
World Ranking
1238
National Ranking
747

Overview

Shantayanan Devarajan is affiliated with Georgetown University in the United States and specializes in the fields of Economics, Econometrics, and Finance. Their work covers several subfields, including Economics and Econometrics, General Economics, Econometrics and Finance, Finance, Political Science and International Relations, and Building and Construction. The research topics they address are diverse, focusing particularly on Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth, Global Trade and Economics, Economic Growth and Productivity, Natural Resources and Economic Development, Mining and Resource Management, Global Financial Crisis and Policies, and Fiscal Policies and Political Economy.

Devarajan has published several papers, including:

  • Taxation, accountability, and cash transfers: Breaking the resource curse (2023), Journal of Public Economics
  • Traders' dilemma: Developing countries' response to trade wars (2020), World Economy
  • How Carbon Tariffs and Climate Clubs Can Slow Global Warming (2022), SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Debt, Growth and Stability in Africa: Speculative Calculations and Policy Responses (2021), Journal of African Economies
  • Has Globalization Gone Too Far-or Not Far Enough? (2020), Georgetown Journal of International Affairs

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Devarajan include:

  • Delfin S. Go (5 publications)
  • Sherman Robinson (4 publications)
  • Karen Thierfelder (3 publications)
  • Quy-Toan Do (2 publications)
  • Csilla Lakatos (1 publication)

Their work appears predominantly in venues such as the SSRN Electronic Journal, Journal of Public Economics, World Economy, Journal of African Economies, and Georgetown Journal of International Affairs.

In addition to articles, Devarajan has contributed to book publications with the World Bank, Washington, DC eBooks. Titles include:

  • Trade Elasticities in Aggregate Models: Estimates for 191 Countries (2023)
  • Taxation, Accountability, and Cash Transfers: Breaking the Resource Curse (2021)

Best Publications

  • The composition of public expenditure and economic growth

    Shantayanan Devarajan;Vinaya Swaroop;Heng-fu Zou

  • World Development Report 2004 : making services work for poor people

    Lant Pritchett;Ritva Reinikka;Shantayanan Devarajan;Deon Filmer

  • Aid and Reform in Africa : Lessons from Ten Case Studies

    Shantayanan Devarajan;David R. Dollar;Torgny Holmgren

  • The Long-Run Economic Costs of aids: A Model with an Application to South Africa

    Clive Bell;Shantayanan Devarajan;Hans Gersbach

  • Making Services Work for Poor People

    Shantayanan Devarajan;Ritva Reinikka

  • Aid and Reform in Africa: Lessons from Ten Case Studies

    Shantayanan Devarajan;David Dollar;Torgny Holmgren

  • Policy Lessons from Two-Sector Models

    Shantayanan Devarajan;Jeffrey Lewis;Sherman Robinson

  • Hotelling's "Economics of Exhaustible Resources": Fifty Years Later

    Shantayanan Devarajan;Anthony C Fisher

  • Africa's Statistical Tragedy

    Shantayanan Devarajan

  • Applied methods for trade policy analysis : a handbook

    Joseph F. Francois;Kenneth A. Reinert

  • The ‘Dutch’ disease in a developing country: Oil reserves in Cameroon☆

    Nancy C. Benjamin;Shantayanan Devarajan;Robert J. Weiner

  • Decentralization and service delivery

    Junaid Ahmad;Shantayanan Devarajan;Stuti Khemani;Shekhar Shah

  • The Long-run Economic Costs of AIDS: Theory and an Application to South Africa ⁄

    Clive Bell;Shantayanan Devarajan;Hans Gersbach

  • External Shocks, Purchasing Power Parity, and the Equilibrium Real Exchange Rate

    Shantayanan Devarajan;Jeffrey D. Lewis;Sherman Robinson

  • The Simplest Dynamic General-Equilibrium Model of an Open Economy

    Shantayanan Devarajan;Delfin S. Go

  • From Stylized to Applied Models: Building Multisector CGE Models for Policy Analysis

    Shantayanan Devarajan;Jeffrey Lewis;S. Robinson

  • The Economic Impact of AIDS in an African Country: Simulations with a Computable General Equilibrium Model of Cameroon

    Gerard Kambou;Shantayanan Devarajan;Shantayanan Devarajan;Mead Over

  • Goals for Development: History, Prospects, and Costs

    Shantayanan Devarajan;Margaret Miller;Eric V. Swanson

  • Adjustment with a Fixed Exchange Rate: Cameroon, Côte d'Ivoire, and Senegal

    Shantayanan Devarajan;Jaime de Melo

  • Adjustment with a Fixed Exchange Rate: Cameroon, Côte d'Ivoire, and Senegal

    Shantayanan Devarajan;Jaime de Melo

  • Pro-Competitive Effects of Trade Reform: Results from a CGE Model of Cameroon

    Shantayanan Devarajan;Dani Rodrik

  • Trade Liberalization in Developing Countries: Do Imperfect Competition and Scale Economies Matter?

    Shantayanan Devarajan;Dani Rodrik

  • Exploration and Scarcity

    Shantayanan Devarajan;Anthony C. Fisher

  • Low Investment Is Not the Constraint on African Development

    Shantayanan Devarajan;William R. Easterly;Howard Pack

Frequent Co-Authors

Sherman Robinson
Sherman Robinson International Food Policy Research Institute
Dani Rodrik
Dani Rodrik Harvard University
Jeffrey S. Hammer
Jeffrey S. Hammer Princeton University
Hans Gersbach
Hans Gersbach ETH Zurich
Heng-fu Zou
Heng-fu Zou Central University of Finance and Economics
William Easterly
William Easterly New York University
Howard Pack
Howard Pack University of Pennsylvania
Deon Filmer
Deon Filmer World Bank
Lant Pritchett
Lant Pritchett London School of Economics and Political Science
Ravi Kanbur
Ravi Kanbur Cornell University

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