Pulak Ghosh

Indian Institute of Management (IIMB), Bangalore

Bannerghatta Road

Bangalore, Karnataka 560076

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1.

Financial Inclusion and Alternate Credit Scoring: Role of Big Data and Machine Learning in Fintech

Indian School of Business
Number of pages: 85 Posted: 14 Jan 2020 Last Revised: 16 Apr 2021
Sumit Agarwal, Shashwat Alok, Pulak Ghosh and Sudip Gupta
National University of Singapore, Indian School of Business (ISB), Hyderabad, Indian Institute of Management (IIMB), Bangalore and Johns Hopkins University
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Fintech, Big data, Credit scores, Financial inclusion, Lending, Machine Learning, Mobile footprint, Prediction Counterfactual, Social footprint, Social capital

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Demonetization and Digitization

Number of pages: 57 Posted: 02 Jul 2018 Last Revised: 11 Nov 2022
Sumit Agarwal, Debarati Basu, Pulak Ghosh, Bhuvanesh Pareek and Jian Zhang
National University of Singapore, Shiv Nadar University, School of Management and Entrepreneurship, Indian Institute of Management (IIMB), Bangalore, Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Indore and The University of Hong Kong - Faculty of Business and Economics
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Digitization, Payment Method, Demonetization

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Banking the Unbanked: What do 280 Million New Bank Accounts Reveal about Financial Access?

Columbia Business School Research Paper No. 17-12, Georgetown McDonough School of Business Research Paper No. 2906523, HKUST Finance Symposium 2017, Indian School of Business WP 2906523
Number of pages: 72 Posted: 30 Jan 2017 Last Revised: 22 Sep 2023
Sumit Agarwal, Shashwat Alok, Pulak Ghosh, Soumya Ghosh, Tomasz Piskorski and Amit Seru
National University of Singapore, Indian School of Business (ISB), Hyderabad, Indian Institute of Management (IIMB), Bangalore, State Bank of India, Columbia University - Columbia Business School, Finance and Stanford University
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Banking, Financial Inclusion, Financial Literacy, Big Data, Financial Access, Savings, Spending, Debit Card, Consumer Finance, Household Finance

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FinTech Lending and Cashless Payments

Proceedings of Paris December 2021 Finance Meeting EUROFIDAI - ESSEC
Number of pages: 74 Posted: 12 Mar 2021 Last Revised: 11 Mar 2022
Pulak Ghosh, Boris Vallee and Yao Zeng
Indian Institute of Management (IIMB), Bangalore, Harvard Business School - Finance Unit and University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School
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FinTech, lending, payments, verifiability, data sharing, open banking.

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How Costly are Cultural Biases? Evidence from FinTech

Number of pages: 69 Posted: 08 Jan 2021 Last Revised: 28 Feb 2023
Francesco D'Acunto, Pulak Ghosh and Alberto G. Rossi
Georgetown University, Indian Institute of Management (IIMB), Bangalore and Georgetown University
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Taste-based Discrimination, Statistical Discrimination, Cultural Finance, Robo-Advising, Lending, Disintermediation, Cultural Economics

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Digital Payments and Consumption: Evidence from the 2016 Demonetization in India

Number of pages: 69 Posted: 28 Jul 2020 Last Revised: 14 Dec 2022
Sumit Agarwal, Pulak Ghosh, Jing Li and Tianyue Ruan
National University of Singapore, Indian Institute of Management (IIMB), Bangalore, Singapore Management University and National University of Singapore (NUS) - Department of Finance
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digital payments, financial technology, consumption, India, Demonetization

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Transient Customer Response to Data Breaches of Their Information

Number of pages: 91 Posted: 30 Nov 2020 Last Revised: 10 Nov 2023
Sumit Agarwal, Pulak Ghosh, Tianyue Ruan and Yunqi Zhang
National University of Singapore, Indian Institute of Management (IIMB), Bangalore, National University of Singapore (NUS) - Department of Finance and School of Finance, Nankai University
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data breach, convenience, privacy, digital economy

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Saving Tax Incentives and Consumption: Evidence from a Policy Experiment

Number of pages: 56 Posted: 17 Aug 2017 Last Revised: 29 Jun 2022
Sumit Agarwal, Souphala Chomsisengphet, Pulak Ghosh, Tianyue Ruan and Man Zhang
National University of Singapore, Government of the United States of America - Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), Indian Institute of Management (IIMB), Bangalore, National University of Singapore (NUS) - Department of Finance and University of Sydney
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Tax Policy, Consumption, Saving, Debit Cards, Household Finance, Banks, Discretionary Spending, Fiscal Policy

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Political Power-Sharing, Firm Entry, and Economic Growth: Evidence from Multiple Elected Representatives

Number of pages: 90 Posted: 23 Nov 2021 Last Revised: 01 Aug 2022
Harsha Dutta, Pulak Ghosh, Arkodipta Sarkar and Nishant Vats
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Indian Institute of Management (IIMB), Bangalore, National University of Singapore and Washington University in Saint Louis, John M. Olin Business School
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power-sharing, checks and balances, multiple politicians, firm entry, regulatory cost, cronyism, state efficiency

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Road to Stock Market Participation

Number of pages: 63 Posted: 02 Aug 2021
Sumit Agarwal, Meghana Ayyagari, Meghana Ayyagari, Yuxi Cheng and Pulak Ghosh
National University of Singapore, George Washington University - School of BusinessUniversity of Maryland - Robert H. Smith School of Business, University of Liverpool - Management School (ULMS) and Indian Institute of Management (IIMB), Bangalore
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Trading behavior, Financial Inclusion, Information, Banks, Infrastructure

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Terrorist Attacks and Strategic Household Consumption

Number of pages: 54 Posted: 09 Mar 2021 Last Revised: 03 Dec 2023
Sumit Agarwal, Pulak Ghosh, Weiqiang Tan, Weiqiang Tan and Xin Zou
National University of Singapore, Indian Institute of Management (IIMB), Bangalore, Education University of Hong KongThe Education University of Hong Kong and Hong Kong Baptist University (HKBU)
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Terrorist attacks, household consumption, consumption shifting, economic uncertainty, precautionary liquidity demand, credit cards, bank cards, household finance

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Foregone Consumption and Return-Chasing Investments

Number of pages: 52 Posted: 02 Aug 2019 Last Revised: 16 Mar 2020
Sumit Agarwal, Ben Charoenwong and Pulak Ghosh
National University of Singapore, National University of Singapore - Department of Finance and Indian Institute of Management (IIMB), Bangalore
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Consumption, Loss Aversion, Return Chasing, Extrapolative Expectations, Household Portfolio Allocation

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Inflation Expectation and Cryptocurrency Investment

Number of pages: 47 Posted: 24 Aug 2023 Last Revised: 27 Nov 2023
Lin William Cong, Pulak Ghosh, Jiasun Li and Qihong Ruan
Cornell University - Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management, Indian Institute of Management (IIMB), Bangalore, George Mason University - Department of Finance and Cornell University, Ithaca, New York
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Inflation Hedge, Expectations, Household Survey, Cryptocurrency, FinTech

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Estimation of Residual Equity in Hierarchical Branding Structures: A Nonparametric Approach on Aggregate Beer Category Data

Indian School of Business WP ISB-WP/101/2010
Number of pages: 51 Posted: 01 Jul 2010
Sudhir Voleti, Paul E Nelson and Pulak Ghosh
Indian School of Business (ISB), Hyderabad, University of Rochester and Indian Institute of Management (IIMB), Bangalore
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Brand Equity, Brand Valuation, Dirichlet process priors, Nonparametric Bayesian Statistics

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Consumption and Portfolio Rebalancing Response of Households to Monetary Policy

Number of pages: 62 Posted: 22 May 2020 Last Revised: 30 Mar 2022
Sumit Agarwal, Yeow Hwee Chua, Pulak Ghosh and Changcheng Song
National University of Singapore, Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Indian Institute of Management (IIMB), Bangalore and Singapore Management University
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Monetary Policy, Consumption, Portfolio Rebalancing, Household Finance, Reach for Yield, Reach for Income

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How Costly are Cultural Biases? Evidence from FinTech

LawFin Working Paper No. 34
Number of pages: 70 Posted: 27 Jun 2022 Last Revised: 28 Feb 2023
Francesco D'Acunto, Pulak Ghosh and Alberto G. Rossi
Georgetown University, Indian Institute of Management (IIMB), Bangalore and Georgetown University
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Trust, Social Capital, Discrimination, Cultural Norms, Robo-Advising, Biased Beliefs, Inter-ethnic Conflict, Social Conditioning, Religion, Caste

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Do Indian Business Group Owned Mutual Funds Maximize Value for Their Investors?

IIM Bangalore Research Paper No. 463
Number of pages: 39 Posted: 29 May 2014
Pulak Ghosh, Jayant R. Kale and Venkatesh Panchapagesan
Indian Institute of Management (IIMB), Bangalore, Georgia State University and Indian Institute of Management (IIMB), Bangalore
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Indian Business Group, Mutual Funds, Investors

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Ask Your Doctor Whether This Product Is Right for You: A Bayesian Joint Model for Patient Drug Requests and Physician Prescriptions

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series A, Forthcoming, IIM Bangalore Research Paper No. 526
Number of pages: 46 Posted: 09 Nov 2016 Last Revised: 07 Apr 2020
Bhuvanesh Pareek, Qiang Liu and Pulak Ghosh
Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Indore, Purdue University - Krannert School of Management and Indian Institute of Management (IIMB), Bangalore
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Zero-inflated, Bayesian joint model, Health care, DTCA, Advertising, Doctor patient interaction

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Consumption Response to a Natural Disaster: Evidence of Price and Income Shocks from Chennai Flood

Number of pages: 66 Posted: 10 Mar 2021
Sumit Agarwal, Pulak Ghosh and Huanhuan Zheng
National University of Singapore, Indian Institute of Management (IIMB), Bangalore and National University of Singapore
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natural disaster, income shocks, price shocks, online shopping, household finance

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Inflation Expectations of Households and Portfolio Rebalancing: Evidence from Inflation Targeting in India

Number of pages: 42 Posted: 09 Apr 2022 Last Revised: 27 Sep 2023
Sumit Agarwal, Yeow Hwee Chua, Pulak Ghosh and Changcheng Song
National University of Singapore, Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Indian Institute of Management (IIMB), Bangalore and Singapore Management University
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Inflation Expectations, Inflation Targeting, Household Finance, Household Balance Sheet, Consumption, Savings, Reach for Yield

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Simultaneous Bayesian Estimation of Multiple Quantiles with an Extension to Hierarchical Models

IIM Bangalore Research Paper No. 359
Number of pages: 41 Posted: 27 Jul 2012
Karthik Sriram, R. Ramamoorthi and Pulak Ghosh
Indian Institute of Management (IIMB), Bangalore, Michigan State University and Indian Institute of Management (IIMB), Bangalore
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Asymmetric Laplace distribution, Bayesian quantile regression, Crossing

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Firm Integration and Supply Chains

Number of pages: 46 Posted: 10 Jan 2020
Shresth Garg, Pulak Ghosh and Brandon Tan
Harvard University, Department of Economics, Indian Institute of Management (IIMB), Bangalore and Harvard University, Department of Economics
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India, e-way, GST, vertical integration, development, trade

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A Bayesian Semiparametric Quantile Regression Model for Longitudinal Data with Application to Insurance Company Costs

IIM Bangalore Research Paper No. 355
Number of pages: 38 Posted: 26 Jul 2012
Karthik Sriram, Peng Shi and Pulak Ghosh
Indian Institute of Management (IIMB), Bangalore, University of Wisconsin - Madison and Indian Institute of Management (IIMB), Bangalore
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Bayesian quantile regression, Asymmetric Laplace distribution, Singleindex, Dirichlet process, Spline, Clustering, Longitudinal data

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Political Partisanship and the Transmission of Fiscal Policy

Number of pages: 50 Posted: 05 May 2021
Francesco D'Acunto, Pulak Ghosh and Alberto G. Rossi
Georgetown University, Indian Institute of Management (IIMB), Bangalore and Georgetown University
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Heterogeneous Beliefs, Government Spending, Loans, Political Beliefs, Fiscal Policy, Government Programs, Small Businesses, Media Economics, Information Economics.

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Safety Nets, Credit, and Investment: Evidence from a Guaranteed Income Program

Number of pages: 149 Posted: 21 Nov 2022 Last Revised: 02 Mar 2023
Pulak Ghosh and Nishant Vats
Indian Institute of Management (IIMB), Bangalore and Washington University in Saint Louis, John M. Olin Business School
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guaranteed income, universal basic income, credit demand, production, capital

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Does Death Teach Us Wisdom? Evidence from Trading during the COVID-19 Pandemic in India

Number of pages: 60 Posted: 04 Jan 2022
Pulak Ghosh, Jayanta Kumar Seal, Hong Zhang and Jian Zhang
Indian Institute of Management (IIMB), Bangalore, Indian Institute of Foreign Trade, Singapore Management University, LKCSB and The University of Hong Kong - Faculty of Business and Economics
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Death, Disposition Effect, Narrow Framing, COVID-19, Pandemic

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Estimating Healthcare Demand for an Aging Population: A Flexible and Robust Bayesian Joint Model

IIM Bangalore Research Paper No. 357
Number of pages: 33 Posted: 27 Jul 2012
Arnab Mukherji, Pulak Ghosh and Satrajit Roychowdhury
Indian Institute of Management Bangalore, Indian Institute of Management (IIMB), Bangalore and affiliation not provided to SSRN
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Bayesian Methods, Joint Model, Healthcare Demand, Aging, Splines

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Financial Hardship and Saving Behaviour: Bayesian Analysis of British Panel Data

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10910
Number of pages: 42 Posted: 31 Aug 2017
Sarah Brown, Pulak Ghosh, Bhuvanesh Pareek and Karl Taylor
University of Sheffield - Department of Economics, Indian Institute of Management (IIMB), Bangalore, Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Indore and University of Sheffield - Department of Economics
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Bayesian modelling, financial hardship, saving, zero inflation

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Posterior Consistency of Bayesian Quantile Regression Under a Mis-Specified Likelihood Based on Asymmetric Laplace Density

IIM Bangalore Research Paper No. 340
Number of pages: 29 Posted: 06 Aug 2012
Karthik Sriram, R. Ramamoorthi and Pulak Ghosh
Indian Institute of Management (IIMB), Bangalore, Michigan State University and Indian Institute of Management (IIMB), Bangalore
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consistency, asymmetric laplace density, Kullback-Leibler divergence, quantile regression, posterior distribution

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Assessing Treatments Effects in Multi-Center Clinical Trials with Application To Scleroderma Lung Study: A Semiparametric Bayesian Approach

IIM Bangalore Research Paper No. 291
Number of pages: 38 Posted: 06 Aug 2012
Man-Wai Ho, Pulak Ghosh, Robert Elasoff and Ram Tiwari
National University of Singapore (NUS), Indian Institute of Management (IIMB), Bangalore, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and Government of the United States of America - Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
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treatment effect, nested Dirichlet process, multi-center, Scleroderma lung study, 2

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Collateral Shock and Access to Credit: Evidence from Loan Application Data

Number of pages: 69 Posted: 04 Aug 2022 Last Revised: 01 Sep 2022
Sumit Agarwal, Pulak Ghosh, Weida Kang, you li and Jian Zhang
National University of Singapore, Indian Institute of Management (IIMB), Bangalore, Renmin University of China, Macau University of Science and Technology - School of Business and The University of Hong Kong - Faculty of Business and Economics
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Credit Supply, Collateral, Consumer Credit, Real Estate

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Household Finances and Social Interaction: Bayesian Analysis of Household Panel Data

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8301
Number of pages: 40 Posted: 12 Jul 2014
Sarah Brown, Pulak Ghosh and Karl Taylor
University of Sheffield - Department of Economics, Indian Institute of Management (IIMB), Bangalore and University of Sheffield - Department of Economics
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assets, debt, household finances, social interaction

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An Inter-Product Competition Model Incorporating Branding Hierarchy and Product Similarities Using Store Level Data

Indian School of Business
Posted: 19 Jan 2014 Last Revised: 28 Apr 2020
Sudhir Voleti, Praveen K. Kopalle and Pulak Ghosh
Indian School of Business (ISB), Hyderabad, Dartmouth College - Tuck School of Business and Indian Institute of Management (IIMB), Bangalore

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Competition Modeling, Bayesian Semiparametrics, Nested Dirichlet Process

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Economic Policy Uncertainty and Economic Growth in India

IIM Bangalore Research Paper No. 407
Posted: 09 Apr 2013 Last Revised: 02 Oct 2017
Sanjai Bhagat, Pulak Ghosh and Srinivasan Rangan
University of Colorado at Boulder - Department of Finance, Indian Institute of Management (IIMB), Bangalore and Indian Institute of Management (IIMB), Bangalore

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economic policy uncertainty, India economic growth