BIDISHA LAHIRI

Department of Economics
Aso Prof

350 BUSINESS BUILDING
STILLWATER, OK 74078
Phone: 405-744-7530

bidisha.lahiri@okstate.edu

Education

• Ph D, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, International Trade and Development Economics, 2007
• MS, Indian Statistical Institute, Quantitative Economics, 1998
• BS, Calcutta University, Economics, 1996

Publications

• Bidisha Lahiri, William A. Darity, and . "Global North-South reparations: Demand-side and Supply-side Policies with a Dynamic View of International Trade and Finance". Development and Change (Forthcoming).
• Chandra Putra, Mahmut Yasar, Ankita Aggarwal, Bidisha Lahiri, and Roderick M. Rejesus. (2024). "International Linkages and Female Share of Employment: Plant-Level Evidence from a Developing Country". The Journal of International Trade & Economic Development.
• Qinghe (Sunny) Su and Bidisha Lahiri. (2023). "Does the Belt and Road Initiative boost Chinese Automobile Exports? A Staggered Adoption Approach". Applied Economics. ((Forthcoming)),
• Bidisha Lahiri and Richard Daramola. (2023). "Effects of Credit and Labor Constraints on Microenterprises and the Unintended Impact of Changes in Household Endowments: Use of Threshold Estimation to detect Heterogeneity". Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance.
• Bidisha Lahiri and Haider Ali. (2022). "Inspections, Informal Payments and Tax Payments by Firms". Finance Research Letters. (46),
• Bidisha Lahiri and Anurag Deb. (2022). "Effect of the Indian De-monetization Policy on its Exports". Empirical Economics. (62), 6,
• Bidisha Lahiri and Luyi Han. (2020). "Effect of Product Obsolescence on Wages: Role of International Trade and Skill Levels". Economics Letters.
• Bidisha Lahiri. (2018). "Racial Earnings Disparities with Endogenous Labor Market Participation". Journal of Economics, Race, and Policy.
• Bidisha Lahiri. (2017). "Dissimilar Relations Between Income and Environmental Quality for Open Economies in a Growth Model". Eastern Economic Journal. (43), 1, 104-127.
• Bidisha Lahiri. (2015). "Role of labor intensity interaction in the relation between abatement expenditure and production". Economics Bulletin. (35), 1, 407-413.
• Naneida Lazarte-Alcala, Lee Adkins, Bidisha Lahiri, and Andreas Savvides. (2014). "Remittances and Income Diversification Strategy for Bolivia's Rural Sector". Applied Economics. (46), 8, 848–858.
• Atef Al Rashidi and Bidisha Lahiri. (2013). "The effect of exchange rate volatility on trade: correcting for selection bias and asymmetric trade flows". Applied Economics Letters. (20), 11, 1121-1126.
• Bidisha Lahiri, Xi Tian, and . (2013). "Structural Break between Small and Large Firms’ Behavior in Trade Credit and Bank Credit: Evidence from India's Retail Sector". Applied Economics Letters. (20), 2, 199-202.
• Bidisha Lahiri and Feroz Khan Masjidi. (2012). "Landlocked Countries: A Way to Integrate with Coastal Economies". Journal of Economic Integration. (27), 4,
• Atef Al Rashidi and Bidisha Lahiri. (2012). "Trade-Weighted Exchange Rate Indices: Explaining Industrial Production". ”. Journal of International and Global Economic Studies. (5), 2, 24-31.
• Bidisha Lahiri. (2012). "Input Intensity: A Missing Link between Production, Trade Patterns, and Environmental Standards". Review of International Economics. (20), 1, 108-118.
• Bidisha Lahiri. (2011). "The Welfare Synergy of Bundling International Environmental Agreements with International Trade Treaties". Review of International Economics. (19), 5, 909-921.
• A. Blackman, Bidisha Lahiri, and W. Pizer. (2010). "Voluntary environmental regulation in developing countries: Mexico’s Clean Industry Program". Journal of Environmental Economics and Management. (60), 3, 182-192.
• W. Darity, Bidisha Lahiri, and D. Frank. (2010). "Reparations for African-Americans as a Transfer Problem: A Cautionary Tale". Review of Development Economics. (14), 2, 248-261.
• Bidisha Lahiri. (2008). ""Understanding the Relation Between Income and Environment" in International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences". New York: MacMillan.

Presentations

• “Trade liberalization as a vehicle for realizing intergenerational upward economic mobility”
  Southern Economic Association’s Annual Conference
  New Orleans, LA - November 2023
• Horizontal and Vertical Foreign Direct Investment Linkages, Absorptive Capacity, and Domestic Investment: Evidence from Indonesian Plant-Level Data”
  Missouri Valley Economic Association’s Annual Conference
  Kansas City, MO - October 2023
• “International Linkages and Female Share of Total Employment: Evidence from Indonesian Plant-Level Panel Data”
  Eastern Economic Association’s Annual Conference
  NYC, NY - February 2023
• “Does the Belt and Road Initiative boost Chinese Automobile Exports? A Staggered Adoption Approach”
  Southern Economic Association’s Annual Economic Conference
  Ft. Lauderdale, FL - November 2022
• Horizontal and Vertical Foreign Direct Investment Linkages, Absorptive Capacity, and Domestic Investment: Evidence from Indonesian Plant-Level Data
  Midwest Economic Conference
  Minnesota, MN - March 2022
• Demarcating the Effects of Corruption on Firms in the Short and Long Horizons
  Annual Conference of the Sustainability and Development Initiative at the University of Michigan
  Virtual Platform - January 2022
• Inspections, Informal Payments and Tax Payments by Firms
  Missouri Valley Economic Conference
  Missouri Valley Economic Association
  Initially Kansas City (MO), moved to Virtual - October 2021
• Low level equilibrium trap for women
  Paper accepted at 2020 Western Economic Association International 95th Annual Conference (but cancelled due to COVID)
  CSWEP
  June 2020
• Impact of the Indian “De-monetization” policy: A Synthetic Control Approach
  Missouri Valley Economic Association
  Kansas City, MO - October 2019
• Intertemporal preference as a candidate for explaining differences in gender specific outcomes
  Annual Conference of Southern Economic Association
  Washington D.C. - November 2018
• “Entrepreneurial Effect of Employment program in India”
  Annual Conference of Eastern Economic Association
  Boston, MA - March 2018
• Racial Income Disparity in the USA with Endogenous Labor Market Participation
  Missouri Valley Economic Association Annual Conference
  Kansas City, MO - October 2017
• “Heterogenous Effect of Remittances across Households of Different Wealth Levels”
  Annual Conference of Missouri Valley Economic Association
  St. Louis, MO - October 2016
• Access to imported inputs and differential regional growth in India
  Missouri Valley Economic Association, Annual Conference
  Kansas City, MO - October 2015
• Role of Remittances on International Development
  Missouri Valley Economic Association's Annual Conference
  St. Louis, MO - October 2014
• Effect of Environmental Tax Policy on Steady State Production
  the Southern Economic Association’s Annual Conference
  Tampa, FL - November 2013
• Pollution Haven: The Role of Interaction of Labor Intensity and Pollution Intensity
  Missouri Valley Economic Association’s Annual Conference
  Kansas City, MO - October 2013
• The elusive effect of exchange rate volatility on trade in gravity models
  Missouri Valley Economic Association Annual Conference
  Memphis, TN - October 2012
• International Trade in a Surplus Economy
  Southern Economic Association Annual Conference
  Washington, D.C. - November 2011
• Economic Constraints of Land-Locked Economies: Looking forward to potential solutions
  Missouri Valley Economic Association Annual Conference
  Kansas City, MO - October 2011
• Use of trade credit and bank credit by small and large firms
  Southern Economic Association Annual Conference
  Atlanta, Georgia - November 22 2010
• Empirical Analysis of the Use of Supplier Credit and Bank Credit
  Missouri Valley Economic Association Annual Conference
  Kansas City MO - October 23 2009
• Is There a Synergy in Linking Trade and Environmental Agreements?
  Southern Economic Association Annual Conference
  Washington DC - November 2008
• Factor Intensities: A Missing Link Between Production and Environmental Standards
  Southern Economic Association Annual Conference
  New Orleans LA - November 2007
• Reparations for African Americans as a Reparations Problem
  Southern Economic Association Annual Conference
  New Orleans LA - November 2007
• An Econometric Evaluation of Mexico's Voluntary Environmental Program: Clean-Industry Using Survival Analysis
  Southern Economic Association Annual Conference
  Charleston SC - November 2006
• Environmental Kuznets Curve in the Presence of International Trade and Capital Mobility
  Southern Economic Association Annual Conference
  Charleston SC - November 2006