Publications

“Financial Contagion on the International Trade Network,” (with Javier Reyes). Forthcoming in Economic Inquiry.

“Legal Systems, Information Asymmetry and Firm Boundaries: Cross-Border Choices to Diversify Through Mergers, Joint Ventures, or Strategic Alliances,” (with Tomas Jandik). Forthcoming in Journal of International Business Studies.

"Economic Progress, Social Regress?" (with Amy Farmer), Journal of Public Economic Theory, 9(3), August 2007.

“The Architecture of Globalization: A Network Approach to International Economic Integration,” (with Javier Reyes), Journal of International Business Studies, 38(4), July 2007.

“Trade Structure and Economic Growth,” (with Fabio Mendez and Javier Reyes), Journal of International Trade and Economic Development, 16(2), June 2007.

"Connected Lending: Thailand Before the Financial Crisis," (Abstract) (co-authored with Chutatong Charumilind and Yupana Wiwatanakantang), Journal of Business, 79(1), January 2006.

"Business Groups, the Financial Market and Modernization," (Abstract) Economics of Transition. 11(4), November 2003.

"The City as a Giant Component: A Random Graph Approach to Zipf's Law," (Abstract), Applied Economics Letters. 10(11), 2003. 

"Contractual Governance, Business Groups and Transition," (Abstract) Economics of Transition. 10(2), June 2002. 

"Financially Interlinked Business Groups," (Abstract) (with Maitreesh Ghatak), Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, Vol. 10, No. 4. Winter 2001. 

"Endogenous Business Networks," (Abstract) Journal of Law, Economics and Organization, Volume 15, Issue 3. October 1999.

"Minimum Advertised Price," (Abstract) Journal of Economics and Management Strategy.  Vol. 7, No. 4. Winter 1998.

“Guanxi versus the Market: Ethics and Efficiency’’ (with Steve Lovett and Lee Simmons), Journal of International Business Studies. Volume 30, No. 2, Summer 1999.

"Business Networks in Transition Economies: Norms, Contracts and Legal Institutions," (Abstract) in Assessing the Value of Law in the Economic Transition From Socialism, edited by Peter Murrell.  University of Michigan Press 2001.

“Diversified Business Groups in Emerging Economies,” (Downloadable PDF file) (with Maitreesh Ghatak). Money and Finance, Oct.-Dec. 2000.

Working Papers

"Diversification and Tunneling: Evidence from Indian Business Groups," (Downloadable PDF file) (with Jayati Sarkar). University of Arkansas, August 2008.

“Diversification, Propping and Monitoring: Business Groups, Firm Performance and the Indian Economic Transition,” (Downloadable PDF file) (with Jayati Sarkar). University of Arkansas, August 2005.

"Social Embeddedness and Economic Governance: A Small World Approach," (Downloadable PDF file) Mimeo, University of Arkansas, Version January 2003.

Work in Progress

· In the Right Space at the Right Time: Growth Acceleration, Product Space and the “Small World.” (with Javier Reyes, Josh McGee & Stuart Shirell).

· Entrepreneurship, Reputation and Business Groups (with Nisvan Erkal).

· Individual versus Group Identity (with Nisvan Erkal).

· Interdependence and Synchronicity: A Random Walk Approach (with Javier Reyes and Amat Adarov).

Modified August 11, 2008.
©Raja Kali 2008.