Kala Krishna

Kala Krishna (born November 26, 1956) is an Indian-American economist, Professor of Economics at Pennsylvania State University, a NBER Research Associate and a CESifo Research Network Fellow. Her research is in the areas of international trade, economics of education, development economics and industrial organization.

Biography Krishna was born on November 26, 1956, in New Delhi, India. Kala Krishna received her Ph.D. in economics from Princeton University in 1984.

Krishna, K., Lychagin, S., & Frisancho, V. (2018). Retaking in High Stakes Exams: Is Less More?. International Economic Review, 59(2), 449–477. Krishna, K., & Sheveleva, Y. (2017). Wheat or strawberries? Intermediated trade with limited contracting. American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, 9(3), 28–62. Kee, H. L., & Krishna, K. (2008). Firm-level heterogeneous productivity and demand shocks: Evidence from Bangladesh. The American Economic Review, 98(2), 457–62. Imai, S., & Krishna, K. (2004). Employment, deterrence, and crime in a dynamic model. International Economic Review, 45(3), 845–872. Krishna, K., & Winston, T. (2003). If at First You Don't Succeed...: Profits, Prices, and Market Structure in a Model of Quality with Unknowable Consumer Heterogeneity. International Economic Review, 44(2), 573–597. Krishna, K., & Tan, L. H. (1999). Transferable licenses versus nontransferable licenses: what is the difference?. International Economic Review, 40(3), 785–800. Krishna, K. (1993). Auctions with endogenous valuations: the persistence of monopoly revisited. The American Economic Review, 147–160. Krishna, K. (1990). The Case of the Vanishing Revenues: Auction Quotas with Monopoly. The American Economic Review, 80(4), 828–836. According to Google Scholar, this article has been cited 578 times. ] Krishna, K. (1989). Trade restrictions as facilitating practices. Journal of International Economics, 26(3–4), 251–270.

Books Krishna, K., & Tan, L. H. (1998). Rags and riches: Implementing apparel quotas under the multi-fibre arrangement. University of Michigan Press.