Faculty Details
P Ketan Kumar Reddy
Designation
Asst. Professor
Ph.D. Economics, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, M.Sc (5 year Integrated) Economics, Pondicherry University
Economics & Public Policy
Contact Information
preddy@iimraipur.ac.in
I obtained my Ph.D. from the Indian Institute of Technology Madras, and Post-Doctoral Research at King's College London. I am the recipient of the Institute Research Award from IIT Madras and the recipient of the First Vice-Chancellor Dr. K.V.S. Gold Medal - M.Sc Economics from Pondicherry University. I have also been a Visiting Research Fellow at the India Institute, King's College London. I have also collaborated as external consultant with leading think tanks such as Asian Development Bank Institute and Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia.
My research has appeared in journals like Small Business Economics, Review of World Economics, Technological Forecasting & Social Change, World Economy, International Review of Economics & Finance, Global Finance Journal, Information Economics & Policy, Economic Modelling, Journal of Economics and Business, Economic & Political Weekly, Applied Economics, Applied Economics Letters, Journal of International Trade & Economic Development, among others.
ii. Recipient of Post Doctorate Equivalent Fellowship by Indian Institute of Technology Madras for Submitting Thesis in 3 year and 9 months
iii. Received RCEF’21 Best Paper Award for the paper “Firm Automation and Global Value Chain Participation: Cross-Country Analysis" presented at 3rd Rajagiri Conference on Economics and Finance (RCEF’21) - 19th -20th November 2021 organized by Rajagiri Business School
iv. Received Best Paper Award for the paper "Trade Facilitation and Firm Participation in Global Value Chains: Cross-Country Analysis" presented at the 1st International Conference on Infrastructure Development (ICID): Theory, Practice and Policy organized by Adani Institute of Infrastructure Management (AIIM) on 29-30 April 2021
v. Received Honorarium of $1000 USD from Asian Development Bank Institute for the paper “Driving Small and Medium-Sized Enterprise Participation in Global Value Chains: Evidence from India"
vi. Visiting Scholar, Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research, 1st Sept’ 2018- 30th Nov’ 2018
vii. Recipient of the First Vice-Chancellor Dr. K.V.S. Gold Medal - M.Sc Economics (5 year Integrated), Pondicherry University
viii. Qualified National Eligibility Test for Assistant Professor, University Grants Commission, 2017
Journal Publications
>> Ketan Reddy and Subash Sasidharan(2025). Digitalization, Firm performance, and Internalization of Micro Firm in India. [Asia-Pacific Sustainable Development Journal.], , . https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12870/8406 (ABDC B)
>> Ketan Reddy, Subash Sasidharan, and Shandre Mugan Thangavelu(2025). Does Economic Policy Uncertainty Impact Global Value Chain Participation of Indian Firms? The Role of Financial Constraints.. [Economic Modelling.], https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econmod.2025.107243, (ABDC A)
>> Ketan Reddy, Subash Sasidharan, and Shandre Mugan Thangavelu(2025). Urban Amenities, Productive Performance, and Global Value Chain Activities of Indian Firms.. [Review of Development Economics.], , . https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/rode.70089 (ABDC A)
>> Ketan Reddy, Subash Sasidharan, and Shandre Mugan Thangavelu(2025). Urban Amenities, Productive Performance, and Global Value Chain Activities of Indian Firms.. [Review of Development Economics.], , . https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/rode.70089 (ABDC A)
>> Radeef Chundakkadan, Subash Sasidharan, Ketan Reddy(2025). The Role of Export Incentives and Bank Credit on the Export Survival of Firms in India During COVID-19. [Emerging Markets Finance and Trade], https://doi.org/10.1080/1540496X.2025.2474718, (ABDC B)
>> Sasidaran Gopalan and Ketan Reddy(2025). Global Value Chain Disruptions and Firm Survival During COVID-19: An Empirical Investigation. [Emerging Markets Finance and Trade], https://doi.org/10.1080/1540496X.2025.2454401, (ABDC B)
>> Ketan Reddy and Subash S(2024). Trade Facilitation and Global Value Chain Participation: Cross-Country Analysis. [Foreign Trade Review], https://doi.org/10.1177/00157325241239720, (ABDC B)
>> Ketan Reddy and Sunil Kumar(2024). An Empirical Investigation into Discouraged Borrowers: A Portrait of Small & Medium Firms from Indian Manufacturing.. [Economic & Political Weekly], https://www.epw.in/journal/2024/24/special-articles/discouraged-borrowers.html, (ABDC B)
>> Ketan Reddy, Subash S, and Radeef Chundakkadan(2024). Firm Automation and Global Value Chain Participation: Cross-Country Analysis. [Applied Economics], https://doi.org/10.1080/00036846.2024.2303619, (ABDC A)
>> Ketan Reddy, Subash S, and Radeef Chundakkadan(2024). Firm Automation and Global Value Chain Participation: Cross-Country Analysis. [Applied Economics], https://doi.org/10.1080/00036846.2024.2303619, (ABDC A)
>> Sasidaran Gopalan, Ketan Reddy, and Subash S(2024). Can participation in global value chains improve female labor force participation? A firm-level empirical investigation. [Review of World Economics], https://doi.org/10.1007/s10290-024-00572-2, (ABDC B)
>> Ketan Reddy(2023). Firm Innovation, Financial Constraints and Exports: Evidence From Indian SMEs. [Asian Economics Letters], , . https://doi.org/10.46557/001c.74566 (ABDC C)
>> Ketan Reddy & Subash S(2023). Global Value Chains, Productivity and Markup: Evidence from India. [International Review of Economics & Finance], https://doi.org/10.1016/j.iref.2023.10.005, (ABDC A)
>> Ketan Reddy and Sasidaran Gopalan(2023). Gender Bias in access to trade credit: Firm-level evidence from emerging markets. [Global Finance Journal], https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gfj.2023.100835, (ABDC A)
>> Ketan Reddy and Sasidaran Gopalan(2023). Gender Bias in access to trade credit: Firm-level evidence from emerging markets. [Global Finance Journal], https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gfj.2023.100835, (ABDC A)
>> Ketan Reddy and Subash S(2023). Digitalization and global value chain participation: firm-level evidence from Indian manufacturing. [Journal of Industrial & Business Economics], , . http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s40812-023-00270-4 (ABS 1)
>> Sasidaran Gopalan, Sebastian Miroudut, and Ketan Reddy(2023). Digitalization and Resilience during Covid-19. [Applied Economic Letters], https://doi.org/10.1080/13504851.2023.2289399, (ABDC B)
>> Sasidaran Gopalan, Sebastian Miroudut, and Ketan Reddy(2023). Digitalization and Resilience during Covid-19. [Applied Economic Letters], https://doi.org/10.1080/13504851.2023.2289399, (ABDC B)
>> Ketan Reddy(2022). Innovative efforts and export market survival: Evidence from an emerging economy. [Technological Forecasting and Social Change], 186(Part A), (ABDC A)
>> Ketan Reddy and Subash S(2022). Servicification and Global Value Chain Survival: Firm-Level Evidence from India. [Australian Economic Papers], , (ABDC B)
>> Ketan Reddy, Subash S, Nadia Doytch(2022). Outward foreign direct investment and domestic innovation efforts: Evidence from India. [Journal of Economics and Business], , (ABDC B)
>> Ketan Reddy, Subash S., and Shandre Thangavelu(2022). Does Servicification of Manufacturing Increase the GVC Activities of Firms? Case of India.. [World Economy.], , . 10.1111/twec.13318 (ABDC A)
>> Sasidaran Gopalan, Ketan Reddy, and Subash S(2022). Does Digitalization spur Global Value Chain participation? Firm-level evidence from emerging markets. [Information Economics and Policy], , (ABDC A)
>> Ketan Reddy and Subash S(2021). A Portrait of Global Value Chain Linkages of Indian Manufacturing. [Journal of Asian Economic Integration], ,
>> Ketan Reddy and Subash S(2021). Financial Constraints and Global Value Chain Participation: Firm-Level Evidence from India. [Journal of International Trade & Economic Development], , (ABDC B)
>> Nadia Doytch, Nishant Yonzan, Ketan Reddy, and Filip De Beule(2021). Tracking Greenfield FDI During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Analysis by Sectors. [Foreign Trade Review], , (ABDC B)
>> Ketan Reddy(2020). Financial Constraints and Global Value Chains Participation of Indian MSMEs. [Indian Economic Journal], , (ABDC B)
>> Ketan Reddy and Subash S(2020). Will the COVID-19 change the landscape of financing innovation in India. [Economic and Political Weekly], 55(47), (ABDC B)
>> Ketan Reddy, Radeef Chundakkadan(2020). Firm Innovation and Global Value Chain Participation. [Small Business Economics], , (ABDC A)
>> Renjith Ramachandran, Ketan Reddy, Subash S(2020). Agglomeration and Productivity: Evidence from Indian Manufacturing. [Studies in Microeconomics], 8(1), 75 - 94 (ABDC C)