Essays on State Interventions and Market Outcomes in Developing Economies

Abstract

This thesis consists of three essays which empirically analyze the equilibrium effects of various state interventions in markets in developing countries. The first essay studies the effects of a bundle of large-scale agricultural interventions in India, focusing on their distributional impact on farmers and consumers. The second essay quantifies the economic costs of protectionist industrial policy interventions in the utility-scale solar sector in India. The third essay examines the aggregate and distributional effects of different public healthcare provision strategies in India. Each essay develops and estimates a context-specific structural model of the relevant market, that is then used to evaluate counterfactuals and generate policy insights.