Raman Singh Chhina
Raman Chhina
I'm a 2025-26 Job Market candidate from the Department of Economics at the University of Chicago.
My primary research fields are Macroeconomics and Economics Growth with a secondary focus on Entrepreneurship and Finance. My current research agendas study high-growth entrepreneurs and consequences of rising public debt.
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Here is my latest CV and you can contact me at rschhina@uchicago.edu
Working Papers​​
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Job Market Paper. Regularly Updated. ​​​​
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Welfare Costs and Benefits of Deficit-Financed Fiscal Policy
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​joint with Calvin He​​​​ (Latest draft July 2025)
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- Credit Card Entrepreneurs
- ​joint with Ufuk Akcigit, Seyit Cilasun, Javier Miranda, Nicolas Serrano-Velarde​​​
- Non-Technical Summary: BFI, NBER Digest
- Under Revision for the Review of Economic Studies
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Works in Progress​​
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How Long? Political Economy of Firm Level Subsidies and Technology Promotion​​​​​
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Lagging or Leading: AI Adoption by Entrepreneurs
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​joint with Akcigit, Cilasun, Miranda and Serrano-Velarde
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Small Business Activity Index
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Intuit QuickBooks Small Business Index: A new employment series for US, UK and Canada
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joint with Ufuk Akcigit, Seyit Cilasun, Javier Miranda, Nicolas Serrano-Velarde and Eren Ocakverdi
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Dashboard | Presentation: NBER Summer Institute 2023 | Media: Forbes, Forbes, CNN, Richmond Fed etc.
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Other Information: Some of my writings are here | Twitter | Google Scholar