Sasidaran Gopalan
Senior Lecturer in Economics (Educator-Track)
Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy
National University of Singapore (NUS)
About Me
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I'm a Senior Lecturer in Economics at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy (LKYSPP), National University of Singapore (NUS). Prior to this, I was an Assistant Professor of Economics in the College of Business and Economics at the United Arab Emirates University (UAEU) based in Abu Dhabi.
In the past, I have held various research appointments across several universities in Asia including Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Hong Kong), Nanyang Technological University (Singapore), and NUS. I have also taught at the Graduate School of Public Policy at Nazarbayev University (Kazakhstan). My teaching interests span the broad areas of macroeconomics for policy, money and banking, empirical methods for public policy, international economic policy, and international political economy, with a significant applied policy emphasis. I have taught one or more of these courses over the years at both the graduate and undergraduate levels, across both public policy as well as business schools.
My research focus is closely aligned with his teaching interests. My research assumes a strong interdisciplinary orientation and lies at the intersection of applied macroeconomics, international economics and development policy, with a broad focus on emerging markets. Specific topics include foreign direct investment, financial globalization, financial inclusion, and trade and global value chains. I have published in notable field journals such as World Development, the World Economy, Climate Policy, and Journal of Macroeconomics, co-written books, as well as contributed to several policy briefs and op-eds for leading global financial dailies.
I obtained my PhD in Public Policy from George Mason University (GMU) in Virginia, USA in 2014.
Latest Books
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Cavoli, T., Gopalan, S., and Rajan, R.S. "Complexities of Financial Globalisation: Analytical and Policy Issues in Emerging and Developing Economies," Routledge, Taylor & Francis (UK), August 2020.
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Media coverage: "Economic Liberalisation No Shortcut For Development,"​ Global-is-Asian, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, 24 August, 2020.
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Journal Articles: What's New?
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Global Value Chains
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Gopalan, S., Reddy, K. and Miroudot, S. (2023). "Global Value Chains and Firm Survivability During the Covid-19 Pandemic: Digitalization as the Moderator," Applied Economics Letters (Forthcoming)
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Gopalan, S., Reddy, K. and Sasidharan, S. (2022). "Does Digitalization Spur Global Value Chain Participation? Firm Level Evidence from Emerging Markets," Information Economics and Policy, 59: 1-13.
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​Financial Inclusion
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Cavoli, T., and Gopalan, S., (2023). “Does Financial Inclusion Promote Consumption Smoothing? Evidence from Emerging and Developing Economies” International Review of Economics and Finance, 88: 1529-1546.
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Reddy, K., and Gopalan, S. (2023). "Gender Bias in Access to Trade Credit: Firm Level Evidence from Emerging Markets," Global Finance Journal, 57, 1-11.
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Cavoli, T., Gopalan, S., Onur, I., and Xenarios, S. (2023). “Does Financial Inclusion Improve Sanitation Access? Empirical Evidence from Low and Middle-Income Countries” International Journal of Water Resources Development, 39(5): 724-745.
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Gopalan, S., and Khalid, U. (2023). "Promoting Outbound Tourism Through Financial Inclusion: Evidence from Emerging Markets and Developing Economies," Annals of Tourism Research: Empirical Insights, 4(1): 1-3.
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Gopalan, S. (2022). "What Drives Start-Up Entrepreneurship in India's Subnational Economies?," The Indian Economic Journal, 70(2): 370-373.
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Gopalan, S., and Khalid, U. (2022). "How Does Financial Inclusion Influence Tourism Demand? Empirical Evidence from Emerging Markets and Developing Economies," Tourism Recreation Research (Accepted and Forthcoming).
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Gopalan, S., and Rajan, R.S. (2021). “Does Digital Financial Inclusion Moderate or Exacerbate Output Volatility?” Applied Economics Letters, 22(19): 1804-1809.
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Cavoli, T., Gopalan, S., and Rajan, R.S. (2020). “Financial Inclusion and Output Volatility: An Empirical Investigation” Open Economies Review, 31: 901-930. ​
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Gopalan, S., and Sasidharan, S. (2020). “Financial Liberalization and Firms’ Access to Credit in Emerging and Developing Economies: An Empirical Investigation” Journal of Economics and Business, 107: 1-19.
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Foreign Direct Investment, Capital Flows, and Financial Integration
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Gopalan, S., Gupta, B., and Rajan, R.S. (2023). "Do Climate Risks Influence Foreign Direct Investment Inflows to Emerging and Developing Economies?" Climate Policy (Forthcoming). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/14693062.2023.2237479
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Gopalan, S., Gupta, B., and Rajan, R.S. (2023). "Financial globalisation in ASEAN+3: Navigating the financial trilemma" Global Policy, 14(3): 464-476.
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Cavoli, T., Gopalan, S. and Rajan, R.S. (2023). "Is Exchange Rate Centered Monetary Policy Asymmetric?
Empirical Evidence from Singapore" Applied Economics, 55(21):2438-2454.
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Gopalan, S., and Sharipova, A. (2023). "What Attracts Greenfield Foreign Direct Investment Inflows to Asia? Evidence from Firms’ Motives," Transnational Corporations Review, 15(1): 111-129.
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Cavoli, T., Gopalan, S. and Rajan, R.S. (2022). "Can Macroprudential Policies Moderate the Influence of Capital Flows on Real Exchange Rates? Empirical Evidence from Emerging Markets" International Review of Finance, 22(3): 567-579.
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Cavoli, T., Gopalan, S. and Rajan, R.S. (2021). "Do Macroprudential Policies Counter Real Exchange Rate Appreciation in Emerging Markets?" The World Economy , 44(7): 2164-2187. ​
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