Pravin Krishna is Chung Ju Yung Distinguished Professor of International Economics and Business at Johns Hopkins University (School of Advanced International Studies and Department of Economics) and Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER).

Professor Krishna’s fields of research interest are international economics, political economy, economic development and the political economy of India. He has published dozens of articles in a number of scholarly journals including the American Economic Review, Journal of Political Economy, the Quarterly Journal of Economics, the Review of Economic Studies, the Journal of International Economics and the Journal of Development Economics. He is the author of Trade Blocs: Economics and Politics (Cambridge University Press, 2005) and more recently co-editor, along with Jagdish Bhagwati and Arvind Panagariya, of The World Trade System: Trends and Challenges (MIT Press, 2016).

Professor Krishna holds a Bachelors degree in engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Bombay and an MA, MPhil and PhD in Economics from Columbia University. He has previously held appointments at Brown University, the University of Chicago, Columbia University, Princeton University and Stanford University and has served as a consultant to the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund.

Research and Publications

Barnwal, P., Dingel, J.I., Iurchenko, D., Krishna, P. and Van Leemput, E., 2024. Internal Trade Barriers in India.

Chaurey, R., Kim, R. and Krishna, P., 2024. Liquidity Shocks and Firm Exports: Evidence from Cash Shortages during India's Demonetization (No. w33142). National Bureau of Economic Research.

Chaurey, R., Kim, R. and Krishna, P., 2024. Liquidity Shocks and Firm Exports: Evidence from India's Demonetization.

Krishna, P., Levchenko, A.A., Ma, L. and Maloney, W.F., 2023. Growth and risk: A view from international trade. Journal of International Economics, 142, p.103755.

Chaurey, R., Kim, R. and Krishna, P., 2022. Demonetization and Firm Exports.

Deng, L., Krishna, P., Senses, M.Z. and Stegmaier, J., 2022. Trade, human capital, and income risk (No. w29612). National Bureau of Economic Research.  

Krishna, G., 2021. 'Tough Act Approach'towards Juveniles for Commission of Heinous Crimes-Indian Context: Through a Critical Analysis of Dr. Subramanian Swamy & Ors vs. Raju, the Member Juvenile Justice Board & Anr Case. Indian JL & Legal Rsch., 2, p.1.

Hang, J., Krishna, P. and Tang, H., 2020. Input-output networks and misallocation (No. w27983). National Bureau of Economic Research.

Krishna, P., Levchenko, A.A. and Maloney, W.F., 2020. Growth and Risk.

Deng, L., Krishna, P., Senses, M.Z. and Stegmaier, J., 2020. Imports, Exports and Income Risk. Institute for Employment Research.

Bhagwati, J.N., Krishna, P. and Rivera-Batiz, F.L., 2020. Protectionist myths. In ENCYCLOPEDIA OF INTERNATIONAL ECONOMICS AND GLOBAL TRADE: Volume 3: International Trade and Commercial Policy (pp. 33-55).