Nawaraj Sharma Paudel

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Educational Background

• Ph.D. in Economics, Southern Illinois University Carbondale
• M.A. in Economics, Western Illinois University
• M.A. in Economics, Tribhuvan University, Nepal 

Research interest

• Trade, Migration
• Technology
• Regional Economics & Urban Economics
• Microeconomics
• Development Economics 

Courses

• ECON 101 Economics Principles and Problems
• ECON 202 Intermediate Microeconomics
• ECON 241 Econometrics
• ECON 307 Urban and Regional Economics

Peer-Reviewed Journal Publications

Paudel, N. S., & Lahiri, S. (2024). The effects of state-level foreign manufacturing imports on domestic inter-state and intra-state sales in the USA. Economic Analysis and Policy, 81, 297-305. 

Paudel, N. S., & Lahiri, S. (2021). Do politically and economically similar states in the USA trade more with each other? Economics Bulletin Vol, 41, 1541-1552. 

Ghimire, S., & Paudel, N. S. (2019). R&D, FDI, and Innovation: Examination of the Patent Applications in the OECD Countries. Journal of Development Innovations, 3(2), 1-11. 

Manuscript Under Review

State Size and Interstate Migration in the United States: Evidence from a Structural Gravity Model. (With Sajal Lahiri) 

Internal Migration, Interstate Trade, and Regional Heterogeneity in the United States. (With Carl Lin) 

Processed Food Import, BMI, and the Obesity Kuznets Curve: Disaggregating Results by Income Groups (with Jeeten Giri)