Ananya Kotia

Kotia is a Postdoctoral Fellow at SIEPR. His research is at the intersection of development economics, finance, and trade, and uses micro data to study heterogeneity in firm behaviour, and the aggregate implications of this heterogeneity for trade and macro models. Kotia is also the Founder and Director of the India Data Lab Initiative (IDLI), an open-source platform that harmonizes over 50 unit-level firm and household surveys from 1982 to the present. The initiative aims to promote quantitative historical research by reducing the duplication of data-cleaning efforts across the research community. In July 2027, Kotia will join the Stanford Graduate School of Business as an Assistant Professor.