Raman Singh Chhina
I'm a PhD candidate in the Department of Economics at the University of Chicago.
My primary research field is Macroeconomics and my current research agenda studies high potential entrepreneurs and the role that the state, technology and non-traditional forms of financing play in shaping their outcomes.
Working Papers​​
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Startups and the State
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Draft available soon​​​​
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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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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 Ocakverd
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Dashboard | Presentation: NBER Summer Institute 2023 | Media: Forbes, Forbes, CNN, Richmond Fed etc.
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Here is my latest CV and some of my writings.​​
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Contact: rschhina@uchicago.edu | Twitter | Google Scholar