One Battle After Another, a Thomas Pynchon adaptation that Paul Thomas Anderson has dreamed of making for decades, is his first real action movie, a raunchy, funny, pulse-pounding thriller w/ Leo DiCaprio as a burnout revolutionary in a fascist dystopia that's all too real. slate.com/culture/2025...

Real Estate Regulatory Authority was introduced in 2016 to bring transparency in the Indian real estate What was its impact on outcomes? We answer this question in our new @jpube.bsky.social‬ paper "Do mandatory disclosures squeeze the lemons?" www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 1/6

Just published in @jpube.bsky.social: "Do mandatory disclosures squeeze the lemons? The case of housing markets in India" By @vaidehitandel.bsky.social, @gandhisahil.bsky.social, Anupam Nanda, & Nandini Agnihotri www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #econsky #publiceconomics #HousingMarket

On India Inside Out: "In some ways, the fallout of the Pahalgam attack has meant that the hyphen is once again hovering over India. If Operation Sindoor does indeed establish the deterrence India has long sought, then it may well be shot down." rohanvenkat.substack.com/p/the-hyphen...

Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad's Economics Area seeks faculty applications at Professor, Associate Professor, Assistant Professor levels. Applications in Macroeconomics, Industrial Organization, Econometrics and Law and Economics particularly appreciated. www.aeaweb.org/joe/listing....

#econsky next talk in the Indian economy virtual seminar is by @vaidehitandel.bsky.social (Manchester) on flooding and housing prices in Mumbai. @aradhyasood.bsky.social (UofT) will discuss. Please see registration details below.

This year, even before the onset of peak #summer, #Mumbai is experiencing high temperatures. Temperatures are likely to exceed 38 degrees – 5 degrees higher than average. scroll.in/article/1080... Experts tell Tabassum Barnagarwala how opening parks can keep heat-related illnesses at bay.

The Cubbon Park Secret Santa thing is such a New India story, it feels faintly unreal. A bunch of upper middle class Indians trying to utilise public space with a genteel activity (reading in the park!) -> they announce a Secret Santa -> the park wardens think it’s some kind of sale ->

Office conversions taking off: • 63 conversion projects in 2023 • 73 completed this year • 309 planned or under way, 3/4 office -> resi • 38k units in works • half of $1.12b in Manhattan office purchases were for conversions • 12% of Cleveland office space is converting www.wsj.com/real-estate/...

Constructing influence: Political turnover reveals quid pro quo arrangements in Mumbai’s real estate. Today on VoxDev, Vaidehi Tandel, Sahil Gandhi & Alex Tabarrok outline their research on the politician-developer nexus in #India: voxdev.org/topic/migrat...