Kabir Rahul Vaidya

PhD Candidate, · Economics

Adam Smith Business School, University of Glasgow

I am an applied microeconomic theorist. My work sits at the intersection of Political Economy, Development Economics and Inequality, with a focus on Electoral competition and Systemic Inequality. A central question in my work concerns the relationship between elite capture and clientelism in lower tiers of democratic governance. I complement theoretical work with structural estimation techniques brining empirical disicpline to the mechanisms the theory identifies.

I am advised by Prof. Sayantan Ghosal and Prof. Yiannis Vailakis.