Current position
I am a Research Associate at the Faculty of Business and Economics at the University of Basel, Switzerland.

Fields of interest
Primary: Financial intermediation, Fintech, Corporate finance, Contract theory
Secondary: Monetary policy, Macroeconomics, Development Economics

Publications
Mohanty, M. and Rishabh, K. (2016). “Financial intermediation and monetary policy transmission in EMEs: What has changed post-2008 crisis?” Chetan Ghate and Kenneth Kletzer (Eds.) Monetary Policy in India: A Modern Macroeconomic Perspective. Springer.

Current Working Papers
Rishabh, Kumar & Schäublin, Jorma, 2021. "Fintech Lending and Sales Manipulation". Working papers 2021/02, Faculty of Business and Economics - University of Basel.

Rishabh, Kumar, 2021. “Bank as a Venture Capitalist”. Working papers 2021/09, Faculty of Business and Economics - University of Basel.

Lengwiler, Y. and Rishabh, K. (2018). “Failure of Collateral”.

Work in Progress
Payment and the Repayment: Loan Underwriting Using Payment Footprints

Opaqueness and Optimal Intermediary Financing (with Christian Wipf, Essex University)

Education
PhD in Applied Economics, University of Basel, Switzerland, 2020
New York University, Stern School of Business New York, USA, Visiting PhD Research Scholar, 2018
Swiss Program for Beginning Doctoral Students in Economics, Study Center Gerzensee, Switzerland, 2016
M.A Economics, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India, 2009
B.A Economics,University of Delhi, Delhi, India, 2007

Teaching
Banks and the Fintech Revolution
Economics of Banking                        
Growth and Development          
Bachelor Seminar in Economics