Home on ragul nhttps://raguln.in/Recent content in Home on ragul nHugoen-usFri, 24 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000Some unpleasant arithmetic on Tamil Nadu's electricity subsidy schemehttps://raguln.in/blog/some-unpleasant-arithmetic-on-tamil-nadus-electricity-subsidy-scheme/Fri, 24 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://raguln.in/blog/some-unpleasant-arithmetic-on-tamil-nadus-electricity-subsidy-scheme/<p>Every household in Tamil Nadu gets 50 units per month free of charge<sup id="fnref:1"><a href="#fn:1" class="footnote-ref" role="doc-noteref">1</a></sup>. For every additional unit they consume below 500 units, they only pay ₹4–6 per unit while it costs about ₹8.5 on average to supply each unit<sup id="fnref:2"><a href="#fn:2" class="footnote-ref" role="doc-noteref">2</a></sup>. At the current power tariff structure, a household consuming a little less than 250 units per month effectively pays only about ₹4 per unit. Even households consuming about $\lesssim 500$ units per month pay only about ₹6.5 per unit. This works out to an implicit subsidy of about ₹1000 per month</p><link>https://raguln.in/research/example-paper/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://raguln.in/research/example-paper/</guid><description><!--# +++ # title = "Information Frictions in Decentralized Matching Markets" # date = 2026-05-01 # draft = false # authors = ["Ragul Natarajan", "Coauthor Name"] # venue = "Working paper" # status = "Draft — comments welcome" # abstract = "We study how costly information acquisition reshapes stable matchings when agents cannot observe the full market. A tractable model shows that small search frictions can generate large welfare losses relative to the frictionless benchmark." # pdf = "" # arxiv = "" # code = "" # slides = "" # +++--> <!--This is an example research entry. The abstract, authors, venue, and links above render on the `/research/` list automatically. Any prose you write here appears on its own page behind the **[details]** link. You can use full math and footnotes here too, just like blog posts — set `math = true` in the front matter if you need LaTeX.--></description></item></channel></rss>