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  • Youth employment and unemployment in India 
    Mahendra Dev, S; Venkatanarayana, M (2012-06-04)
    Increase in the share of youth population due to demographic ‘dividend’ or the ‘youth bulge’ seems to be one of the sources of future economic growth in India. Although with increase in school and college enrolment rates, ...
  • History of monetary policy in India since independence 
    Goyal, Ashima (2012-06-04)
    An SIIO paradigm, based on structure and ideas that become engraved in institutions and affect outcomes, is developed to examine and assesses monetary policy in India after independence. Narrative history, data analysis, ...
  • Cross-LoC trade in Kashmir: From line of control to line of commerce 
    Kira, Altaf Hussain (2012-06-04)
    The initiation of Cross-Line of Control (LoC) trade across Jammu and Kashmir in October 2008 signaled the beginning of a new era. It was 61 years ago in 1947 that trade across line of control had stopped. The initiative ...
  • Urban transport sustainability indicators – Application of multi-view black-box (MVBB) framework 
    Nathan, Hippu Salk Kristle; Reddy, B. Sudhakara (2012-06-04)
    In a recent work Nathan and Reddy (2011a) have proposed a Multi-view Black-box (MVBB) framework for development of sustainable development indicators (SDIs) for an urban setup. The framework is flexible to be applied to ...
  • Size-class and returns to cultivation in India: A Cold case reopened 
    Gaurav, Sarthak; Mishra, Srijit (2012-06-04)
    This paper investigates the relationship between returns to cultivation per hectare and size-class of land cultivated in India, using unit level data from the 59th round National Sample Survey, 2003. The analysis is done ...
  • Competition for foreign capital: Endogenous objective, public investment and tax 
    Pal, Rupayan; Sharma, Ajay (2012-06-04)
    In this paper we endogenize the objective functions of the regions as well as their decision to provide public investment in a model of competition for foreign owned mobile capital. We demonstrate that the competing ...
  • A Regulatory approach to financial product advice and distribution 
    Sahoo, M; Sane, Renuka (2012-06-04)
    Financial distribution, where the distributor is the agent of both the product provider and the customer, has been found to inherently work against the interests of customers, in the form of high service fees and perverse ...
  • Conflict resolution through mutuality: Lessons from bayesian updating 
    Mishra, Srijit (2012-06-04)
    If priors are deterministic (zero or unity) and conditional evidence is uncertain (lies between zero and one) then Bayesian updating will lead to posteriors that are the same as priors. This in a sense explains the ...
  • Rewarding innovation efficiently: Research spill-overs and exclusive IP rights 
    Denicoloy, Vincenzo; Franzoni, Luigi A (2012-06-04)
    We investigate the conditions for the desirability of exclusive intellectual property rights for innovators, as opposed to weak rights allowing for some degree of imitation and ex-post competition. The comparison between ...
  • Monetary operating procedures: Principles and the Indian process 
    Goyal, Ashima (2012-06-04)
    As markets deepen and interest elasticities increase it is optimal for emerging markets to shift towards an interest rate instrument since continuing monetization of the economy implies money demand shocks are large. In ...
  • Rising food crisis and financial crisis in India: Impact on women and children and ways of tackling the problem 
    Mahendra Dev, S (2012-06-04)
    The objective of the study is to examine the impact of rising food prices and financial crisis on the impact of women and children in India. It identifies the pathways for dealing with the effects of these two crisis on ...
  • Returns to education in India: Some recent evidence 
    Agrawal, Tushar (2012-06-04)
    This paper estimates returns to education in India using a nationally representative survey. We estimate the standard Mincerian wage equation separately for rural and urban sectors. To account for the possibility of ...
  • NREGS and child well being 
    Mahendra Dev, S (2012-06-04)
    There have been many evaluation studies on the impact of NREGS but there are hardly any systematic studies relating to impact of the scheme on children. This paper tries to fill this gap. There is a huge literature on ...
  • Deprivation and vulnerability among elderly in India 
    Syam Prasad (2012-06-04)
    Changing age structure is one of structural change that witnessed in the last century. Population ageing is one of its consequences, which emerges as a global phenomenon in the present day. It is generally expressed as ...
  • Mixed duopoly and environment 
    Pal, Rupayan; Saha, Bibhas (2012-06-04)
    We show under general demand and cost conditions that in a mixed duopoly with pollution the government can (and will) implement the socially optimal outputs and abatements by a tax-subsidy scheme and keeping the public ...
  • Liquidity considerations in estimating implied volatility 
    Grover, Rohini; Thomas, Susan (2012-06-04)
    Option markets have significant variation in liquidity across different option series. Illiquidity reduces the informativeness of the price. Price information for illiquid options is more noisy, and thus the implied ...
  • The Determinants of trade credit: Evidence from Indian manufacturing firms 
    Vaidya, Rajendra R (2012-06-04)
    Trade credit (accounts receivable and accounts payable) is both an important source and use of funds for manufacturing firms in India. This paper empirically investigates the determinants of trade credit in the Indian ...
  • A Policy response to the Indian micro- nance crisis 
    Sane, Renuka; Thomas, Susan (2012-06-04)
    Recent events in India have brought a fresh focus upon the problem of regulation in the eld of micro- nance. This paper delineates the three distinct aspects where government needs to play a role. The rst is to protect ...
  • Improving the legal process in enforcement at SEBI 
    Raval, Dharmishta (2012-06-04)
    The first statutory regulatory body that the government of India set up post the reforms of 1991 was the Securities and Exchanges Board of India (SEBI). As a regulator for the securities markets, SEBI was given the ...
  • Climate change, rural livelihoods and agriculture (focus on food security) in Asia-Pacific region 
    Mahendra Dev, S (2012-06-04)
    Climate change is a major challenge for agriculture, food security and rural livelihoods for billions of people including the poor in the Asia-Pacific region. Agriculture is the sector most vulnerable to climate change ...