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  • Multiple board appointments and firm performance in emerging economies: Evidence from India 
    Sarkar, Jayati; Sarkar, Subrata (2012-05-24)
    The relation between multiple directorships, busy directors and firm performance has been researched predominantly in the context of developed economies, notably the US. This paper extends the existing literature on ...
  • The Natural interest rate in emerging markets 
    Goyal, Ashima (2012-05-30)
    An optimizing model of a small open emerging market economy (SOEME) with dualistic labour markets and two types of consumers, is used to derive the natural interest rate, terms of trade and potential output. Shocks are ...
  • Negotiating constitution for political unions 
    Vikas Kumar (2012-05-31)
    This paper provides a cradle-to-grave model for political union between two unequally endowed states. We introduce negotiated, contested, and time-consistent contested constitutions to address various classes of merger ...
  • Neighborhood and agricultural clusters across states of India 
    Chatterjee, Tirtha; Ganesh Kumar, A (2014-10)
    In this study we trace how number and members of income clusters have changed in Indian agriculture over the last four and a half decades. Two features which stand out in our results are that not all geographical neighbors ...
  • Network externalities and process R&D: A Cournot-Bertrand comparison 
    Naskar, Mili; Pal, Rupayan (2016-07)
    This paper examines the implication of the nature of competition in a market with network externalities on strategic investment in process R&D by firms. It shows that network externalities have a positive effect on process ...
  • Non-tariff measures affecting India's textiles and clothing exports: Findings from the survey of exporters 
    Saini, Gordhan K (2012-05-31)
    This paper reports findings from the survey of India’s textiles and clothing exporters. The survey method has been used to identify and assess the impact of Non-Tariff Measures (NTMs) and the Cost of Compliance (COC) ...
  • Non-tariff measures and Indian textiles and clothing exports 
    Saini, Gordhan K (2012-05-31)
    This paper provides some important indicators of non-tariff measures in Indian textiles and clothing exports. The paper identifies major trading partners and HS codes to study the impact of Non Taiff Measures (NTMs) on ...
  • Notional Contracts: The Moral economy of contract farming arrangements in India 
    Narayanan, Sudha (2012-09)
    This study examines the moral economy of firm-farmer contracts in contract farming schemes in India, bringing together data from field surveys, conducted between 2007 and 2010, of 42 agribusinesses and 484 contract farmers ...
  • 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 ...
  • Oil price, exchange rate and the Indian macro economy 
    Ghosh, Taniya (2016-05-16)
    The general discussions on the Indian macro economy have centered on two things in the recent past: how will the economy be impacted by falling value (depreciation) of rupee and the effects of falling world oil prices. ...
  • On a class of human development index measures 
    Mishra, Srijit; Nathan, Hippu Salk Kristle (2012-05-31)
    Using Minkowski distance function we propose a class of Human Development Index measures. Special cases of this turn out to be the popularly used linear average method as also a newly proposed displaced ideal method. Two ...
  • On government-industry nexus and indigenous armed resistance 
    Munshi, Soumyanetra (2015-03)
    This paper proposes a simple game-theoretic framework for analyzing the relationship between the government, industry and indigenous community, especially in the context of mounting violence surrounding displacement of ...
  • On measuring group differential: Some further results 
    Nathan, Hippu Salk Kristle; Mishra, Srijit (2012-05-29)
    We impose a value judgment that a decrease in failure should be accompanied by a decrease in gap (difference or ratio) between sub-groups. In other words, the same gap at lower levels of failure is to be considered worse ...
  • On measuring group-differentials displayed by socio-economic indicators:An extension 
    Mishra, Srijit (2012-05-25)
    In a recent paper, Mishra and Subramanian (2006) propose a measure to explain group-differential which is sensitive to levels in the sense that a given hiatus at lower levels of failure (or higher levels of attainment) is ...
  • On the internal mobility of Indians: Knowledge gaps and emerging concerns 
    Sharma, Ajay; Chandrasekhar, S (2012-09)
    This paper identifies key knowledge gaps on the issue of migration and commuting workers in India. First, we need to understand how the sources of income of rural households in India have changed over time. We need to be ...
  • On the notion of equilibrium or the centre of gravitation in economic theory 
    Sinha, Ajit (2012-06-01)
    This paper is a critical examination of the notion of equilibrium in the classical theory of value. It highlights the theoretical importance as well as the problems associated with the notion of equilibrium in the classical ...
  • On the spatial concentration of employment in India 
    Chandrasekhar, S; Sharma, Ajay (2014-01)
    This paper seeks to understand what kind of economic activities are concentrated in which regions of India. Spatial concentration of jobs is measured by calculating the location quotient using information on the industry ...
  • Payment systems to facilitate South Asian integration 
    Goyal, Ashima (2015-07)
    Considerable technology-based evolution in payment systems offers opportunities for convergence to a regional payment system. Though South Asian wholesale payment systems are more developed compared to retail, and smaller ...
  • Picking the winner: Measuring urban sustainability in India 
    Reddy, B. Sudhakara; Tiwari, Arpit (2016-07)
    This study provides a snapshot of the sustainability of selected Indian cities by employing 57 indicators in four dimensions to develop an overall city sustainability index. In recent years, its complexity has made 'urban ...
  • Polarization, inequality and growth: The Indian experience 
    Motiram, Sripad; Sarma, Nayantara (2012-06-04)
    We analyze polarization in India roughly in the past two and half decades using consumption expenditure data. We show that polarization has increased sharply since the 1990s, reversing the earlier trend. On multidimensional ...

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