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  • Relative prices, the price level and inflation: Effects of asymmetric and sticky adjustment 
    Tripathi, Shruti; Goyal, Ashima (2012-06-04)
    The paper examines how relative price shocks can affect the price level and then inflation. Using Indian data we find: (i) price increases exceed price decreases. Aggregate inflation depends on the distribution of relative ...
  • An Economic policy and legal analysis of the micro finance institutions (development & regulation) bill, 2011 
    Roy, Shubho; Sane, Renuka; Thomas, Susan (2012-06-04)
    In response to the Second Micro Finance Crisis in Andhra Pradesh, which took place in October 2010, the Ministry of Finance has pro- posed a new Micro Finance Institutions (Development & Regulation) Bill. This paper ...
  • Political competition and leadership in tax competition 
    Pal, Rupayan; Sharma, Ajay (2012-06-04)
    In this paper, we introduce political competition in a sequential move tax competition game between two regions for foreign owned mobile capital. It shows that in case of sequential move, political delegation takes place ...
  • Food, hunger and ethics 
    Mishra, Srijit (2012-06-04)
    Management of hunger has to look into issues of availability, accessibility and adequacy. Posing it from an ethical perspective the paper argues out in favour of right to food. But, for this to happen, the state has to ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • Estimates of workers commuting from rural to urban and urban to rural India: A Note 
    Chandrasekhar, S (2012-06-04)
    We provide estimates of workers residing in rural (urban) India and commuting to urban (rural) areas for work. The estimates are based on National Sample Survey Organisation’s survey of Employment and Unemployment ...
  • 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, ...
  • 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 ...
  • When do stock futures dominate price discovery? 
    Aggarwal, Nidhi; Thomas, Susan (2012-06-04)
    Stock futures offer leveraged positions and are expected to attract informed traders. However, many researchers have found that the information share of the stock futures is surprisingly small; the equity spot market ...
  • Poverty estimates in India: Old and new methods, 2004-05 
    Pathak, Durgesh C; Mishra, Srijit (2012-06-04)
    This paper provides estimates of poverty and inequality across states as also for different sub-groups of population for 2004-05 by using the old and new methods of the Planning Commission. The new method is critically ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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, ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...

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