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  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • India's fiscal and monetary framework: Growth in an opening economy 
    Goyal, Ashima (2012-06-02)
    Since a crisis is a shock impinging on a system, the response can be used to deduce aspects of the system’s structure. Analysis of the crisis and recovery suggests aggregate supply in India is elastic but subject to ...
  • Evolution of India's exchange rate regime 
    Goyal, Ashima (2012-06-02)
    The paper analyzes the changing INR trends over the reform period, in the context of fundamental determinants of exchange rates. In the early reform years the chief concern was to limit appreciation from inflows, and ...
  • Dynamics of urban mobility: A Comparative analysis of megacities of India 
    Reddy, B. Sudhakara; Balachandra, P (2012-06-02)
    This paper aims to analyse urban mobility patterns and consequent impacts on energy and environment in India. We investigate the quantity of energy use in 23 metropolitan regions for the period 1981–2005 and present ...
  • The Future of financial liberalization in South Asia 
    Goyal, Ashima (2012-06-02)
    The paper defines financial liberalization, distinguishing between liberalization of domestic financial markets and capital account convertibility. It then examines the stages and the strategy of Indian financial reform. ...
  • Rankings of economics journals and departments in India 
    Mukhopadhyay, Tilak; Sarkar, Subrata (2012-06-02)
    This paper is the first attempt to rank economics departments of Indian Institutions based on their research output. Two rankings, one based on publications in international journals, and the other based on publications ...
  • Auditor and audit committee independence in India 
    Sarkar, Jayati; Sarkar, Subrata (2012-06-02)
    This article reviews the regulations and governance reforms carried out in India with respect to auditor and audit committee independence. In doing so it critically compares them with the regulations existing in the US. ...
  • Econometric approach to water use estimation in power plants 
    Perini, Praveena Sri (2012-06-02)
    The purpose of this paper is to examine water use estimation in hydel and thermal electric power plants in selected regions i.e. Coastal, Rayalaseema and Telangana regions of Andhra Pradesh. The study primarily focuses ...
  • Does partial privatization improve the environment? 
    Pal, Rupayan; Saha, Bibhas (2012-06-01)
    This paper shows that, in case of differentiated products mixed duopoly, environmental damage increases (decreases) with the level of privatization, if the level of privatization is less (more) than certain level. It ...
  • The Electric energy-water nexus: Managing the seasonal linkages of fresh water use in energy sector for sustainable future 
    Perini, Praveena Sri (2012-06-01)
    The fast growing demand for fresh water-coupled with the need to protect the environment has made many areas of India and the rest of the World vulnerable to water shortages for various uses of the economy. As they ...
  • Entry threats, and inefficiency in efficient bargaining 
    Pal, Rupayan; Saha, Bibhas (2012-06-01)
    We examine whether the outcome of bargaining over wage and employment between an incumbent firm and a union remains efficient under entry threat. The workers\' reservation wage is not known to the entrant, and entry is ...
  • How much should you own? Cross-ownership and privatization 
    Pal, Rupayan (2012-06-01)
    This paper examines the interdependence of cross-ownership and level of privatization in case of differentiated products mixed duopoly. It shows that it is optimal for the private firm not to own any (own the entire) ...
  • Poverty and inequality in Uttar Pradesh during 1993-94 to 2004-05: A Decomposition analysis 
    Pathak, Durgesh Chandra (2012-06-01)
    This paper attempts a decomposition analysis of Poverty scenario in UP during 1993-94 and 2004-05. It was found that poverty has decreased but inequality has increased between these years. The main problems in the state ...
  • Selection criteria for sustainable development indicators 
    Nathan, Hippu Salk Kristle; Reddy, B. Sudhakara (2012-06-01)
    The selection of optimum number of indicators is the key to any Sustainable Development Indicator (SDI) research. Indicators, too less in number may be inadequate to convey the message and; too many may dilute the purpose. ...
  • Extracting information on inflation from consumer and wholesale prices and the NKE aggregate supply curve 
    Goyal, Ashima; Tripathi, Shruti (2012-06-01)
    Since consumer prices are a weighted average of the prices of domestic and of imported consumption goods, and producer prices feed into final consumer prices, wholesale price inflation should cause consumer price inflation. ...
  • Incomplete contracts, incentives and economic power 
    Motiram, Sripad (2012-06-01)
    This paper formalizes ideas from classical and radical political economy on task allocation and technology adoption under capitalism. A few previous studies have attempted this, but the framework and results in this paper ...
  • Progress in human development - Are we on the right path? 
    Nathan, Hippu Salk Kristle; Mishra, Srijit (2012-06-01)
    The conventional measure of Human Development Index (HDI) is a linear average across dimensions, HDI1. Under this, poor attainments in any dimension gets perfectly compensated for better attainments in any other dimension ...

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