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Working Paper: Profitability in Emerging Markets: Efficiency or Market Power? A Study of Indian Firms

No: WP-2020-003 Author: Ramesh Jangili Title: Profitability in Emerging Markets: Efficiency or Market Power? A Study of Indian Firms Abstract: The legal systems in emerging economies are weak and hence unsuccessful in completely eliminating market abuse, which could benefit some segment of firms to earn higher profits. This further leads to market imperfections and eventually […]

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Working Paper: International Risk Sharing for Food Staples

No: WP-2020-002 Author: Digvijay S. Negi and Bharat Ramaswami Title: International Risk Sharing for Food Staples Abstract: It is claimed that the world food supplies are more stable than the domestic supplies, and therefore free trade should achieve a higher degree of stability in prices and consumption than autarkic policies. […]

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Working Paper: Equilibrium Real Exchange Rates and Misalignments in Large Emerging Markets: A Re-look through Panel Cointegrating Estimation

No: WP-2020-001 Author: Krittika Banerjee and Ashima Goyal Title: Equilibrium Real Exchange Rates and Misalignments in Large Emerging Markets: A Re-look through Panel Cointegrating Estimation Abstract: Equilibrium real exchange rates (ERERs) of a set of major emerging market economies (EMEs) are estimated in a panel cointegrating equation framework against trade weighted advanced economy […]

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Working Paper: Commercialization, Diversification and Structural Determinants of Farmers’ Income in India

No: WP-2019-042 Author: Varun Kumar Das and A. Ganesh-Kumar Title: Commercialization, Diversification and Structural Determinants of Farmers’ Income in India Abstract: This paper examines the effect commercialization (sale ratio, market transaction, co-operative sale), and diversification (crop, animal husbandry, and non-farm diversification) may have on farmers’ income. In investigating so, this paper takes into […]

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Working Paper: Synergies in Social Protection : Impacts of India’s MGNREGA and Public Distribution System on the health and nutrition of Women and Children

No: WP-2019-041 Author: Sudha Narayanan, Karthikeya Naraparaju, Nicolas Gerber Title: Synergies in Social Protection : Impacts of India’s MGNREGA and Public Distribution System on the health and nutrition of Women and Children Abstract: This paper examines whether participation in workfare and food grain subsidy programs in India impacts health and nutritional status of […]

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Working Paper: Dynamics and Determinants of Fragmentation Trade: Asian Countries in Comparative and Long-term Perspective

No: WP-2019-040 Author: C Veeramani and Garima Dhir Title: Dynamics and Determinants of Fragmentation Trade: Asian Countries in Comparative and Long-term Perspective Abstract: This paper analyses the dynamics and determinants of fragmentation trade in major Asian countries in comparative and long term (1962-2018) perspective. Based on the available literature, we identify certain […]

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Working Paper: Empowerment and Nutrition in Niger: Insights from the Women’s Empowerment in Nutrition Grid

No: WP-2019-039 Author:  Erin Lentz, Elizabeth Bageant, and Sudha Narayanan Title:  Empowerment and Nutrition in Niger: Insights from the Women’s Empowerment in Nutrition Grid Abstract: We present a novel application of a regression decomposition technique, the Shapley Owen decomposition, to identify the aspects of empowerment associated with undernutrition in Niger. Niger is […]

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