NO: WP-2019-015 AUTHOR: K.V.Ramaswamy TITLE: Where Have All the Factories Gone? : Growth and Concentration of Sub-National Manufacturing Activity in India ABSTRACT: The spatial distribution of manufacturing across the states of India is analyzed covering the period 2004-05 to 2015-16. We found that the spatial concentration of manufacturing activity has increased […]
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Seminar: Mechanism Design in Single Dimensional Type Spaces
Seminar at IGIDR by Dr. Abdul Quadir, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi. Date & Hour: 27 May 2019, 4:00 pm Venue: Seminar Hall 1 Title: Mechanism Design in Single Dimensional Type Spaces Abstract: We consider a class of mechanism design problems in private value environment where the type of an […]
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IGIDR Working Paper: “Measuring electoral competitiveness: A probability ratio index”
NO: WP-2019-014 AUTHOR: Satya R. Chakravarty, Manipushpak Mitra, Suresh Mutuswami and Rupayan Pal TITLE: Measuring electoral competitiveness: A probability ratio index ABSTRACT: We propose an index of electoral competition based on the vote shares of parties competing in the election. This index is the ratio between the probabilities that the two voters […]
IGIDR Working Paper: External Debt Financing and Macroeconomic Instability in Emerging Market Economies
NO: WP-2019-013 AUTHOR: Ashima Goyal, Rajeswari Sengupta and Akhilesh Verma TITLE: External Debt Financing and Macroeconomic Instability in Emerging Market Economies ABSTRACT: We study the relationship between external debt financing and risk to macroeconomic stability using a panel vector autoregression model for a sample of ten major emerging market economies. We also […]
Online Examination Results for the M.Sc./M.Phil/Ph.D. Programme 2019
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WORKING PAPER: Analysing monetary policy statements of the Reserve Bank of India
NO : WP-2019-012 Title: Analysing monetary policy statements of the Reserve Bank of India Authors: Aakriti Mathur and Rajeswari Sengupta JEL classification: E52, E58, G12, G14 Keywords: Monetary policy, central bank communication, linguistic complexity, financial markets, textual analysis, natural language processing. Abstract: We quantitatively analyse the monetary policy statements of […]
