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Cogent Economics & Finance, November 2024

Target prices forecasted by sell-side equity research analysts play a crucial role in market participants’ investment decisions. We, using a large sample for Indian markets, determine during the period and end of the period 12-month ahead target price achievements, examine the effectiveness of valuation methods for....

International Economics and Economic Policy, November 2024

We provide a measure of the credibility of the monetary policy of India after implementation of the Flexible Inflation Targeting (FIT) framework and attempt to deduce, if inflation expectations are anchored in India. The methodology involves (a) construction of a credibility index for the period 2012 to 2022 using annual data and....

Agricultural and Food Economics, November 2024

An examination of the dynamics of seed markets in Bihar, India, reveals a paradox—despite an influx of wheat varieties bred by public and private sectors and the proliferation of seed market networks in rural villages, older wheat varieties remain prevalent necessitating a thorough investigation of....

Annals of Financial Economics, November 2024

This study investigates the dynamic relationship between exchange rates, oil prices, and stock prices in the Indian market, considering bearish, bullish, and neutral market states. By utilizing the Quantile ARDL method, we explore long- and short-run relationships in differing market states. The variations in sensitivities of oil....

World Development, November 2024

Political parties engage in extortion across the developing world. However, discussion of this phenomenon is largely absent from existing research. Drawing upon hundreds of in-depth interviews with local political party leaders, bureaucrats, journalists, and the police in regions of India and Pakistan....

Indian Economic Review, November 2024

By categorizing children on the basis of the schooling status of their parents, this paper explores the mathematics learning inequality among Indian children at two points, 4 years apart. This has been studied in the context of their respective differences in the average socio-economic background characteristics....

Indian Economic Review, November 2024

This paper explores the complex interactions between environmental awareness at different life stages, taxation policies, and human capital accumulation within an overlapping generations model featuring two-period-lived households...

Indian Economic Review, November 2024

While the effect of rainfall and temperature anomalies on migration is well documented in the literature, little is known about the impact of climate-change-induced extreme events, particularly drought, on migration among rural farm households in India. Moreover, moderating impact of non-farm activities and access to irrigation...

The Indian Journal of Labour Economics, November 2024

This paper presents evidence on the labour supply of agricultural households in the Vidarbha region of Maharashtra, a predominantly rainfed region where agricultural households are dependent on cotton and soybean cultivation. Using panel data of cultivator and labour households...

The Indian Journal of Labour Economics, November 2024

Institutional changes that have emphasised flexible labour markets and advances in technologies, have made digital platforms commonplace. As platforms mediate an increasing number of services, the dominant work opportunity they offer is gigs to independent contractors...

The Indian Journal of Labour Economics, November 2024

The widespread displacement of jobs due to technology has become a central concern in academic and public discussions. As automation accelerates across various occupations, researchers have predominantly focused on an occupation-based perspective, which often predicts negative effects on employment...

Journal of Quantitative Economics, November 2024

The paper introduces a text-based index for measuring financial constraints. The study employs a novel phrase-matching algorithm to measure financial constraints. The phrase matching method (PMM) index captures the severity of financial constraints by calculating the percentage of constraint phrases in the annual report...

Journal of Quantitative Economics, November 2024

In this paper, we estimate the returns to general and technical education for regular and casual employment in India. We use the Employment and Unemployment Surveys of the National Sample Survey Office for the years 2004–2005 and 2011–2012. We find that education increases the likelihood of regular wage employment...

Journal of Quantitative Economics, November 2024

India’s manufacturing sector reflects a steady growth in the intermediate in- put intensity in the recent time. This paper is designed to examine the rich plant level data on Indian formal manufacturing sector to understand the decomposition of the ratio of input and value of output...

Journal of Quantitative Economics, November 2024

The current study incorporates a modified version of Kouri's (1983) portfolio balance rational expectations model to determine and forecast the bilateral exchange rate between India and the US for the period 1996:Q2-2019:Q3. The assumption of rational expectations...

Journal of Quantitative Economics, November 2024

This study examines the borrowing behaviour and the consequent real outcomes of non-financial Indian firms in the aftermath of COVID-19. Using borrower-level data for 2018–2022, the empirical analysis uncovers a substantial reduction in bank borrowings post-pandemic, although the impact was significantly lower for financially vulnerable...