NO:WP-2016-013 AUTHOR: Taniya Ghosh TITLE: Oil Price, Exchange Rate and the Indian Macro Economy ABSTRACT : The general discussions on the Indian macro economy have centered on two things in the recent past: how will the economy be impacted by falling value (depreciation) of rupee and the effects of falling […]
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IGIDR Working Paper : Probabilistic Patents, Alternative Damage Rules and Optimal Trade Policy
NO : WP-2017-004 AUTHOR :Apurva Dey, Arun Kumar Kaushik and Rupayan Pal TITLE : Probabilistic Patents, Alternative Damage Rules and Optimal Trade Policy ABSTRACT : This paper analyzes interdependencies between optimal trade policy and ‘preferred’ liability doctrine to assess infringement damages, when intellectual property rights are probabilistic, in a model of […]
IGIDR Working Paper : Size Dependent Tax incentives, Threshold Effects and Horizontal Subcontracting in Indian Manufacturing: Evidence from Factory and Firm-level Panel Data Sets
NO:WP-2016-007 AUTHOR: K.V. Ramaswamy TITLE: Size Dependent Tax incentives, Threshold Effects and Horizontal Subcontracting in Indian Manufacturing: Evidence from Factory and Firm-level Panel Data Sets ABSTRACT: India’s industrial protection and promotion policies for small-scale enterprises have figured prominently in the literature on industrialization policies in developing countries. These size dependent tax […]
IGIDR Working Paper : Social and Economic Impact Analysis of Vadinar Refinery of Essar Oil: The Case of a Mega Refinery
NO: WP-2016-011 AUTHOR: Sumana Chaudhuri ,Shovan Ray TITLE: Social and Economic Impact Analysis of Vadinar Refinery of Essar Oil: The Case of a Mega Refinery ABSTRACT : The paper is a case study of Vadinar refinery in Gujarat. It examines the costs and benefits associated with one of the world’s mega […]
IGIDR Working Paper : Stock market participation in the aftermath of an accounting scandal
NO : WP-2017-006 AUTHOR :Renuka Sane TITLE : Stock market participation in the aftermath of an accounting scandal ABSTRACT : In this paper we study the impact on investor behaviour of fraud revelation. We ask if investors with direct exposure to stock market fraud (treated investors) are more likely to decrease […]
IGIDR Working Paper : Tacit Collusion and Market Concentration under Network Effects
NO: WP-2016-010 AUTHOR: Rupayan Pal and Marcella Scrimitore TITLE: Tacit Collusion and Market Concentration under Network Effects ABSTRACT : In an infinitely repeated Cournot game with trigger strategy punishment, we demonstrate that the relationship between market concentration and collusion sustainability depends on the strength of network externalities. The latter is […]
IGIDR Working Paper : Testing the Friedman-Schwartz Hypothesis Using Time Varying Correlation
NO : WP-2019-001 AUTHOR : Taniya Ghosh, Prashant Mehul Parab TITLE : Testing the Friedman-Schwartz Hypothesis Using Time Varying Correlation ABSTRACT : This study analyses the time varying correlation of money and output using the DCC GARCH model for the Euro, India, Poland, the UK and the US. Apart from simple […]
IGIDR Working paper : The effect of oil shocks and cyclicality in hiding Indian twin deficits
NO : WP-2017-005 AUTHOR :Ashima Goyal and Abhishek Kumar TITLE : The effect of oil shocks and cyclicality in hiding Indian twin deficits ABSTRACT : The paper estimates the relationship between the current account and fiscal deficit, and the real exchange rate, in a structural vector autoregression, with Indian data […]
IGIDR Working Paper : TIME-VARYING SPECTRAL ANALYSIS : THEORY AND APPLICATIONS
NO : WP-2018-025 AUTHOR : D.M.Nachane TITLE :TIME-VARYING SPECTRAL ANALYSIS : THEORY AND APPLICATIONS ABSTRACT : Non-stationary time series are a frequently observed phenomenon in several applied fields, particularly physics, engineering and economics. The conventional way of analysing such series has been via stationarity inducing filters. This can interfere with the […]
IGIDR Working Paper : TRANSFORMATION OF INDIAN AGRICULTURE? Growth,Inclusiveness and Sustainability
NO : WP-2018-026 AUTHOR : S. Mahendra Dev TITLE :TRANSFORMATION OF INDIAN AGRICULTURE? Growth,Inclusiveness and Sustainability ABSTRACT : There are three goals of agricultural development in India. These are: (a) achieving high growth by raising productivity; (b) inclusiveness by focusing on lagging regions, small farmers and women; and (c) sustainability of […]
