NO:WP-2016-005 AUTHOR: K. P. Krishnan, Venkatesh Panchapagesan and Madalasa Venkataraman TITLE: Distortions in land markets and their implications to credit generation in India ABSTRACT: Land and buildings are a preferred collateral for lenders in India due to its ease of valuation and disposal in the event of default. Yet several […]
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IGIDR Working Paper :Evaluating India’s exchange rate regime under global shocks
NO : WP-2018-019 AUTHOR : Ashima Goyal TITLE : Evaluating India’s exchange rate regime under global shocks ABSTRACT : The paper assesses the performance of India’s managed float with respect to maintaining a real competitive exchange rate, its effect on trade, on stability of currency and financial markets, and on inflation. […]
IGIDR Working Paper :Towards a Tribunal Services Agency
IGIDR Working Paper :Towards a Tribunal Services Agency NO: WP-2016-006 AUTHOR: Pratik Datta TITLE: Towards a Tribunal Services Agency ABSTRACT: The performance of Indian tribunals has been unsatisfactory. Yet, policy-makers continue to rely heavily on tribunals to achieve their end objective. One example of this are the […]
IGIDR Working Paper :Women on Board and Performance of Family Firms: Evidence from India
NO:WP-2015-026 AUTHOR: Jayati Sarkar and Ekta Selarka TITLE: Women on Board and Performance of Family Firms: Evidence from India ABSTRACT: This paper provides evidence on the effect of women directors on the performance of family firms with a case study of India. Existing literature on the subject has primarily focused […]
IGIDR Working Paper: Honor and Stigma in Mechanisms for Environmental Protection
NO: WP-2016-017 AUTHOR: Prasenjit Banerjee, Rupayan Pal, and Jason F. Shogren TITLE: Honor and Stigma in Mechanisms for Environmental Protection ABSTRACT: Honor and stigma play a role in environmental protection. Environmental honors are bestowed on people and firms who go out of their way to do right by the environment. Similarly, environmental […]
IGIDR Working Paper: Intensive and Extensive Margins of Exports: What Can India Learn from China?
NO : WP-2017-002 AUTHOR :C. Veeramani, Lakshmi A, Prachi Gupta TITLE : Intensive and Extensive Margins of Exports: What Can India Learn from China? ABSTRACT : We decompose India’s export performance in manufactured products during 2000-2015 into changes at the intensive and extensive margins. India’s performance, along different margins, is compared […]
IGIDR Working Paper: Investment Choice with Managerial Incentive Schemes
NO : WP-2018-008 AUTHOR : Shubhro Sarkar and Suchismita Tarafdar TITLE : Investment Choice with Managerial Incentive Schemes ABSTRACT : In this paper we show that firms might get an additional strategic benefit from using marginal-cost-reducing investments in conjunction with a managerial incentive scheme. While both these instruments allow firms […]
IGIDR Working Paper: Role of Gender Gap in Economic Growth: Analysis on Developing Countries versus OECD Countries
NO : WP-2017-001 AUTHOR :Sanika Sulochani Ramanayake and Taniya Ghosh TITLE : Role of Gender Gap in Economic Growth: Analysis on Developing Countries versus OECD Countries ABSTRACT : This study investigates the effects of the gender gap on economic growth by using a composite gender gap index from the World […]
IGIDR Working Paper: WP-2018-012,WP-2018-013,WP-2018-14
NO : WP-2018-012 AUTHOR : Chandan Kumar TITLE :Opportunism and Hold-up in the Incomplete Public Private Partnership (PPP) Contracts ABSTRACT : Opportunism is a concern for contracts that are incomplete in the presence of bounded rationality and uncertainty. Since Public Private Partnership (PPP) contracts are incomplete, are these contracts prone […]
IGIDR Working Paper: “Domestic Value Added Content of India’s Exports: Estimates for 112 Sectors, 1999-2000 to 2012-13”
NO : WP-2017-008 AUTHOR :C Veeramani and Garima Dhir TITLE : Domestic Value Added Content of India’s Exports: Estimates for 112 Sectors, 1999-2000 to 2012-13 ABSTRACT : Using Input-Output (IO) analysis, this study provides the time series estimates of domestic value added (DVA) content of India’s merchandise and services exports for […]
