NO : WP-2017-014 AUTHOR : Ashima Goyal and Akhilesh Verma TITLE :Slowdown in bank credit growth: Aggregate demand or bank non-performing assets? ABSTRACT : This paper tests the bank lending channel against the aggregate demand channel as an explanation for slow credit growth by estimating the determinants of credit and of non- […]
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IGIDR Working Paper: Technological Change, Automation and Employment: A Short Review of Theory and Evidence
NO : WP-2018-002 AUTHOR : K.V.Ramaswamy TITLE : Technological Change, Automation and Employment: A Short Review of Theory and Evidence ABSTRACT : A selective survey of recent papers in the area of technological change, automation and employment is presented. The objective is to convey analytical ideas and the empirical evidence […]
IGIDR Working Paper: The Growth Slowdown and the Working of Inflation Targeting in India
NO : WP-2018-007 AUTHOR : Ashima Goyal TITLE : The Growth Slowdown and the Working of Inflation Targeting in India ABSTRACT : The paper presents a variety of indicators to show that demand constrained output during the period of growth slowdown 2011-17. It also draws on research to show the […]
IGIDR Working Paper: The Indian Fiscal-Monetary Framework: Dominance or Coordination?
NO : WP-2018-010 AUTHOR : Ashima Goyal TITLE : The Indian Fiscal-Monetary Framework: Dominance or Coordination? ABSTRACT : The worldwide move to constrain monetary and fiscal policy using rules is creating a switch from fiscal towards monetary dominance. India also implemented flexible inflation targeting and fiscal responsibility legislation. The theoretical […]
IGIDR Working Paper: The long road to transformation of agricultural markets in India: Lessons from Karnataka
NO : WP-2016-026 AUTHOR : Nidhi Aggarwal, Sargam Jain, Sudha Narayanan TITLE : The long road to transformation of agricultural markets in India: Lessons from Karnataka ABSTRACT : This paper examines Karnataka’s pioneering agricultural output marketing reforms with the twin goals of assessing the state and challenges of implementation and to […]
IGIDR Working paper: The Plutocratic Bias in the Indian CPI
NO : WP-2017-011 AUTHOR : Dilip M. Nachane, Aditi Chaubal TITLE : The Plutocratic Bias in the Indian CPI ABSTRACT : The Laspeyres-type consumer price index (CPI) is traditionally used to measure the changes in cost-of-living over time. Studies indicate this CPI suffers from a plutocratic bias, attaching greater weightage to expenditure […]
IGIDR Working Paper: Watching India’s insolvency reforms: a new dataset of insolvency cases
“This original paper, published on 31st August, 2017 on this website has been replaced on the realisation that some impertinent phrases were used in the paper. The paper was revised to remove the objectionable phrases, and the authors tender their unconditional apology to the Hon’ble National Company Law Tribunal for using […]
IGIDR WORKING PAPER: What Explains the Volatility of India’s Catch-up Growth?
NO : WP-2019-008 AUTHOR : Ashima Goyal TITLE : What Explains the Volatility of India’s Catch-up Growth? ABSTRACT : Indian post reform growth rates have been higher but more volatile compared to transition periods for other comparable countries. The reasons are aggravation of shocks due to unaddressed critical bottlenecks together […]
IGIDR WORKING PAPER: Women’s nutritional empowerment and their well-being Identifying key drivers in India and Bangladesh
NO : WP-2019-004 AUTHOR : Sudha Narayanan, Udayan Rathore, Mohit Sharma TITLE : Women’s nutritional empowerment and their well-being Identifying key drivers in India and Bangladesh ABSTRACT : This paper uses six nationally representative household surveys from India and Bangladesh to examine the link between women’s empowerment and their own nutritional […]
IGIDR Working Paper:A new model of mergers and innovation
NO : WP-2018-009 AUTHOR : Piuli Roy Chowdhury TITLE : A new model of mergers and innovation ABSTRACT : This paper reexamines the impact of merger on innovation. Unlike as in Federico et al (2017), it considers the scenario where merged firms combine their research labs. It shows that, in […]