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Bel, Germà; Fageda, Xavier - EconWPA - 2005

Spain is the only large European country in which airport management is strictly centralized and publicly owned. This peculiar institutional setting prevents competition among Spanish airports, and policy makers and bureaucrats in charge of the system regularly justify it on grounds of...

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Growth and Convergence across the US: Evidence from County-Level Data

Higgins, Matthew; Levy, Daniel; Young, Andrew - EconWPA - 2005

We use county data with 3,058 observations to study growth and convergence in the US. We assess the effect of 40 conditioning variables on the counties’ balanced growth paths. Using OLS and 3SLS-IV, the later yielding consistent estimates, we report estimates for the full sample and for metro,...

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Stakeholders, Bargaining and Strikes

Manzini, Paola; Ponsati', Clara - EconWPA - 2001

We study bilateral bargaining problems with interested third parties, the stakeholders that enjoy benefits upon a bilateral agreement. We explore the strategic implications of this third party involvement. Our main finding is that the potential willigness of the stake holders to make...

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Birth Spacing and Child Survival: Comparative Evidence from India and Pakistan

Maitra, Pushkar; Pal, Sarmistha - EconWPA - 2004

This paper examines the two-way relationship between birth interval and child survival and compares the behaviour of households in the Indian and Pakistani provinces of Punjab. Birth interval and child survival are modelled here as correlated hazard processes, allowing for mother- specific...

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After the "License Raj": Economic Liberalization and Aggregate Private Investment in India

Emran, M. Shahe; Alam, M. Imam; Shilpi, Forhad - EconWPA - 2003

theoretically consistent manner, this paper presents evidence on the effects of economic liberalization of 1991 in India. Two robust …

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Labor Conflict and Foreign Investments: An Analysis of FDI in India

Menon, Nidhiya; Sanyal, Paroma - EconWPA - 2005

This paper analyzes patterns of foreign direct investment in India. We investigate how labor conflict, credit … decisions and labor unrest simultaneously. Results indicate that labor unrest is endogenous across the states of India, and has …

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Sustainability of Services-Led Growth: An Input Output Exploration of the Indian Economy

Hansda, Sanjay - EconWPA - 2005

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Technology as a channel of economic growth in India

Chakraborty, Suparna - EconWPA - 2005

for observed ‡uctuations in macro economic aggregates in India. We find that exogenous fl‡uctuations in productivity can …

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Does Ownership Structure Influence Firm Value? Evidence from India

Kumar, Jayesh - EconWPA - 2004

This paper examines the effect of ownership structure on the firm performance for an unbalanced panel of 2478 Indian corporate firms from 1994 to 2000. We examine the effect of interactions between corporate, foreign, institutional, and managerial ownership on firm performance. Using panel data...

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INDIAN VENTURE CAPITALISTS (VCs) INVESTMENT EVALUATION CRITERIA

Mishra, Asim - EconWPA - 2005

The Venture capital (VC) industry in India is of recent origin. However, the average investment value of each deal in … India have grown from $3.85 million in 2000 to $7.89 million in 2001.These developments together with the recent steps taken … by government to promote venture capitalism in India provide an opportunity for an examination of venture capital …

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