currency borrowing in emerging markets. Using detailed firm-level data from India, we show that propensity to issue foreign … currency debt for the same firm is higher when the difference in short-term interest rates between India and the US is higher …

This paper estimates a household saving rate equation for India and Korea using long-term time series data for the 1975 … impact on the household saving rate in both India and Korea, even after controlling for the usual suspects such as the aged … and youth dependency ratios and income. It has a negative impact in India, where the bride's side has to pay substantial …

aggregate household saving rates in Japan, China, and India. The observed age distributions help explain the contrasting saving … saving rates, while decreasing family size increases saving for both China and India. Projecting forward, the model predicts …

In 30 villages, we randomly assign monitors to a subset of savers. An average monitor increases total savings by 35 …%. Increasing the monitor's network centrality by one standard deviation increases savings by 14%, and increasing proximity from … social distance three to two increases savings by 16% …