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Fiscal Rules in India : Are They Effective?

Buiter, Willem H. - 2010

, considers India's experience with fiscal (responsibility) rules during the past decade. After reviewing the basic facts … concerning public debt and deficits in India, the background and basic arithmetic of the Fiscal Responsibility and Budget …

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Does management matter? : evidence from India

Bloom, Nicholas Dagen (contributor) - 2011

"A long-standing question in social science is to what extent differences in management cause differences in firm performance. To investigate this we ran a management field experiment on large Indian textile firms. We provided free consulting on modern management practices to a randomly chosen...

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Trade Policy and Industrial Sector Responses : Using Evolutionary Models to Interpret the Evidence

Erdem, Erkan - 2003

Firm- and plant-level empirical studies typically find that trade liberalization squeezes price-cost margins among import-competing firms, that this heightened competitive pressure induces productivity gains among these same firms, and that further efficiency gains come from market share...

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Lack of Selection and Limits to Delegation : Firm Dynamics in Developing Countries

Akcigit, Ufuk - 2016

. We calibrate the model to firm-level data from the U.S. and India. We show that the model is quantitatively consistent … quantitative analysis shows that the low efficiency of delegation in India can account for 5% of productivity and 15% of income … differences between the U.S. and India in steady state. We also show that such inefficient delegation possibilities reduce the …

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The Life Cycle of Plants in India and Mexico

Hsieh, Chang-Tai - 2012

intermediate to India and the U.S. in these respects: the average 40 year old Mexican plant employs twice as many workers as an … aggregate manufacturing productivity on the order of 25% in India and Mexico relative to the U.S …

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Does Management Matter? Evidence from India

Bloom, Nicholas - 2011

A long-standing question in social science is to what extent differences in management cause differences in firm performance. To investigate this we ran a management field experiment on large Indian textile firms. We provided free consulting on modern management practices to a randomly chosen...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012461999

Quality Certification and the Economics of Contract Software Development A Study of the Indian Software Industry

Arora, Ashish - 1999

A significant amount of software development is being outsourced to countries such as India. Many Indian software firms …

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The Impacts of Managerial Autonomy on Firm Outcomes

Kala, Namrata - 2019

Enterprises (SOEs) in India. The program gave managers (the board of directors) of profitable SOEs more autonomy over strategic …

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Government Guarantees and Bank Vulnerability during a Crisis : Evidence from an Emerging Market

Acharya, Viral V. - 2019

We analyze the performance of Indian banks during 2007-09 relative to their vulnerability to a crisis measured using pre-crisis data, in order to study the impact of government guarantees on bank performance during a crisis. Using bank branch-level regulatory data, we exploit geographic...

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CEO Behavior and Firm Performance

Bandiera, Oriana - 2017

We measure the behavior of 1,114 CEOs in six countries parsing granular CEO diary data through an unsupervised machine learning algorithm. The algorithm uncovers two distinct behavioral types: "leaders" and "managers". Leaders focus on multi-function, high-level meetings, while managers focus on...

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