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Cultural Proximity and Loan Outcomes
Fisman, Raymond; Paravisini, Daniel; Vig, Vikrant - eSocialSciences - 2012
data on the religion and caste of bank officers and borrowers from a bank in India, and a rotation policy that induces …
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Forecasting Profitability
Rosenzweig, Mark; Udry, Christopher - eSocialSciences - 2013
Newly-available Indian panel data is used to estimate how the returns to planting-stage investments vary by rainfall realizations. [BREAD Working Paper No. 392]. URL:[http://ipl.econ.duke.edu/bread/papers/working/392.pdf].
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Wastewater Irrigation, Heavy Metals and the Profitability of Rice Cultivation – Investigating the East Calcutta Wetlands in India
Mukherjee, Vivekananda; Gupta, Gautam - eSocialSciences - 2012
In India, as in many developing countries, wastewater is often used to irrigate crops. This undoubtedly helps to … to human health and may reduce the profitability of cultivated crops. The East Calcutta Wetlands have been a repository … activities. But how good is untreated water for agriculture and does wastewater affect the profitability of rice cultivation …
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Convergence Club Empirics: Some Dynamics and Explanations of Unequal Growth across Indian States
Bandyopadhyay, Sanghamitra - eSocialSciences - 2010
This paper documents the convergence of incomes across Indian states over the period 1965 to 1998. It departs from traditional analyses of convergence by tracking the evolution of the entire income distribution, instead of standard regression and time series analyses. The findings reveal...
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Graduating to Globalisation: A Study of Southern Multinationals
Shah, Ajay; Patnaik, Ila; Demirbas, Dilek - eSocialSciences - 2010
probit models, examining two key hypotheses using firm level panel data from India. First, it is tested whether there are …
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Labour and Energy Intensity: A Study of Pulp & Paper Industries in India
Narayanan, K.; Sahu, Santosh Kumar - eSocialSciences - 2010
industries in India. Further we found that higher labour intensive firms are more energy intensive. Profitability of the firm …
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Toxicity and Profitability of Rice Cultivation under Waste- Water Irrigation: The Case of the East Calcutta Wetlands
Mukherjee, Vivekananda; Gupta, Gautam - eSocialSciences - 2011
The paper reports the results of an empirical study on the profitability of rice cultivation in the East Calcutta … Wetlands region where untreated sewage water from the city of Calcutta, India, is used for the purpose of irrigation during the …
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The Impact of 1998 and 2008 Financial Crises on Profitability of Islamic Banks
AHMAD, NOR HAYATI BT; Noor, MOHAMAD AKBAR NOOR BIN MOHAMAD - eSocialSciences - 2012
The paper investigates the profitability of 78 Islamic banks in 25 countries for the period of 1992-2009. The Fixed … Effect Model (FEM) used to analyse profitability shows that profit efficiency is positive and statistically significant with …
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Intellectual Property Protection and the Licensing of Technology to Developing Countries
Kanwar, Sunil - eSocialSciences - 2010
In this paper, the influence of stronger intellectual property protection on technology transfer into developing countries via licensing is analyzed. Using panel data for the post-TRIPs period 1995-2005, it is found that stronger protection is associated with increased royalty and license fee...
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Impact of Preventive Health Care of Indian Industry and Economy
Chadha, Alka; Mehdi, Ali; Malik, Garima - eSocialSciences - 2007
profitability is examined. Recommendations are offered for policymakers and corporate management to promote preventive healthcare …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005528113