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Deficient public infrastructure and private costs : evidence from a time-use survey for the water sector in India

Chakraborty, Lekha S. (contributor) - 2008

This paper presents new evidence on the links between public-infrastructure provisioning and time allocation related to the water sector in India. An analysis of time-use data reveals that worsening public infrastructure affects market work, with evident gender differentials. The results also...

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Fiscal deficit, capital formation, and crowding out in India : evidence from an asymmetric VAR model

Chakraborty, Lekha S. (contributor) - 2007

This paper analyzes the real (direct) and financial crowding out in India between 197071 and 200203. Using an asymmetric vector autoregressive (VAR) model, the paper finds no real crowding out between public and private investment; rather, complementarity is observed between the two. The...

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Interest rate determination in India : empirical evidence on fiscal deficit ; interest rate linkages and financial crowding out

Chakraborty, Lekha S. - 2012

Controlling for capital flows using the high-frequency macro data of a financially deregulated regime, this paper examines whether there is any evidence of the fiscal deficit determining the interest rate in the context of India. The period of analysis is FY 2006-07 (April) to FY 2011 (April)....

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"Engendering" intergovernmental transfers : is there a case for gender-sensitive horizontal fiscal equalization?

Anand, Abhishek; Chakraborty, Lekha S. - 2016

This paper seeks to evaluate whether a gender-sensitive formula for the inter se devolution of union taxes to the states makes the process more progressive. We have used the state-specific child sex ratio (the number of females per thousand males in the age group 0–6 years) as one of the...

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EU regional policy : its theoretical foundations and their policy conclusions revisited

Schmidt, Peter - 2014 - Draft

This paper reconsiders the theoretical foundations of EU regional policy in economics. It begins with a discussion of the line of thought of its prevalent explanation in equilibrium economics which is focusing on market failures as its key underpinning and which is the major toolkit of...

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The EU structural funds as a means to hamper migration

Schmidt, Peter - 2012

convergence or economic cohesion, respectively. Following this strand of theory no regional policy is needed to achieve … convergence among the regions or nations of a common market. Thus, comparing the two internal markets, the question comes up if … inhibiting internal migration, which is one of the key measures in achieving convergence among the nations in the Single European …

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EU regional policy and its theoretical foundations revisited

Schmidt, Peter - European Regional Science Association - 2014

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