India. Between 1995 and 2009, 85 percent of coal-based generation capacity owned by state governments was unbundled from …

This paper examines the impact of the deregulation of compulsory industrial licensing in India on firm-size dynamics …

There are two commonly accepted views about command-and-control (CAC) environmental regulation. First, CAC delivers … examine India's experience and find evidence that CAC policies achieved substantial environmental benefits at a relatively low … cost. Constructing an establishment-level panel from 1998 to 2009, we find that the CAC regulations imposed by India …

) promotion in India to address this question. For 60 years, SSI promotion in India focused on reserving certain products for …, productivity, and wages of dismantling India's SSI reservations. We exploit variation in the timing of de-reservation across …

In collaboration with a state environmental regulator in India, we conducted a field experiment to raise the frequency … these results and recover the full costs of environmental regulation, we model the regulatory process as a dynamic discrete … costs of environmental regulation are largely reserved for extremely polluting plants. Applying the cost estimates to the …

results suggest reformed incentives for third-party auditors can improve their reporting and make regulation more effective …

and marketed a rainfall index insurance product across three states in India. Marketing agricultural insurance to both … the insurance market (which is the current regulatory practice in India and other developing countries), makes wage …

dropping. The lack of product dropping is consistent with the role of industrial regulation in India, which, like in many other … detailed firm-level data from India, we provide the first evidence on the patterns of multi-product firm production in a large …-section, multi-product firms in India look remarkably similar to their U.S. counterparts, confirming the predictions of recent …

Most conventional accounts of India's recent economic performance associate the pick-up in economic growth with the …