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Testing Limits to Policy Reversal : Evidence from Indian Privatizations
Dastidar, Siddhartha - 2010
We examine the effect of regime change on privatization using the 2004 election surprise in India. The pro-reform BJP … slated for definite privatization by the BJP dropped by 3.5 percent relative to private firms. Surprisingly, government …-controlled companies that were only under study for possible privatization fell by 7.5 percent relative to private firms. We interpret this …
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Private Returns to Public Office
Fisman, Raymond J. - 2012
We study the wealth accumulation of Indian parliamentarians using public disclosures required of all candidates since 2003. Annual asset growth of winners is on average 3 to 6 percentage points higher than runners-up. By performing a within-constituency comparison where both runner-up and winner...
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Trade in Business Services in General Equilibrium
Markusen, James R. - 2010
Trade in business services has been attracting attention from academic researchers, policy makers, and business journalists. While there are many anecdotes, there has been little in the way of formal theory applied to this issue. In this paper, we adapt a general model of fragmentation of...
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Emerging Market Business Groups, Foreign Investors, and Corporate Governance
Khanna, Tarun - 2010
-run business groups, domestic financial institutions, and foreign financial institutions. Using data from India in the early 1990s …
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Demographics and FDI : Lessons from China's One-Child Policy
Donaldson, John B. - 2018
to that of India, and, simultaneously, FDI inflows relative to GDP for China versus India declined. These observations … China relative to India. Our paper is a contribution to the nascent literature exploring demographic transitions and their …
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India'S Experience with Capital Flows : The Elusive Quest for a Sustainable Current Account Deficit
Shah, Ajay; Patnaik, Ila - 2021
From the early 1990s onwards, India has engaged in policies involving trade liberalisation, strong controls on debt …
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Learning Versus Stealing : How Important are Market-Share Reallocations to India's Productivity Growth?
Harrison, Ann E. - 2011
, firm-level data from India's organized manufacturing sector to show that market-share reallocations did play an important … role in aggregate productivity gains immediately following the start of India's trade reforms in 1991. However, aggregate … attributed to India's trade liberalization and FDI reforms. Finally, we construct a panel dataset that allows us to track firms …
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Collusive Investments in Technological Compatibility : Lessons from U.S. Railroads in the Late 19th Century
Gross, Daniel P. - 2019
Collusion is widely condemned for its negative effects on consumer welfare and market efficiency. In this paper, I show that collusion may also in some cases facilitate the creation of unexpected new sources of value. I bring this possibility into focus through the lens of a historical episode...
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Benchmark Regulation of Multiproduct Firms : An Application to the Rail Industry
Wilson, Wesley W. - 2018
A number of formerly regulated multiproduct industries have a transitional or permanent residual regulatory mandate to protect consumers from "excessive" prices. The legislation that deregulated most rail rates contains a statutory mandate for the regulator to protect shippers from "excessive"...
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Benchmark Regulation of Multiproduct Firms : An Application to the Rail Industry
Wilson, Wesley W. - 2018
A number of formerly regulated multiproduct industries have a transitional or permanent residual regulatory mandate to protect consumers from "excessive" prices. The legislation that deregulated most rail rates contains a statutory mandate for the regulator to protect shippers from "excessive"...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012907758