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Corporate Governance, Business Group Governance and Economic Development Traps

Dau, Luis - 2020

Every firm in a developed economy relies on the mere existence of countless other firms to keep prices competitive up and down all supply chains. Without this network externality, no firm forms; and without many firms, no network forms; locking in a low-income trap. Business group governance...

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Ferreting Out Tunneling : An Application to Indian Business Groups

Bertrand, Marianne - 2000

In many countries, controlling shareholders are accused of tunneling, transferring resources from companies where they have few cash flow rights to ones where they have more cash flow rights. Quantifying the extent of such tunneling, however, has proven difficult because of its illicit nature....

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Poor Quality Drugs and Global Trade : A Pilot Study

Bate, Roger - 2014

tuberculosis drug samples that claim to be made in India and were sold in Africa, India, and five mid-income non-African countries … in India or non-African countries. Since this finding is robust for manufacturer-drug fixed effects, one likely … explanation is that Indian pharmaceutical firms and/or their export intermediaries do indeed differentiate drug quality according …

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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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School inputs, household substitution, and test scores

Das, Jishnu (contributor) - 2011

school and household inputs, and test its predictions in two very different low-income country settings - Zambia and India …

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Do Patents Matter? : Empirical Evidence after GATT

Lanjouw, Jean O. - 2000

protection. We use new survey data from India, the results of interviews with industry, government and multinational institutions …

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Indian Manufacturing Industry : Elephant or Tiger? New Evidence on the Asian Miracle

Hulten, Charles R. - 1999

We estimate the rate of total factor productivity growth in Indian manufacturing industry for the period 1973-1992, and compare the results to those obtained by Young for the East Asian Tigers. We then interpret our results in light of Krugman's hypothesis that, because the Asian Miracle was...

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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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Emerging Market Business Groups, Foreign Investors, and Corporate Governance

Khanna, Tarun - 1999

-run business groups, domestic financial institutions, and foreign financial institutions. Using data from India in the early 1990s …

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Democratization, Elite Capture and Economic Development

Foster, Andrew D.; Rosenzweig, Mark Richard - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

We show using a theoretical framework that embeds a voting model in a general-equilibrium model of a rural economy with two interest groups defined by land ownership that the effects of democratization--a shift from control of public resources by the landed elite to a democratic regime with...

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