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Statistical analysis of Greek sovereign debt denominated in gold and traded on the London Stock Exchange from the outbreak of the First World War until the advent of the Great Depression is employed to explore the way that historical events including political and institutional changes shaped...
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This paper studies the asset pricing implications of a general equi-librium model in which real investment is reversible at a cost. Firmsface higher costs in contracting than in expanding their capital stockand decide to invest when their productive capital is scarce relativeto the overall...
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A large literature studies the predictability of stock returns by other lagged nancialvariables in a predictive regression setting. A common feature of widely used testingprocedures is a failing robustness, which may lead to misleading conclusions determinedby the particular features of a small...
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Access to safe water is necessary for lives and livelihoods. In India, a mid-term assessment reveals that the country … factors constrain access to safe drinking water and proper sanitation in India for both the urban and rural poor, and that …
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It is often assumed that recent success in the high-technology software industry will lead India's development. However … development pattern in India. …
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communication technology (ICT) use for broad-based development and economic growth in India. It will examine the role of …
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reference to China and India, with their very distinctive public policy approaches. Much of the economics literature either does …
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Economic policy and policy reform over the last few decades has been motivated by the need to accelerate growth or equivalently to reverse a decline in growth rate. The economic literature on the determinants of growth has burgeoned and disagreement has followed consensus on the policy...
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The paper looks into the level of integration of commodity markets in India, across centres and states using consumer … price data. It measures the extent to which domestic markets for goods in India are integrated, and recommends policy … methodology proposed by Bradford and Lawrence (2004) on the consumer prices of goods in major states across India. This is then …
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The present paper presents the supply and demand trends of rice, wheat, total cereals, pulses, edible oil/oilseeds and sugar/sugarcane. It provides the demand and supply projections for food items during 2011, 2021 and 2026. These projections have been based on change in productivity levels,...
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