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Impact of changes in policy rate of interest on demand for bank credit is examined for seven emerging market economies … including India for the period 2002 to 2010. Panel data techniques are used after ruling out the presence of unit roots. The … results show that when other determinants, like domestic demand pressure, export demand and impact of stock market signals are …
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We report on a large randomized controlled trial of hospital insurance for above-poverty-line Indian households. Households were assigned to free insurance, sale of insurance, sale plus cash transfer, or control. To estimate spillovers, the fraction of households offered insurance varied across...
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examines three facets of urban India's housing demand using the latest available nationally representative household data on …Housing, particularly for low income urban households, is a long-standing challenge in India. In 2012, 96 per cent of … the all India urban housing shortage of 18.78 million was confined to low-income economic groups. This study empirically …
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Productivity growth in Indian manufacturing is an important driver of overall growth, yet the issues related to its measurement have still not been resolved. The issue of how to compute an aggregate productivity measure holds significance for two reasons: one, the productivity of a firm should...
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This paper uses the data envelopment analysis (DEA) based Malmquist productivity index to estimate total factor productivity growth (TFPG), technical change, and efficiency change for a panel of firms during the period 1991 to 2001 in 26 Indian manufacturing industries. The paper then analyses...
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In this paper, we tackle the dilemma of pruning versus proliferation in a vertically differentiated oligopoly under the assumption that some firms collude and control both the range of variants for sale and their corresponding prices, likewise a multiproduct firm. We analyse whether pruning...
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This paper introduces a number of game-theoretic tools to model collusive agreements among firms in vertically differentiated markets. I firstly review some classical literature on collusion between two firms producing goods of exogenous different qualities. I then extend the analysis to a...
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This paper uses willingness to pay (WTP) data from a field experiment in Hyderabad, India in 2013 to determine whether … relative to monetary WTP as income rises. Finally, a greater fraction of demand is comprised of the poor at non-monetary prices. …
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The paper presents a case for a phased rolling out of direct benefits transfer (DBT) for Food in India. By studying all …
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