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Using firm level data from India, we examine the impact of ownership concentration on post-M&A performance of firms …
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This paper uses data on elected village councils in South India to examine the political economy of public resource …
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occurred between January and September 2003 in 127 functioning village parliaments (gram sabhas) in Southern India. We exploit … a natural experiment in the arrangement of India's state borders across ethnolinguistic lines that led exogenously to … together, our results suggest that India's village parliaments, rather than being mere talking shops or being entirely captured …
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While the regulation of tenancy arrangements is widespread in the developing world, evidence on how such regulation influences the long-run allocation of land and labor remains limited. To provide such evidence, this paper exploits quasi-random assignment of linguistically similar areas to...
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We propose the use of stochastic frontier approach to modelling financial constraints of firms. The main advantage of the stochastic frontier approach over the stylised approaches that use pooled OLS or fixed effects panel regression models is that we can not only decide whether or not the...
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context of India where the industrial policies of the eighties and the nineties are widely believed to be pro-incumbent and …
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factors governing entry rates, especially in the context of developing countries. Using 3-digit industry level data from India … institutional and legacy factors. We also find evidence to suggest that, in India, entry rates were positively associated with …
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examines the impact of M & A on profitability of firms in India, where the corporate landscape is dominated by family-owned and … results indicate that, during the 1995-2002 period, M & A in India led to deterioration in firm performance. We also find that …-owned and group affiliated firms in India. …
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state and federal levels in India. As a consequence, significant intercaste and inter-religion differences in earnings have …-religion earnings in India during the 1987-99 period, using the 43rd and 55th rounds of National Sample Survey (NSS). Our results …
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factors governing entry rates, especially in the context of developing countries. Using 3-digit industry level data from India … institutional and legacy factors. We also find evidence to suggest that, in India, entry rates were positively associated with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005566382