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Portfolio construction, management and protection
Strong, Robert A. - 1993
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004186260
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Do voters demand responsive governments? Evidence from Indian disaster relief
Cole, Shawn; Healy, Andrew; Werker, Eric - In: Journal of Development Economics 97 (2012) 2, pp. 167-181
Using rainfall, public relief, and election data from India, we examine how governments respond to adverse shocks and how voters react to these responses. The data show that voters punish the incumbent party for weather events beyond its control. However, fewer voters punish the ruling party...
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Does the institution of State Business Relations matter for Firm Performance? – A study of Indian Manufacturing
Kathuria, Vinish; Natarajan, Rajesh Raj; Sen, Kunal - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
This paper examines the role of the external institutional environment captured by effective state-business relations on firm performance. By effective state-business relations, we mean a set of highly institutionalized, responsive and public interactions between the state and the business...
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Can India Achieve Double-digit growth ?
Herd, Richard; Conway, Paul; Hill, Sam; Koen, Vincent; … - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2011
In recent years, India has enjoyed one of the highest growth rates worldwide, weathering the global financial crisis better than many other countries. Prudent macroeconomic policies will be critical to prolonging the current expansion, given the risks associated with high inflation and volatile...
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Patterns of Specialization and (Un)conditional Convergence: The Cases of Brazil, China and India
Hadengue, Marine; Warin, Thierry - Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Analyse des … - 2013
The purpose of this paper is to highlight a version of the Balassa-Samuelson effect for emerging countries with a new dataset. More than the catching-up effect, we will measure the convergence for three emerging countries: Brazil/China/India. We will compare the convergence between these...
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Crime and Economic Growth: Evidence from India
Kumar, Surender - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
This paper empirically examines the causality between crime rates and economic growth using state level data in India. A reduced form equation has been estimated using instrumental variable approach to correct for joint endogeneity between crime and economic growth. Higher crimes may reduce...
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Motivations for US Foreign Direct Investment
Buoninfante, Christina - 2009
US and host country’s economies and FDI into each sector. This supports the cash flow diversification theory, which …
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Export intensity and financial leverage of Indian firms
Goldman, Elena; Viswanath, P.V. - In: International Journal of Trade and Global Markets 4 (2011) 2, pp. 152-171
expect export-intensive firms to have greater cashflow stability due to diversification; this implies that they would also be … assets, which allow them to increase their profitability; this would suggest a lower debt ratio. The diversification and …
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Why do business groups continue to matter? A study of market failure and performance among Indian manufacturers
Ramaswamy, Kannan; Li, Mingfang; Petitt, Barbara - In: Asia Pacific Journal of Management 29 (2012) 3, pp. 643-658
impact of group affiliation and diversification both before and after economic reforms were introduced in the country … important positive moderating effect on the diversification-performance relationship. However, these group benefits appear to … be indicative of the continued relevance of non-diversification benefits of the group structure in emerging economies. It …
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Non-farm diversification and rural poverty decline: a perspective from Indian sample survey and village study data
Himanshu, Himanshu; Lanjouw, Peter; Mukhopadhyay, Abhiroop - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2011
, it is only relatively recently that rural poverty decline has become strongly linked to diversification of the village …
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