This paper provides an analysis of India’s existing regulatory regime and its evolution over the last 25 years, and the … efforts to improve the regulatory framework as India has transitioned towards a market economy. The paper argues that while … India has implemented many sector specific regulatory reforms, the absence of a government wide initiative to improve …

Papers presented at the national conference on regulatory performance in India: achievements, constraints and ruture …

We employ loan-level data on over a million loans disbursed in India between 1995 and 2010 to understand how fast …-changing regulation impacted mortgage lending and risk. Our paper uses changes in regulatory treatment discontinuities associated with … loan size and leverage to detect regulation-induced loan delinquencies. We also find that an acceleration in the …

and marketed a rainfall index insurance product across three states in India. Marketing agricultural insurance to both … the insurance market (which is the current regulatory practice in India and other developing countries), makes wage … the welfare costs of current regulation are borne by landless laborers, who represent the poorest segment of society and …