Using transaction-level data on Canadian mortgage contracts we document an increase in the average discount negotiated off the posted price and in rate dispersion. Our aim is to identify the beneficiaries of discounting and to test whether dispersion is caused by price discrimination. The...

Acrimonious relations between employers and employees in developing countries have often been cited as impediments to progress. This paper considers various measures of labor disputes, and investigates whether these have detrimental effects on the location choice of new domestic investment...

This paper examines the growth of dynamic capabilities among firms in the Indian software industry by looking in some detail at the changing constraints, opportunities and competition facing incumbent firms. It emphasises the important role played by tight labour market conditions in inducing...

The Indian software industry appears to provide a startling confirmation of the benefits of multinational investment in a fledgling industrial sector. The main question explored in this paper is how and why this happened. We find that multinational firms had an important catalysing effect on the...

The segmentation of global manufacturing and services provided China and subsequently India with a golden opportunity to make full use of their absolute advantage low cost yet educated labour to integrate into the world economy within a comparatively shorter period of time than some earlier...

The segmentation of global manufacturing and services provided China and subsequently India with a golden opportunity to make full use of their absolute advantage low cost yet educated labour to integrate into the world economy within a comparatively shorter period of time than some earlier...

The present study seeks to examine the impact of microfinance and other socio-economic factors on women empowerment as viewed from their participation in decision making, income as well as employment generation activities. The findings of the study based on a field study conducted in two...

The research paper intends to interpret how the three forms of family capital viz. family's financial capital, family's man power capital and family’s human capital influences the career choice intention of students of HEI's of Uttarakhand, India. Additionally the study also evaluates the...

Since the global financial crisis, corporate investment has been weak in India. Sluggish corporate investment would not only moderate growth from the demand side but also constrain growth from the supply side over time. Against this background, this paper analyzes the reasons for the slowdown...

Micro Finance Institutions (MFI's) have been most successful in lending to women's self-help or solidarity groups. Although MFI's do lend to individuals as well as to other groups, composed of men or including men, by far most of their lending is to self-help groups of poor women. As a result,...