Several developing economies, such as India, that had implemented policy reforms towards market mechanism have been experiencing high economic growth. This paper brings out the factors that determine micro level firm level productivity in the context of a developing economy that had undertaken...

The paper uses panel data for Indian industries in the post-reform period to study the direct and indirect productivity effects at firm level generated by foreign investment. It finds no evidence that foreign investment directly increases firm-level productivity, nor that R&D spending is more...

Presence of externalities can be significant in the developing economies, which have been able to augment aggregate economic growth in response to policy reforms. The empirical results of this paper based on firm level panel data for 12 Indian industries indicate presence of external economies...

The paper provides a taxonomy of corrupt activities in terms of the source of illegal rent involved. It identifies two types of deterrent policies: discouraging and monitoring. Using these as tools, it analyses the probable effects of India's ongoing reforms and of her resourceful information...

Cooperatives as organizational arrangements of collective economic activity can break up interlocked capital, labour and output markets in rural areas and alleviate poverty. The recent parallel law on cooperatives provides an opportunity to take a fresh look at this issue. We discuss some basic...

This paper addresses the issue of how do domestic incumbent oligopoly firms, which functioned under the institutional conditions of protected markets and pervasive government intervention for a long period adjust to a relatively sudden change in market institutional conditions caused by market...

This note illustrates a recent empirical phenomenon, which warrants a re-examination of the intangible asset theory of multinational enterprises (MNEs). It analyses two case studies of financial services: credit cards and insurance products in a developing economy. The case studies show that in...

Until recently major part of FDI flows had been among developed economies with similar relative factor endowments, income levels and market institutions such as property rights regimes. Consequently, major theoretical streams of FDI in economics could simplify FDI as a substitute for...