One simple question - why people buy houses - is perhaps one of the most recurring and intriguing themes on research surface in housing. In the US, nearly two-thirds of the population owns houses (Tracy and Schneider (2001)). Optimal decision-making entails efficient risk management or hedging...

This study looks into various sources of financing infrastructure and the demands for infrastructure investments and highlights the mismatch between demand and supply of funds for infrastructure financing in India. In order to address this mismatch, and given the constraints of traditional...

Minimisation of damage from the rising trend of global warming would warrant two kinds of action for a country like India: (i) abatement of Green House Gas (GHG) emissions, (ii) adaptation to climate change to reduce climate change related vulnerability of the people. The target of low-carbon...