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OECD Agricultural Trade Reforms Impact on India's Prices and Producers Welfare

Mittal, Surabhi - 2007

equilibrium analysis. The four parts of this approximation are: first, the estimation of the world price effect of removal of OECD … (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development) distortions; second, estimation of the effects of changes in world prices … on domestic prices through a price transmission model; third, estimation of the impact on domestic production through a …

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India in the Global and Regional Trade: Determinants of Aggregate and Bilateral Trade Flows and Firms' Decision to Export

Srinivasan, T. N.; Archana, Vani - 2009

This paper contributes to two strands of literature on empirical models of trade flows and trade policy. The first and the older strand is that of gravity models of bilateral trade flows going back to Hans Linneman (1966) and Tinbergen (1962) and its recent applications, particularly by Adams et...

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Drivers of Academic Research and Patenting in India: Econometric Estimation of the Research Production Function

Ray, Amit Shovon; Saha, Sabyasachi - 2010

In this paper we attempt to provide a comprehensive understanding of the drivers of academic research and patenting in India. Academic research is conceptualised as a research production process where research inputs (like research time and number of research scholars) are transformed into...

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Money and politics: The effects of campaign spending limits on political competition and incumbency advantage

Avis, Eric; do Amaral, Claudio A. Ferraz; Finan, … - 2017

This paper examines the effects of campaign spending limits on political competition and incumbency advantage. We study a reform in Brazil that imposed limits on campaign spending for mayoral elections. These limits were implemented with a discontinuous kink which we exploit for causal...

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Cash, hoarding and the underground economy

Pickhardt, Michael; Sardà, Jordi - 2011

We further refine the Modified-Cash-Deposits-Ratio (MCDR) approach, developed by Pickhardt and Sardà (2011, 2012) with a view to analyze size and causes of the cash using section of the underground economy. Among other things, we address the issue of cash hoarding. Findings include that the...

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Early life conditions and financial risk-taking in older age

Christelis, Dimitris; Dobrescu, Loretti I.; Motta, Alberto - 2011

Using life-history survey data from eleven European countries, we investigate whether childhood conditions, such as socioeconomic status, cognitive abilities and health problems influence portfolio choice and risk attitudes later in life. After controlling for the corresponding conditions in...

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Going public - going private: The case of VC-backed firms

Gill, Andrej; Walz, Uwe - 2012

We investigate the decisions of listed firms to go private once again. We start by revealing that while a significant number of firms which go public is VC-backed, an overproportional share of these VC-backed firms go private later on (they stay on the exchange for an average of 8.5 years). We...

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Time and the price impact of a trade: A structural approach

Grammig, Joachim G.; Theissen, Erik; Wünsche, Oliver - 2011

We revisit the role of time in measuring the price impact of trades using a new empirical method that combines spread decomposition and dynamic duration modeling. Previous studies which have addressed the issue in a vector-autoregressive framework conclude that times when markets are most active...

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Limit order books and trade informativeness

Beltran-Lopez, Hélena; Grammig, Joachim G.; Menkveld, … - 2011

In the microstructure literature, information asymmetry is an important determinant of market liquidity. The classic setting is that uninformed dedicated liquidity suppliers charge price concessions when incoming market orders are likely to be informationally motivated. In limit order book...

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Transparency and emerging market bond spreads

Moretti, Laura - 2011

and Codes (ROSC). Using difference-in-difference estimation, I study the effect on the sovereign credit spreads for 18 …

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