We seek to develop a recommender system that takes into account supply chain constraints regarding the availability of a product while nudging the customers to purchase it. The motivation to study this problem was because a firm faced availability constraints for one of its products but the...

With cashless transactions gaining momentum in developing countries, understanding the impacts of payment-system development on the real economy becomes essential. In this paper, we exploit India's demonetization shock to estimate the degree of payment-system development in India and rely on a...

Leasing is one of the most important sources of external finance to corporate firms. This paper develops a dynamic model to investigate the role of uncertainty and financial constraint in understanding the leasing decisions of corporate firms. The model predicts that firms with high uncertainty...

We explore the significance of political connections vs. productivity for firms' domestic sales and export performance in developing countries, using the data from the listed firms in China's Shanghai and Shenzhen stock markets. We estimate firms' total factor productivity and manually build a...

While the COVID-19 pandemic has intensified counter-urban migration trends globally, with rural areas often portrayed as ideal havens, the post-migration realities and risks faced by rural in-migrants remain understudied. Addressing this research gap, this research investigates the neighborhood...