Automobile and auto-ancillary manufacturing in India is highly concentrated, with four auto clusters receiving approximately 91% of the total Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in this sector. Technological spillovers, factor endowments, etc., were identified as some of the factors influencing firm...

We analyze data from experimental auctions of orange maize in rural Zambia using the Becker-deGroot-Marschak (BDM) mechanism to estimate the willingness-to-pay (WTP) for the maize. Further, BDM data is combined with first-price auction data to estimate individual risk attitudes. The orange maize...

We use the monetary model of exchange rate determination to generate in-sample and out-of-sample forecasts of the Rupee-Dollar exchange rate. The assumptions of flexible prices and maintenance of Purchasing Power Parity implies that the domestic price level and the exchange rate are endogenously...

Housing rents are a major part of a slum household’s expenditure.I exploit a large scale ’big-push’ national urban renewal policyreform in India between 2005 and 2012 to empirically evaluate themulti-dimensional effect of rental reforms and housing provisions onhome ownership, rental...

User costs of housing are a major part of a household’s expenditure.I empirically investigate the heterogeneous impact of an unanticipatedexpansionary monetary policy on housing markets and householdtenurial decision by exploiting the user cost of housing channel.Drawing on a Swiss household...