This study investigates whether mortgage financing regulation unintentionally leads to minorities paying a higher loan …

This study investigates whether mortgage financing regulation unintentionally leads to minorities paying a higher loan …

estimate the causal effect of regionalist party representation on political violence in India and find that regionalist parties …

poverty gap, which is as high as 50 percentage points or more in some specific cases in Nepal, Pakistan, or India. The gap in … (e.g., India, Nepal, and Pakistan), in regional development (e.g., the Philippines) and the large urban-rural gap (e …

, which is as high as 50 percentage points or more in some specific cases in Nepal, Pakistan, or India. The gap in the latter … contribute to ethnic disadvantaged groups being poorer are the strongly persistent high inequalities in education (e.g., India …

study existing legislation and financial sector regulatory practices in India and to propose improvements. The FSLRC … submitted its report in 2013 and four of its members recorded dissenting notes. This paper examines the changes in regulation in … last section of the paper examines and comments on the principal FSLRC proposals to further develop India’s financial …

We employ loan-level data on over a million loans disbursed in India between 1995 and 2010 to understand how fast …-changing regulation impacted mortgage lending and risk. Our paper uses changes in regulatory treatment discontinuities associated with … loan size and leverage to detect regulation-induced loan delinquencies. We also find that an acceleration in the …

Financial regulation is a much debated topic for some time. The history of financial instruments started at a time when …. Financial derivatives are a sub species of financial instruments No internationally accepted principles for regulation of … judiciary regarding the regulation of financial instruments in general and financial derivatives in particular. The US, UK and …