Pattern of entrepreneurial activities in India has undergone a sea change in the later half of the 20th century, more towards the end of it. From being a government dominated sector in the immediate post-independence scenario to a one with reasonable space for operation of private entrepreneurs,...

In this paper, we study how exogenously given social relations (e.g. friendship) among the firm owners/managers influence the formation of an R&D collaboration network among the firms. In our framework, firms, prior to competing in the market, invest in R&D collaborations with others which...

This paper examines how social network influences the choice behaviour of a rational individual. We consider a choice problem of a decision maker (e.g., employer, interviewer) who first shortlists a set of agents based on some objective criteria and then chooses the final set of agents based on...

In the measurement of multidimensional deprivation, dimensions of deprivation are often weighted by people using either their own implicit value judgements or data based statistical methods. Each of these methods has limitations. The weights based on implicit value judgements leave no scope for...