Author: Ashima Goyal Title: What does the COVID-19 experience tell us about Indian growth drivers? Abstract: In India’s battle with Covid-19, recovery was largely under-predicted and financial sector distress over-predicted. The slowdown through the 2010s led to the view that structural features limit growth and financial sector malfunction lowers monetary transmission. Therefore the […]
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Herd immunity, COVID-19 and vaccination: some propositions
Author: Srijit Mishra Title: Herd immunity, COVID-19 and vaccination: some propositions Abstract: In the herd immunity path to COVID-19, the scientific world has two broad positions. The Great Barrington declaration called for allowing low-risk population to start activities so that other overriding public health concerns beyond COVID-19 and livelihood aspects of the underprivileged […]
on Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) – Nov 24, 2021 at 4.15 pm
Webinar on Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) Date: Wednesday, November 24, 2021 Time: 4.15 pm to 5.45 pm. Topic: Copyright, Fair Use, and Open Access Speaker: Dr. Arul George Scaria, Associate Professor, National Law University, New Delhi Inauguration by: Prof. S. Mahendra Dev, Director, IGIDR You may please join LIVE @ https://youtu.be/IVViu9mRFS4
Methodological and Ethical Concerns in a Study on Effect of COVID-19 Vaccine among Health Care Workers in a Medical College of India
Author: Srijit Mishra Title: Methodological and Ethical Concerns in a Study on Effect of COVID-19 Vaccine among Health Care Workers in a Medical College of India Abstract: A critical look into the nature of observational data from a study on effect of COVID-19 vaccine of health care workers points out […]
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Analysing India’s Exchange Rate Regime
Author: Ila Patnaik and Rajeswari Sengupta Title: Analysing India’s Exchange Rate Regime Abstract: We analyse India’s exchange rate regime through the prism of exchange market pressure. We estimate the various regimes that India’s exchange rate has been through during the period from 2000 to 2020. We find four specific regimes of the Indian […]
Measuring monetary policy shocks in India
Author: Aeimit Lakdawala and Rajeswari Sengupta Title: Measuring monetary policy shocks in India Abstract: We create new measures of monetary policy shocks for India using high-frequency derivatives data and study their transmission. These shocks capture two distinct dimensions of the Reserve Bank of India’s (RBI) monetary policy announcements. In addition […]
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Strategic Inattention and Divisionalization in Duopoly
Author: Promit Kanti Chaudhuri Title: Strategic Inattention and Divisionalization in Duopoly Abstract: In this paper, a differentiated product economy is modeled where firms strategically set up autonomous rival divisions and the divisions play the quantity competition game `a la Cournot or by means of monopolistic competition, where the divisions are unaware of the […]
