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Working Paper: Agrarian Distress in India: Possible Solutions
NO: WP-2019-017 AUTHOR: Barendra Kumar Bhoi and C.L. Dadhich TITLE: Agrarian Distress in India: Possible Solutions ABSTRACT: Agrarian distress in India, built-up over time, has further deteriorated recently. At the height of the farm output, Indian farmers are a disappointed lot. Despite spectacular rise in agricultural production, they continue to languish in […]
Working Paper: Determinants of Firm-Level Investment in India: Does Size Matter?
NO: WP-2019-016 AUTHOR: Parul Bhardwaj and Abhishek Kumar TITLE: Determinants of Firm-Level Investment in India: Does Size Matter? ABSTRACT: The study estimates the dynamic panel version of augmented neoclassical investment model using ARDL specification. There are evidences in support of interest rate and credit channels of monetary transmission, both in the short […]
Working Paper: Where Have All the Factories Gone? : Growth and Concentration of Sub-National Manufacturing Activity in India
NO: WP-2019-015 AUTHOR: K.V.Ramaswamy TITLE: Where Have All the Factories Gone? : Growth and Concentration of Sub-National Manufacturing Activity in India ABSTRACT: The spatial distribution of manufacturing across the states of India is analyzed covering the period 2004-05 to 2015-16. We found that the spatial concentration of manufacturing activity has increased […]
Seminar: Mechanism Design in Single Dimensional Type Spaces
Seminar at IGIDR by Dr. Abdul Quadir, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi. Date & Hour: 27 May 2019, 4:00 pm Venue: Seminar Hall 1 Title: Mechanism Design in Single Dimensional Type Spaces Abstract: We consider a class of mechanism design problems in private value environment where the type of an […]
IGIDR Working Paper: “Measuring electoral competitiveness: A probability ratio index”
NO: WP-2019-014 AUTHOR: Satya R. Chakravarty, Manipushpak Mitra, Suresh Mutuswami and Rupayan Pal TITLE: Measuring electoral competitiveness: A probability ratio index ABSTRACT: We propose an index of electoral competition based on the vote shares of parties competing in the election. This index is the ratio between the probabilities that the two voters […]
IGIDR Working Paper: External Debt Financing and Macroeconomic Instability in Emerging Market Economies
NO: WP-2019-013 AUTHOR: Ashima Goyal, Rajeswari Sengupta and Akhilesh Verma TITLE: External Debt Financing and Macroeconomic Instability in Emerging Market Economies ABSTRACT: We study the relationship between external debt financing and risk to macroeconomic stability using a panel vector autoregression model for a sample of ten major emerging market economies. We also […]
Online Examination Results for the M.Sc./M.Phil/Ph.D. Programme 2019
1. Online Examination Results for the M.Phil/Ph.D. Programme 2019 2. Online Examination Results for the M.Sc. Programme 2019