NO : WP-2018-015 AUTHOR : Madhuparna Ganguly and Rupayan Pal TITLE : Signaling through Public Antitrust Enforcement: A Generalization ABSTRACT : This note shows that the argument of Saljanin(2017) [Saljanin, 2017. Signaling through publicantitrust enforcement, Economics Letters 169, 4 – 6] that public antitrust enforcement complements private investment is robust […]
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IGIDR Working Paper: WP-2018-012,WP-2018-013,WP-2018-14
NO : WP-2018-012 AUTHOR : Chandan Kumar TITLE :Opportunism and Hold-up in the Incomplete Public Private Partnership (PPP) Contracts ABSTRACT : Opportunism is a concern for contracts that are incomplete in the presence of bounded rationality and uncertainty. Since Public Private Partnership (PPP) contracts are incomplete, are these contracts prone […]
Visiting Student Programme 2018 – List of selected students
Visiting Student Programme 2018 – Names of 10 Students selected S. No. Name Name of Institution 1. Deepanshi Gilhotra TERI University, Delhi 2. Gaibul Preet University of Hyderabad 3. Heena Sharma IIT, Roorkee 4. Komal Pahilajani University of Rajasthan 5. Meera Ancy Vincent Pondicherry University 6. Nidhi Gyan Pandey […]
Workshop on Mechanism Design and Auctions on Monday – 9th April, 2018
Workshop on Game Theory, Auctions, Mechanism Design and Operations Research Monday, April 9th, 2018 Workshop Program Session 1 SEANZA HALL 9:00 am to 10:00 am: Umang Bhaskar (TIFR) Title: Bounds on the Welfare of Truthful Voting Mechanisms 10:00 am to 11:00 am Prof. Gaurav Kasbekar (IITB) Title: Truthful […]
IGIDR Working Paper: Green firm, brown production
NO : WP-2018-011 AUTHOR : Rupayan Pal, A.M.T. Hussain and Prasenjit Banerjee TITLE : Green firm, brown production ABSTRACT : In a theoretical model of an environmentally conscious (“green”) monopolist, we show that increasing greenness does not always mean lower output and environmental damages. We assume that a green firm […]
IGIDR Working Paper: The Indian Fiscal-Monetary Framework: Dominance or Coordination?
NO : WP-2018-010 AUTHOR : Ashima Goyal TITLE : The Indian Fiscal-Monetary Framework: Dominance or Coordination? ABSTRACT : The worldwide move to constrain monetary and fiscal policy using rules is creating a switch from fiscal towards monetary dominance. India also implemented flexible inflation targeting and fiscal responsibility legislation. The theoretical […]
IGIDR Working Paper:A new model of mergers and innovation
NO : WP-2018-009 AUTHOR : Piuli Roy Chowdhury TITLE : A new model of mergers and innovation ABSTRACT : This paper reexamines the impact of merger on innovation. Unlike as in Federico et al (2017), it considers the scenario where merged firms combine their research labs. It shows that, in […]
IGIDR Working Paper: Investment Choice with Managerial Incentive Schemes
NO : WP-2018-008 AUTHOR : Shubhro Sarkar and Suchismita Tarafdar TITLE : Investment Choice with Managerial Incentive Schemes ABSTRACT : In this paper we show that firms might get an additional strategic benefit from using marginal-cost-reducing investments in conjunction with a managerial incentive scheme. While both these instruments allow firms […]
Visiting Scholars Program 2018
IGIDR Working Paper: The Growth Slowdown and the Working of Inflation Targeting in India
NO : WP-2018-007 AUTHOR : Ashima Goyal TITLE : The Growth Slowdown and the Working of Inflation Targeting in India ABSTRACT : The paper presents a variety of indicators to show that demand constrained output during the period of growth slowdown 2011-17. It also draws on research to show the […]
