Do Indian business group owned Mutual Funds maximize value for their investors?
One always wonders how India’s Business groups perform in their finance ventures? Do we see conflicts of interest as in funds are channeled to the groups from their finance entities? In this paper,...
View ArticleCompetition commission of India’s first five years..
Nice to read an article which talks about an institution which is largely ignored from discussion- Competition commission of India. CCI recently completed its five years and the author reviews this...
View ArticleEconomic History and Economic Development: New Economic History in Retrospect...
Peter Temin, eminent econ historian has this food for thought paper. He points to this interesting comparison of econ history and econ development. Former looks at high wage econs and latter at low...
View ArticleBuilding Business histories of emerging economies
HBSWK points to this really exciting project by HBS on business history in emerging markets. The article says: The corporate histories of Apple, Coca-Cola, and Honda are well-documented stories that...
View ArticleEconomics of Political leaders favoring their preferred regions
An interesting article (hugely relevant to India) in voxeu by Roland Hodler and Paul Raschk. They point to how politicians favor their regions: Many political leaders favour their preferred regions. An...
View ArticleIndia’s Political Parties – A book review
India has been in politics mode for quite sometime now. Given the noise, one is always interested in understanding things a lot deeper than what us thrown at you from the media galleries. Came across...
View ArticleSimplifying tax filling and increasing compliance — a behavioral experiment
Jan-Emmanuel De Neve and Cait Lamberton explain this simple way to simplify taxes and increasing compliance. They say by making taxpayers more voice in the whole exercise of taxes generates positive...
View ArticleProfile of Chris Pissarides and review of his work on labor economics…
IMF has a great review of an economist who is hardly known – Chris Pissarides. And this despite getting “the prize” on the topic “which is one the most relevant” – labor markets. The interview has...
View ArticleDid German Jewish emigrants help spur innovation in US?
Petra Moser of Stanford University looks at the issue and debate around it in this Cato research note. The note is based on a paper by written by the author along with others. In all their research...
View ArticlePJ Nayak Committee report… How can such reports be written in 2014?
For a moment, I could not believe we could have such a report written in year 2014! After seeing what has happened in last 5-6 years, to have a report which says bank governance will improve if we...
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