• Financial Literacy, Human Capital and Stock Market Participation in Europe 

  Ashok Thomas; Luca, Spataro (Springer: Journal of Family and Economic Issues, 2015)

  Households’ stock market participation has significant effects on savings and on an economy’s financial development and performance. Yet participation into capital markets is limited and quite heterogonous both among and ...
• The internal dynamic of Indian economic growth 

  Balakrishnan, Pulapre (Journal of Asian Economics: Elsevier, 2017)

  A stylised fact of India’s economic history since 1950 is that the rate of growth of the economy has accelerated periodically and across policy regimes. In this paper we present a theoretical framework that can generate ...
• Price Monitoring and Control under GST 

  Sthanu R Nair; Leena Mary Eapen (Economic and Political Weekly, 2017-06-24)

  The Central Goods and Services Tax Act, 2017 has an “anti-profiteering” clause aimed at ensuring that businesses pass on tax rate cuts and cost savings resulting from the adoption of GST to the consumers. In this context, ...
• Input trade reform and wage inequality 

  Mukherjee, Soumyatanu (Elsevier: International Review of Economics and Finance, 2017)

  This paper, using a general equilibrium model of production and trade for a developing country with non-traded goods, dual unskilled labour markets and internationally fragmented skillintensive production, illuminates how ...
• HCL to hire kids directly from school: Does this mark a divorce of education, employment in India? 

  Kausik, Gangopadhyay (Firstpost, 2017-03-31)

  Technology giant HCL announced a transformative scheme recently under which high school graduates with 85 percent marks will find a technical job in the company, with a part-time facility to get a college degree. The scheme, ...
• International trade and firms' attitude towards risk 

  Broll, Udo; Mukherjee, Soumyatanu (Elsevier: Economic Modelling, 2017)

  This paper examines the optimal production and trade decisions of the domestic firms facing uncertainties owing to the exchange rate volatility under mean-variance preferences. The impact of uncertain exchange rate ...
• Markets, Growth and Social Opportunity India since 1991 

  Balakrishnan, Pulapre (Economic and Political Weekly, 2017-01-14)

  Since 1991, there has been an acceleration of economic growth accompanied by a widening of the range of consumer goods produced, together with improvement in the quality of services available. Furthermore, the economy has ...
• The relationship between competition and risk-taking behaviour of Indian banks 

  Sanjukta Sarkar; Rudra Sensarma (Emerald Group Publishing Limited, 2016)

  Purpose – Under the traditional franchise value paradigm, competition in banking markets is considered to be risk enhancing because of its tendency to raise interest rates on deposits. Taking a contrarian view, Boyd and ...
• Technology, trade and ‘urban poor’ in a general equilibrium model with segmented domestic factor markets 

  Mukherjee, Soumyatanu (Elsevier, 2016)

  Drawing on the evidence from Indian provinces, this paper, using a four-sector general equilibrium model with segmented domestic labour and capital markets, proposes that factor-specific technological progress only in the ...
• Nature of current inflation in. food prices 

  Sthanumoorthy, R. (Economic & Political Weekly, 2008-10-04)

  Food prices are supposed to bedriving the current inflationaryspiral. The analysis here showsthat it is "food products" and not "primary food articles" which aremainly responsible for the surge ininflation. Among food ...
• Measuring Productivity in Manufacturing Sector 

  Balakrishnan, Pulapre (Economic and Political Weekly, 2004-04)

  Conventional wisdom and current practice in India appear to privilege total factor productivity (TFP), as a measure of productivity, rather than labour productivity. However, labour productivity is a measure of potential ...
• Land Reforms and the Question of Food in Kerala 

  Balakrishnan, Pulapre (Economic and Political Weekly, 1999-05-22)

  This paper explores the idea that the decline of foodgrain production in Kerala originated in the decline of agriculture following migration to the Gulf. It is this event, it is argued that has stood in the way of land ...
• Labour Arrangements and Bargaining Outcomes under Different Market Conditions 

  Chakravarty, Deepita (The Indian Journal of Labour Economics, 2006)

  It is the market conditions in a specific industry and/or in the economy in general,not the labour policy legislations and trade unions practices, that take the lead role in determining the labout market outcomes. This is ...
• Keynes with or without Capital Flows 

  Balakrishnan, Pulapre (Economic and Political Weekly, 2003-01-11)
• Is FDI Led Exports in New Zealand? 

  Bhatt, P.R. (National Institute of Bank Management, 2011-01)

  The objectives of the paper are to study foreign trade and investment dimensions of New Zealand in comparison with its competitors such as Australia, China, India, Japan and Republic ofKorea and to study the rote of FDI ...
• Invest big in Agriculture 

  Sthanu, R. Nair (The New Indian Express, 2012-12-05)

  My central argument is: To bring down food inflation to the desired level, among others, concrete measures need to be undertaken to control and/or cut down the cost of production of food commodities.
• Industrial Recovery: Is it sustainable ? 

  Damodaran, Suma; Bhattacharyya, Subhajit*; Bhattacharya, B.B.*; Singh, Rakesh* (ICFAI University Press, 2003-10)

  India Inc. showed a strong performance in the fiscal year 2002-03 and continued the tempo through the first quarter of 2003-04. While this is a reason to celebrate, many doubts linger about the sustainability of this trend ...
• Industrial Dispersal Through Sales Tax Incentives: An Inter-Regional Picture of Maharashtra upto 1995 

  Rameshan, P. (Man & Development, 2001-06)

  This paper aims at analysing the inter-regional distribution of sales tax exemption and deferral benefits granted to industrialists in Maharashtra during 1979-1995. The incentives have been offered as a strategy dispersal ...
• Indian Trade Unions: Today and beyond Tomorrow 

  Noronha, Ernesto (Indian Journal of Industrial Relations, 2003-07)
• Workers Displacement: Sources of support and coping 

  Noronha, Ernesto (Indian Journal of Labour Economics, 2001)

  The paper examines the case of indusrial sickness in New Rajpur Mills, which resulted in industry unemployment and an adverse impact on the lives of workers. It reveals the initial response of the workers to be closeure, ...

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