Author: Bhargavi Zaveri

Bhargavi Zaveri is a researcher at the Indira Gandhi Institute for Development Research.

On this blog:

• Do court vacations matter: evidence from the Bombay High Court, 23 September 2024.
• Survey-based measurement of Indian courts, 13 January 2024.
• How substantial are non-substantive hearings in Indian courts: some estimates from Bombay, 6 December 2023.
• Helping litigants make informed choices in resolving debt disputes, 15 June 2023.
• The place of short selling in the financial markets, 18 April 2023.
• The litigant perspective upon courts, 28 November 2022.
• How are securities laws enforced in India: some facts from a new data-set of SEBI orders, 22 September 2022.
• How did courts respond to the pandemic lockdowns: evidence from the NCLT, 27 March 2022.
• Resolving municipal distress in India, 24 October 2021.
• Instant cross-border payments vs. current account inconvertibility, 21 September 2021
• Litigation in public contracts: some estimates from court data, 26 May 2021
• Should consumers be restricted from storing their card data on the internet?, 26 May 2021
• How large is the payment delays problem in Indian public procurement?, 22 March 2021.
• Judicial triage in the lockdown: evidence from India's largest commercial tribunal, 14 October 2020.
• Measuring court output in the pandemic: evidence from India's largest commercial tribunal, 11 September 2020.
• Liberalising foreign capital flows in Government debt: No time for incrementalism, 23 April 2020.
• Problems with evidentiary standards for proving securities fraud in India, 23 August 2019. 
• Time to resolve insolvencies in India, 11 March 2019. 
• RBI's alternative route for foreign debt inflows, 6 November 2018. 
• Runs on mutual funds, 12 October 2018. 
• Do digitised land records mirror reality?, 13 June 2018. 
• Disclosure of default: The present SEBI disclosure regulation is adequate, 11 January 2018. 
• Digitising land record management in Maharashtra, 1 December 2017. 
• Watching India's insolvency reforms: a new dataset of insolvency cases, 30 August 2017. 
• The accountability framework of UIDAI: Concerns and solutions, 20 August 2017. 
• Policy implications of the Tata-Docomo order, 9 May 2017.
• A critique of RBI's proposal to regulate pre-paid payment instruments in India, 1 May 2017.
• Distortions in the Indian land collateral market, 1 February 2017.
• How would demonetisation have shaped up under an improved RBI board?, 25 January 2017.
• Measuring outputs v. outcomes: Did the restriction on foreign investment in Rupee-debt work?, 6 January 2017.
• Should we be uploading FIRs on the internet?, 6 January 2017.
• Intrusive detail in the rules associated with de-monetisation, 30 November 2016.
• Legal questions about demonetisation: What happens to the assets that back extinguished rupee notes, 18 November 2016.
• Weaknesses of recent moves on capital controls for outbound capital flows, 29 October 2016.
• SEBI's proposal to regulate social media: Where did we go wrong?, 15 October 2016.
• CAG concerns about public debt management, 31 July 2016
• Tata-Docomo: What went wrong, and what we need to do different, 8 July 2016.
• Rajasthan's land title reforms: The need to identify the right interventions , 21 May 2016.
  
• Building a better credit market, 12 March 2016.
• How the Indian land market can learn from the Indian securities market, 29 February 2016.
• Participatory governance in regulation making: How to make it work?, 17 January 2016.
• Regulatory strategy for convertibles, 10 January 2016.
• Obligation to give an exit to dissenting shareholders, 6 January 2016.

• Foreign investment in Indian pooling vehicles: FEMA gets creatively flexible, 23 December 2015.
• The new FDI policy: Well begun is not half done, 12 November 2015. 
• Selective default on corporate bonds, 25 October 2015.
• Self trading is not synonymous with market abuse, 29 July 2015.
• Good sense on Docomo vs. the rule of law, 19 January 2015.