Sunday, July 30, 2006

Capital controls impeding economic growth

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A familiar theme in the research literature when thinking about either trade barriers or capital controls has been that they adversely impac...
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How to make the Indian State deliver the (public) goods

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Perhaps the single most important issue in Indian economic policy is the task of getting the State to focus on public goods, and improving t...
Tuesday, July 25, 2006

Quiet period prior to the IPO

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One little feature of the US IPO market is the notion of a "quiet period" where the firm that is headed for IPO is supposed to no...
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Wednesday, July 19, 2006

Mumbai blasts leading to censorship

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The real tragedy about the Indian government blocking blogspot.com is the lack of interest one sees in the freedom of speech. We see media c...
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Financial regulation: Going from potholes to expressways

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In India, we have an alphabet soup of financial regulators: RBI, SEBI, FMC, IRDA, PFRDA, the Dept. Company Affairs. In 1997, all financial r...
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Tuesday, July 18, 2006

Problems with the new NHAI roads

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I have long been fascinated by the transformative power of roads, and have looked to the new NHAI roads as a very big story for obtaining i...
Sunday, July 16, 2006

The Indian diamond trade - notes from a field visit

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by Ajay Shah. India and the democratisation of diamonds Diamonds were first discovered in India, and until the 17th century, India was ...
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