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09-08: A Characterization of the average tree solution for tree games

Debasis Mishra and Adolphus Talman

09-07: Poverty in Indian cities during the reforms era

S Chandrasekhar and Abhiroop Mukhopadhyay

09-06: Separability and aggregation of equivalence relations

Dinko Dimitrov, Thierry Marchant and Debasis Mishra

09-05: Does the market kill bad ideas? An institutional comparision of committees and markets in network industries

Prabal Roy Choudhury and Debadatta Saha

09-04: Does one size fit all? An experimental test of household models in East Uganda

Vegard Iversen et al

09-03: The Distributive impact of reforms in credit enforcement: Evidence from Indian debt recovery tribunals

Ulf von Lilienfeld-Toal, Dilip Mookherjee and Sujata Visaria

09-02: Bertrand competition with non-rigid capacity constraints

Prabal Roy Chowdhury

09-01: Job recruitment networks and migration to cities in India

Vegard Iversen, Kunal Sen, Arjan Verschoor and Amaresh Dubey

08-15: Communication networks with endogeneous link strength

Francis Bloch and Bhaskar Dutta

08-14: Electoral goals and center-state transfers: A Theoretical model and empirical evidence from India

Wiji Arulampalam, Sugato Dasgupta, Amrita Dhillon and Bhaskar Dutta

08-13: Local network externalities and market segmentation

A. Banerji and Bhaskar Dutta

08-12: Minimum cost arborescences

Bhaskar Dutta and Debasis Mishra

08-11: Public-private partnerships in microfinance: Should NGO involvement be restricted?

Jaideep Roy and Prabal Roy Chowdhury

08-10: Multi-person bargaining with complementarity: Is there holdout?

Prabal Roy Chowdhury and Kunal Sengupta

08-09: Product boycott a good idea for controlling child labor? A theoretical investigation

Kaushik Basu and Homa Zarghamee

08-08: Identity and altruism: The Moral basis of prosperity and oppression

Kaushik Basu

08-07: Characterization of the walrasian equilibria of the assignment model

Debasis Mishra and Adolphus Talman

08-06: The Limits of intellectual property rights: Lessons from the spread of illegal transgenic seeds in India

N. Lalitha, Carl E. Pray and Bharat Ramaswami

08-05: The incidence of fuel taxation in India

Ashokankur Datta

08-04: Deterrence, preemption and panic: A Common-enemy problem of terrorism

Satya P. Das and Prabal Roy Chowdhury

08-03: V-Factor: Distribution, timing and correlates of the the great Indian growth turnaround

Chetan Ghate and Stephen Wright

08-02: Negative reality of the HIV positives: Evaluating welfare loss in a low prevalence country

Sanghamitra Das, Abhiroop Mukhopadhyay and Tridip Ray

08-01: Discrimination in an elite labour market? Job placements at the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad

Sujoy Chakravarty and E. Somanathan

07-06: Integrating mental health in welfare evaluation: An Empirical application

Sanghamitra Das, Abhiroop Mukhopadhyay and Tridip Ray

07-05: How does poverty decline? Evidence from India, 1983-1999

Mukesh Eswaran, Ashok Kotwal, Bharat Ramaswami and Wilima Wadhwa

07-04: Multi-item Vickrey-Dutch auctions

Debasis Mishra and David C. Parkes

07-03: Overdemand and underdemand in economies with indivisible goods and unit demand

Debasis Mishra and Adolphus Talman

07-02: Controlling collusion in auctions: The Role of ceilings and reserve prices

Prabal Roy Chowdhury

07-01: Child labor and household wealth: Theory and empirical evidence of an inverted-U

Kaushik Basu, Sanghamitra Das and Bhaskar Dutta

06-05: Liberalization, biotechnology and the private seed sector: The Case of India's cotton seed market

Milind Murugkar, Bharat Ramaswami and Mahesh Shelar

06-04: Alliances among asymmetric countries

Prabal Roy Chowdhury

06-03: Underdeveloped spot markets and futures trading: The Soya Oil exchange in India

Bharat Ramaswami and Jatinder Bir Singh

06-02: Innovation incentives in an intergrated marketed with vertical product differentiation

Rajat Acharyya and Prabal Roy Chowdhury

06-01: Group-lending with sequential financing, contingent renewal and social capital

Prabal Roy Chowdhury

05-07: Transitional dynamics in a growth model with distributive politics

Chetan Ghate

05-06: The Folk theorem and bertrand competition

Prabal Roy Chowdhury

05-05: Patents and R & D: The tournament effect

Prabal Roy Chowdhury

05-04: Does decentralization work? Forest conservation in the Himalayas

E. Somanathan, R. Prabhakar and Bhupendra Singh Mehta

05-03: Education and growth in the presence of capital flight

Debajyoti Chakrabarty, Areendam Chanda and Chetan Ghate

05-02: Do security deposit rates matter: Evidence from a secondary market

Susumu Imai, Kala Krishna and Abhiroop Mukhopadhyay

05-01: Efficiency and distribution in contract farming:The case of Indian poultry growers

Bharat Ramaswami, Pratap Birthal and P.K. Joshi

04-23: Group-lending with sequential financing, joint liability and social capital

Prabal Roy Chowdhury

04-22: Financial intermediation and employment

Manoj Pant, Prabal Roy Chowdhury and Gurbachan Singh

04-21: Collective action in the commons: A theoretical framework for empirical research

Rajiv Sethi and E. Somanathan

04-20: Controlling informalization: Punitive versus strategic measures

Siddhartha Mitra

04-19: An analysis of corporate performance and governance in India: Study of some selected industries

Diganta Mukherjee and Tejamoy Ghose

04-18: Vertical diversity and equilbrium growth

Satya P. Das

04-17: The political economy of public goods: Some evidence from India

Abhijit Banerjee and Rohini Somanathan

04-16: Poverty targeting in public programs: A comparison of alternative nonparametric methods

Isha Dewan and Rohini Somanathan

04-15: Bertrand-Edgeworth equilibrium: Manipulable residual demand

Prabal Roy Chowdhury