Indian Growth and Development Review: Volume 15 Issue 1

Structural change and economic growth in India: a comparative study of Punjab

Anirban Sanyal, Nirvikar Singh

The Green Revolution transformed agriculture in the Indian State of Punjab, with positive spillovers to the rest of India, but recently the state’s economy has fallen dramatically…

Labor market policies, informality and misallocation

Priyaranjan Jha, Rana Hasan

The purpose of this paper is to understand labor market regulations and their consequences for the allocation of resources.

Searching for hedging and safe haven assets for Indian equity market – a comparison between gold, cryptocurrency and commodities

Sayantan Bandhu Majumder

This paper aims to evaluate the hedging and safe haven properties of gold, cryptocurrency and commodities against the Indian equity market.

SME financing through public equity: review of the Indian SME exchanges

Avinash Ghalke, Satish Kumar, S.V.D. Nageswara Rao

Timely access to reasonably priced financing is critical to promote and sustain small and medium sized businesses (SMEs). This study aims to examine the role of the newly…

Promoter ownership and bankruptcy reforms: evidence from India

Vishnu K. Ramesh, Reshma K. Ramesh, Jithesh T.

The demand-side view of creditor rights posits a negative association between creditor rights and corporate borrowings. The purpose of this paper is as follows: first, the author…

Optimal commodity taxation – a new computational procedure with application to India

Amita Majumder, Ranjan Ray, Sattwik Santra

This paper aims to illustrate the usefulness of the proposed procedure to evaluate the Goods and Services Tax (GST) in India by applying it to provide evidence on optimal…

Leverage strategies of Indian telecom sector: a dynamic panel data approach

Tasneem Khan, Mohd Shamim, Mohammad Azeem Khan

The purpose of this paper is to examine the optimal leverage ratio, speed of adjustment, and which factors contribute to achieving the target of selected telecom companies in a…