What is the ideal age group for CEOs in Indian firms? The days of managers in their 40s taking over…
If one leaves out the smooth CEO succession at ICICI a couple of years ago, we notice that family-run businesses…
According to a new book by my friend and co-author, Viral Acharya, and his colleagues, at the Stern School of…
In October last year, the central government sold its stake in Coal India in the largest IPO ever in India.
While it has been known for long that politicians exploit the state machinery for their narrow political gains, for the…
In his Budget speech in July 2009, the finance minister had labelled bank nationalisation as visionary and revolutionary since, according…
As Indian capital markets have increasingly looked to attract foreign investors, capital from abroad has become an important source of…
The recent increase in interest rates by the Reserve Bank of India presents a cause for serious concern since rising…
What cost does a national government pay when it bails out its banks? Can the cost of a bank bailout…
Of the 25 major JVs in India between 1993-2003, 3 survived in 2005?even that seemed too high.
Sample some data on the microfinance performance in India: According to the data provided by www.mixmarket.org, microfinance in India reached…
We had earlier argued that land acquisition transactions between farmers and private parties suffer from ?asymmetric information,? i.e., the private…
The central government is proposing to adopt the famous Haryana model for compensating displaced people whose land is acquired for…
We need more financial innovation in India and not less. It is now well recognised in economic literature that innovation…
Taking cues from the undergoing efforts in the US and Europe to curb compensation in the financial sector, Reserve Bank…
Thinking about ideas and recipes changes how one thinks about economic policy. A traditional explanation for the…
The new Protection and Utilisation of Publicly Funded Intellectual Property Bill, which is to be reintroduced in the…
Corruption is a significant problem in India and much of the developing world. The inefficiencies engendered by corruption can be…
