Browsing by Author "Chakrabarti, Anindya"
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Absence of economic and social constants
Chakrabarti, Anindya; Lahkar, Ratul (Springer, 2016)In this article, we discuss the possibility of economics as a discipline emulating the success of hard sciences. In our view, a fundamental obstacle arises from the fact that economics does not have (m)any stable and ... -
An analysis of housing market and prices in India
Vasudha, Aishwarya; Samanth, C. Siddartha; Jain, Nayana (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2017)The Real Estate sector in India is experiencing a lot of activity in the recent few years. With a number of policy changes like RERA and GST coming into place, the real estate market has also gone under a cycle of fluctuations. ... -
Breaking “bad” links: impact of Companies Act 2013 on the Indian corporate network
Aggarwal, M.; Chakrabarti, Anindya; Dev, Pritha (Social Networks, 2020)Board interlock networks are known to exhibit concentration of influence by a small group of elites. In this paper, we study a policy intervention aiming to curb this influence. We analyze the evolution of Indian board ... -
A computational algorithm to analyze unobserved sequential reactions of the central banks: inference on complex lead-lag relationship in evolution of policy stances
Chakrabarti, Anindya; Kumar, Sudarshan (2019-06-03)Central banks of different countries are some of the largest economic players at the global scale and they are not static in their monetary policy stances. They change their policies substantially over time in response to ... -
Cross-correlation patterns in social opinion formation with sequential data
Chakrabarti, Anindya (Elsevier B.V., 2016)Recent research on large-scale internet data suggests existence of patterns in the collective behavior of billions of people even though each of them may pursue own activities. In this paper, we interpret online rating ... -
Determinants of sovereign credit ratings
Maida, Amit; Yadav, Ashutosh Kumar (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2020)Sovereign ratings are independent assessments of a country's financial health. It provides insights to potential investors about the creditworthiness of an economy to determine scope for investments. The ratings are an ... -
Dispersion in macroeconomic volatility between the core and periphery of the international trade network
Chakrabarti, Anindya (Elsevier, 2018-03)At the country level, macroeconomic volatility tends to correlate with trade openness although the direction of correlation is not stable across samples. Higher openness allows for greater diversification opportunities, ... -
Dispersion in macroeconomic volatility between the core and periphery of the international trade network
Chakrabarti, Anindya (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2015)At the country level, macroeconomic volatility tends to correlate with trade openness although the direction of correlation is not stable across samples. Here I consider trade networks as sum of all pairwise trade linkages ... -
Economic Incentives versus Institutional Frictions: Dynamics of cross-country migration
Chakrabarti, Anindya (Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2015-07-14)The R & P seminar held at Wing 11 Committee Room, IIM Ahmedabad on July 14, 2015 by Prof. Anindya S. Chakrabarti, Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad on Economic Incentives versus Institutional Frictions:Dynamics of ... -
Economic incentives versus institutional frictions: migration dynamics within Europe
Chakrabarti, Anindya; Dutta, Aparna (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2015)The immobility puzzle in European Union takes the form that the observed level of migration within Europe is substantially less than is expected in an union which allows free labor mobility, indicating that there are ... -
Emergence of anti-coordination through reinforcement learning in generalized minority games
Chakrabarti, Anindya; Ghosh, Diptesh (Springer, 2017)In this paper we propose adaptive strategies to solve coordination failuresin a prototype generalized minority game model with a multi-agent, multi-choiceenvironment. We illustrate the model with an application to large ... -
Emergence of distributed coordination in the Kolkata Paise Restaurant problem with finite information
Ghosh, Diptesh; Chakrabarti, Anindya (Elseveir, 2017)In this paper, we study a large-scale distributed coordination problem and propose efficient adaptive strategies to solve the problem. The basic problem is to allocate finite number of resources to individual agents in the ... -
An evolutionary analysis of growth and fluctuations with negative externalities
Chakrabarti, Anindya; Lahkar, Ratul (Springer International Publishing, 2018)We present an evolutionary game theoretic model of growth and fluctuations with negative externalities. Agents in a population choose the level of input. Total output is a function of aggregate input and a productivity ... -
Financial fluctuations anchored to economic fundamentals: a mesoscopic network approach
Sharma, Kiran; Gopalakrishnan, Balagopal; Chakrabarti, Anindya; Chakraborti, Anirban (Nature Research, 2017)We demonstrate the existence of an empirical linkage between nominal financial networks and the underlying economic fundamentals, across countries. We construct the nominal return correlation networks from daily data to ... -
"Hits" emerge through self-organized coordination in collective response of free agents
Chakrabarti, Anindya; Sinha, Sitabhra (American Physical Society, 2016)Individuals in free societies frequently exhibit striking coordination when making independent decisions en masse. Examples include the regular appearance of hit products or memes with substantially higher popularity ... -
Improving server utilization in a distributed computing set-up with independent clients
Chakrabarti, Anindya; Ghosh, Diptesh (2018)We consider a set-up in which there are multiple servers and multiple clients in a large distributed computing system. Clients request servers to process jobs. Servers can only process one job in unit time. There is no ... -
In ationary e ects of monetary policies in newly industrialized economies with cross-sectoral labor and capital immobility
Chakrabarti, Anindya (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2015)This paper studies the effects of monetary policies in newly industrialized economies characterized by extremely low level of labor and capital mobility between urban and rural sectors. Policies are executed in the urban ... -
Inflationary effects of monetary policies in newly industrialized economies with cross-sectoral labor and capital immobility
Chakrabarti, Anindya (Journal of Macroeconomics, 2016)This paper studies the effects of monetary policies in newly industrialized economies characterized by extremely low level of labor and capital mobility between urban and rural sectors. Policies are executed in the urban ... -
Inflationary effects of monetary policies in newly industrialized economies with cross-sectoral labor and capital immobility
Chakrabarti, Anindya (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2015)This paper studies the effects of monetary policies in newly industrialized economies characterized by extremely low level of labor and capital mobility between urban and rural sectors. Policies are executed in the urban ... -
Invariant features of spatial inequality in consumption: the case of India
Chakrabarti, Anindya; Chatterjee, A.; Ghosh, A.; Chakraborti, A.; Nandi, T.K. (Elsevier, 2016)We study the distributional features and inequality of consumption expenditure across India, for different states, castes, religion and urban-rural divide. We find that even though the aggregate measures of inequality are ...