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Did India’s price control policy for coronary stents create unintended consequences?
(Social Science & Medicine, 2020)
In February 2017, India capped the retail price of coronary stents and restricted the channel margin to bring Percutaneous Transluminal Coronary Angioplasty (PTCA) procedure, which uses coronary stents, within reach of ...
Social connections and tertiary healthcare utilization
(Health Economics, 2020)
The use of tertiary health care by socially proximate peers helps individuals learn about program and treatment procedures, signals that using such care is socially appropriate, and could support the use of formal health ...
Women’s political leadership and economic empowerment: evidence from public works in India
(Journal of Comparative Economics, 2020)
Despite recent advances, women trail men in political participation, especially in developing countries where the long-term economic benefits from empowering women politically have not been well-researched. We use data ...
Environmental regulations in India
(Oxford University Press, 2020-06-30)
Pollution is one of the greatest causes of premature deaths and morbidity in the world, and this burden of pollution is disproportionately borne by the lower and middle income countries such as India—home to more than ...
The COVID-19 pandemic and food insecurity: a viewpoint on India
(World Development, 2020-07-15)
In this article, we present our viewpoint on COVID-19 pandemic and one of the humanitarian challenges it will likely pose: food insecurity. We begin our article by presenting the status of hunger and food insecurity around ...
Do Big 4 auditors limit classification shifting? evidence from India
(Elsevier, 2021-01-20)
Extant research suggests that Big 4 auditors compared to non-Big 4 auditors act as a superior deterrent to accrual-based earnings management. We extend this research to another form of earnings management, classification ...
Physimorphic vs. Typographic logos in destination marketing: Integrating destination familiarity and consumer characteristics
(Elsevier, 2022-04-16)
Research on the effectiveness of destination logos is sparse. The present study introduces the idea of physimorphic (nature resembling) logos and explores its effectiveness on the tourist vis a vis non-physimorphic or ...
I “showroom” but “webroom” too: investigating cross-shopping behaviour in a developing nation
(Emerald, 2022-07-06)
Purpose: The concepts of showrooming and webrooming have been well researched but majorly from the marketing/economic perspectives. The present study explores the socio-psychological motivations and different types of ...
Big-4 auditors and audit quality: a novel firm life-cycle approach
(Emerald, 2022-08-12)
Purpose: Firm-specific factors such as size, profitability, growth, risk and complexity, in addition to agency-related issues determine both auditor selection and firm life-cycle stage. This paper aims to examine whether ...
Global monetary policies and implications for financial flows to India and other emerging markets
(Springer, 2022)
This chapter reviews the experience of monetary easing by the central banks of advanced economies, which included large-scale purchases of financial assets and close to zero or negative policy interest rates, to counter ...