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Financial fluctuations anchored to economic fundamentals: a mesoscopic network approach
(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 ...
Emergence of anti-coordination through reinforcement learning in generalized minority games
(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 ...
Quantifying invariant features of within-group inequality in consumption across groups
(Springer, 2018)
We study unit-level expenditure on consumption across multiple countries
and multiple years, in order to extract invariant features of consumption distribution.
We show that the bulk of it is lognormally distributed, ...
Productivity differences and inter-state migration in the U.S.: a multilateral gravity approach
(Elsevier B.V., 2017)
In this paper, we study the quantitative role of productivity differences in explaining migration in presence of multiple destination choices. We construct a dynamic general equilibrium model with multi-region, multi-sector ...
Invariant features of spatial inequality in consumption: the case of India
(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 ...
The economic effects of labour legislation in India: a critical essay
(Industrial Relations Journal, 2010-04-29)
Job security regulations have been central to government interventions in the labour market in India. These have been criticised for restricting employment growth. We argue that job security regulation has not had the ...
When will formality become the norm?
(Springer India, 2015)
An enterprise is not inherently formal or informal with regard to its characteristics (such as size, among other things) or the nature of employment. Informality is a choice in relation to regulation by the State. In order ...
Positives outweighing negatives: the experiences of Indian crowd sourced workers
(2016)
This article reports on an empirical study of Indian freelancers working via
Elance-oDesk (now renamed Upwork). In a qualitative approach, data were
gathered from 24 freelancers across India through in-depth telephone ...
Linkage between perceived external prestige and emotional labour: mediation effect of organizational identification among pharmaceutical representatives in India
(Elsevier Inc., 2012)
With the increasing importance of customer service in sustaining competitive advantage, one of the challenges before the organizations is how to motivate their employees to perform desired emotional labor during customer ...