Purpose – Regulating common‐pool resources is welfare enhancing for society but not necessarily for all users who may therefore oppose regulations. The purpose of this paper is to examine the short‐term impact of common‐pool resource regulations on welfare distribution....

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the effects of environmental regulation on green R&D, as well as to characterize the conditions under which the Porter hypothesis, both the weak as well as the strict version, may or may not hold. Design/methodology/approach – The authors use...

Purpose – The aim of this paper is to develop a theory of sharecropping with cost sharing after allowing for an explicit role of a creditor. In the tenancy literature, the prevalence of sharecropping has remained an important issue. While most contributions have focussed only on output...

Purpose – Indian monetary policy performed reasonably well in the past, while both strategy and operational framework were evolving on par with domestic financial and monetary markets. The purpose of this paper is to document how this good track record came to an abrupt stop in recent years as...

Purpose – Many countries have experienced, or are experiencing, urbanization. One such example is China. Even though the large-scale rural-urban migration seems chaotic on the surface, there are certain underlying forces driving individual decisions. The purpose of this paper is to provide...

Purpose – Regulating common-pool resources is welfare enhancing for society but not necessarily for all users who may therefore oppose regulations. The purpose of this paper is to examine the short-term impact of common-pool resource regulations on welfare distribution....

Purpose – Indian monetary policy performed reasonably well in the past, while both strategy and operational framework were evolving on a par with domestic financial and monetary markets. The purpose of this paper is to document how this good track record came to an abrupt stop in recent years...

Purpose – The aim of this paper is to develop a theory of sharecropping with cost sharing after allowing for an explicit role of a creditor. In the tenancy literature, the prevalence of sharecropping has remained an important issue. While most contributions have focussed only on output...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the effects of environmental regulation on green R&D, as well as to characterize the conditions under which the Porter hypothesis, both the weak as well as the strict version, may or may not hold. Design/methodology/approach – The authors use...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to study the dynamics of the distribution of per capita income of Indian states in the post-reform period, in order to identify trends towards convergence-club formation, polarization or stratification during this period. Design/methodology/approach –...