The city of Bangalore is encircled by a green belt area, instituted as an urban growth boundary to contain sprawl, ensuring equitable growth and preserving lung spaces. Urban growth boundaries world over are typically known to drive land prices higher in the inner city area. Bangalore has...

Chapter 1: The IS-LM Model: The Reason to Go Beyond It -- Chapter 2: Interaction between the Real Sector and the Financial Sector: An Alternative to the IS-LM Model -- Chapter 3: An Alternative to the IS–LM Model: Perfect Capital Mobility -- Chapter 4: Alternative to the IS-LM: Imperfect...

We examine the relation between information asymmetry and firm value using M&A as the identification strategy. Due to the due diligence and intense scrutiny of the target firm around M&A announcements, acquisitions are significant shocks to a target's information asymmetry. We find that M&A...