The institution of consanguineous marriage - a marriage contracted between close biological relatives - has been a basic building block of many societies in different parts of the world. This paper argues that the practice of consanguinity is closely related to the practice of dowry, and that...

Part 1: Looking at Corporate Governance -- Chapter 1: Corporate Governance - A Theoretical Perspective -- Chapter 2: Corporate Governance in India: An Evolving Landscape -- Chapter 3: Corporate Governance and Economic Performance - A Micro to Macro Perspective -- Chapter 4: Linkage between...

The recent proliferation of free trade agreements (FTAs) has resulted in an increasingly complex network of preferential trading relationships. The economics literature has generally examined the formation of FTAs as a function of the participating countries' economic characteristics alone. In...

This paper develops a theory of endogenous league formation and considers its implications for policy in developing countries. We generalize from features of the two most prominent European co-op leagues, Mondragón and La Lega, to develop the first formal model of the endogenous formation of...

This paper provides a comprehensive development of turnpike theory in a stochastic aggregative model with time-varying nonconvex technology. A new approach to turnpike theorems is developed that exploits the monotonicity of optimal programs and utilizes a supermartingale process generated by...