This paper examines the effects of firms dynamics on industry level productivity growth in India during the period 2000-01 to 2005-06 using plant level panel data of 22 manufacturing industries. The empirical analysis is based on decomposition techniques of aggregate productivity growth. The...

This paper investigates the effect of the devolution of power to the village level government on the household-level allocation of poverty alleviation programmes, drawing upon National Sample Survey data and the Election Commission’s election data. First, greater inequality in land-holdings...

This paper empirically investigates the determinants of fertility, drawing upon large nationwide household data sets in India constructed by the National Sample Surveys (NSS) and National Family Health Surveys (NFHS) over the period 1992-2006. First, we find a negative and significant...

Over the past two decades, considerable interest has grown in high growth firms (HGFs). However, the concept of HGFs still remains controversial. One of the most controversial issues is size and age of these firms. The present study argues that the current literature on HGFs may offer little...

In Japan, "Corporate Law" and ¡°Financial Instruments and Exchange Law" stipulate the internal control system. Stipulations in ¡°Corporate Law¡± tend towards all levels the in the company, while stipulations in ¡°Financial Instruments and Exchange Law¡± are more inclined towards the...

Companies in different countries have different corporate governance systems. One of the reasons is that the trade cost dealing in the society and other economic factors are different in different countries. View from this angle, corporate governance systems should have the value that can reduce...

In Japan, 'Corporate Law' and 'Financial Instruments and Exchange Law' stipulate the internal control system. Stipulations in 'Corporate Law' tend towards all levels the in the company, while stipulations in 'Financial Instruments and Exchange Law' are more inclined towards the accuracy of...

The growth mode and electronic structure of the vapor-deposited Ag overlayer on the ${\rm ZnO}(10\overline{1}0)$ surface is investigated by angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy utilizing synchrotron radiation. The coverage dependent measurements of the two-dimensional band structure by the...

The main purpose of this paper is to show that, for any given parameter values, an equilibrium with dispersed prices (two-price equilibrium) exists in a simple matching model with divisible money presented by Green and Zhou (1998).We also show that our two-price equilibrium is unique in certain...