Due to a legal challenge, there was a staggered introduction of fast track debt recovery tribunals (DRTs) across the states of India in the 1990s. Exploiting this plausibly exogenous variation in the efficiency of debt contract enforcement and using detailed information on product lines produced...

This paper is set in the backdrop of the dominant, sometimes seen as western, understanding that the realm of securities regulation is confined to the promotion and protection of allocative efficiency. Securities regulation is usually not appreciated as a legitimate tool for redistribution of...

We propose algorithms to create adversarial attacks to assess model robustness in text classification problems. They can be used to create white box attacks and black box attacks while at the same time preserving the semantics and syntax of the original text. The attacks cause significant number...