Worldwide protests against the perceived lack of economic opportunity and failure of governance have refocused attention on the need for inclusive growth and strong institutions. In developing countries, large informal economies limit state capacity to deliver governance and strong institutions,...

In this dissertation I examine sources of growth in the formal manufacturing sector in India, from 1970 to 2003. I consider both all-India trends and state-level trends in the growth of resource efficiency, measured by TFP, and the relative contribution of TFP growth to output growth in...

The trade discussions between the U.S. and China are on-going. Not much is known about the shape and nature of a potential agreement, but it seems possible that it would include elements of managed trade. This paper attempts to examine the direct, first-round spillover effects for the rest of...

At the macro level, productivity is driven by technology and the efficiency of resource allocation, as outcomes of firms' decision making. The relatively high level of resource misallocation in India's formal manufacturing sector is well documented. We build on this research to further...

The employment impact of environmental policies is an important question for policy makers. We examine the effect of increasing the stringency of environmental policy across a broad set of policies on firms' labor demand, in a novel identification approach using Worldscope data from 31 countries...