We examine the effect of board interlocks on patenting and R&D spending for publicly traded
companies in India. We exploit a corporate governance reform to address the endogeneity …

The increased adoption of fertilizer and improved seeds are two key aspects to raising the
level of land productivity in Ethiopian agriculture. However, the adoption and diffusion of such …

Forecasting macroeconomic variables is key to developing a view on a country's economic
outlook. Most traditional forecasting models rely on fitting data to a pre-specified relationship …

This paper studies the interconnectedness of the global financial system and its susceptibility
to shocks. A novel multilayer network framework is applied to link debt and equity …

This paper builds a novel database on the effects of macroprudential policy drawing from 58
empirical studies, comprising over 6,000 results on a wide range of instruments and …

Building on recent advances in the literature and using a rich data set for two cohorts of
children aged between one and twelve for Andhra Pradesh, India, we investigate the …

The article is the first comprehensive attempt at estimating the variation in the incidence,
intensity and severity of poverty in the Punjab at the level of sub-provincial regions and districts. …

This paper identifies the effect of corporate networks on firms’ financial investment and
executive pay decisions. Corporate networks arise through board interlocks, which provide a …

This paper identifies the effect of neighborhood peer groups on childhood skill acquisition
using observational data. We incorporate spatial peer interaction, defined as a child's nearest …

We examine how the development of the digital infrastructure known as the “India Stack”—including
an interoperable payments system, a universal digital ID, and other features—is …