Urbanomics

Saturday, September 29, 2007

Why the 1 lakh car is not smart economics?

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There has been a lot of debate about the impending arrival of a Rs 1 lakh car. The Tatas have been at the forefront of this little Indian co...
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Friday, September 28, 2007

Interactive Guide on Housing Mortgage Bubble

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There is an excellent interactive tutorial, Credit Squeeze Explained , about the housing mortgage problems across the world and how the liqu...
Wednesday, September 26, 2007

The Economics of Cattle

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It is estimated that nearly three-fourths of the actual financial spending on self employment schemes of both the Federal and State Governme...
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Tuesday, September 25, 2007

Solid Waste Disposal

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It is not a hyperbole to suggest that if we could somehow incentivize people themselves to collect litter and deposit them at designated pla...
Sunday, September 23, 2007

Elasticities of corruption

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Regulation can have remarkably interesting results. Prof Greg Mankiw describes the consequences of a policy of crackdown on drugs supply, an...
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Friday, September 21, 2007

Rational Expectations and corruption

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There are numerous supply-side explanations of corruption, but very little analysis of the demand-side dynamics. However, it is widely ackno...
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Wednesday, September 19, 2007

Central Banks and market intervention

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The troubles of the mortgage lending bank, Northern Rock, has been rocking the Labour Government in England and financial markets across the...
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