Sumit K Majumdar
Biographic Data
| ID | 3709908 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sumit K Majumdar |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sumit K |
| FAMILY NAME | Majumdar |
| SIGNATURE | MAJUMDAR S K |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Texas at Dallas |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8686-8200 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 18 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
R&D and the overseas earnings of Indian firms
Pricing Regulations and Network Technology Investments: A Retrospective Evaluation
This article evaluates the impact of the introduction of incentive regulation on technology deployment, as evaluated using two technology deployment metrics, among the population of local exchange carriers in the USA between 1988 and 2001. The regulatory schemes are disaggregated into five categories, permitting examination of heterogeneity among regulatory schemes. The results show that the rate of return method and the other intermediate incent…
Regulation and Job Creation: An Analysis of Institutional Change and Its Consequences
The study evaluates the impact of changes in price regulation, an important institutional feature of firms’ environments, on average human resource deployment levels among the United States local exchange telecommunications companies using contemporary historical data between 1988 and 2001. The data permit a natural experiment approach for the evaluation. Firms regulated via rate of return approaches have employed significantly less staff. These …
Technology and wages: Why firms invest and what happens
Merger Waves and Firm Growth: Contemporary Historical Evidence
This article presents the outcomes of an evaluation of the impact of the series of mergers of the local exchange companies that have taken place between 1988 and 2001 on an important measure of performance of the firms undergoing the mergers. The analysis reveals that after firms have undertaken one merger they experience little or no growth after such mergers, but the impact of second mergers on firm growth have been negative. If an important mo…
Regulations and Strategy: Evidence on Advertising
This article evaluates the impact of the introduction of incentive regulation on firms’ advertising spending among the population of local exchange carriers in the United States telecommunications industry between 1988 and 2001. The results show that the hybrid rate of return method and other intermediate incentive schemes have a negative relationship with advertising spending. Conversely, the introduction of pure price caps schemes has had a pos…
Regulations and Technology Diffusion: Cross Subsidies and Digital Infrastructure Creation
Using contemporary historical data, the analysis has examined the impact of cross‐subsidization on technology diffusion within telecommunications networks for local exchange sector telecommunications firms in the United States for the years 1995 to 2000. Firms obtaining greater cross‐subsidies engage in greater technology diffusion via network modernization using digital technologies. Contingent on the institutional setting, cross subsidies have …
Cross Subsidization and Telecommunications Sector Wages: Cross Subsidization and Telecommunications Sector Wages
2 Résumé en fin d’article; Zusammenfassung am Ende des Artikels; resumen al final del artículo. : This study has examined wage determination in the presence of cross-subsidization of firms in the telecommunications industry. How variations in cross subsidies received, via the separations mechanism used in the industry, influence some firms to pay a greater level of wages is assessed. The firms studied have been almost the entire population of loc…
Incentive Compatible Mechanism Design and Firm Growth: Experiences From Telecommunications Sector Regulation
This article evaluates the impact of the introduction of incentive regulation on firm growth among the population of local exchange carriers in the US telecommunications industry between 1988 and 2001. The results show that the rate of return method and other intermediate incentive schemes have had a negative impact on firm growth. Conversely, the introduction of pure price caps schemes had a positive and significant impact on firms’ growth. Thes…
Technology diffusion and firm performance: It pays to join the digital bandwagon
Mergers, jobs, and wages in the United States telecommunications industry
This article evaluates the human capital consequences of several mergers of local exchange companies that took place between 1988 and 2001 in the telecommunications industry of the United States. Most firms in the sector underwent one merger event while other firms underwent two events. The levels of jobs and average wages in the firms are assessed after the merger events and analysis reveals that, while the first merger events experienced by fir…
The Entrepreneurial Revolution and Productivity in Indian Industry
Financial considerations and technology investment patterns in a network industry
Institutions in Transition: Property Rights Regime Changes and the Saga of Foreign Firms in India
The debt wish: Rent seeking by business groups and the structure of corporate borrowing in India
Property Rights and the Control of Strategy: Foreign Ownership Rules and Domestic Firm Globalization in Indian Industry
This study examines the influence of foreign ownership levels on domestic firms’ exporting behavior in India. Foreign ownership is categorized according to the control exercisable at different levels of ownership by foreign shareholders. The degree of strategic control a foreign shareholder can possess is determined by the institutional structure of the Indian environment that firms operate in. The results show that, after controlling for a varie…
Capital structure and performance: Evidence from a transition economy on an aspect of corporate governance
Assessing comparative efficiency of the state-owned mixed and private sectors in Indian industry
State as Investor and State as Owner: Consequences for Firm Performance in India
Market liberalization and the psychology of firm performance
Mergers, jobs, and wages in the United States telecommunications industry
This article evaluates the human capital consequences of several mergers of local exchange companies that took place between 1988 and 2001 in the telecommunications industry of the United States. Most firms in the sector underwent one merger event while other firms underwent two events. The levels of jobs and average wages in the firms are assessed after the merger events and analysis reveals that, while the first merger events experienced by fir…
The debt wish: Rent seeking by business groups and the structure of corporate borrowing in India
Assessing comparative efficiency of the state-owned mixed and private sectors in Indian industry
Cross Subsidization and Telecommunications Sector Wages: Cross Subsidization and Telecommunications Sector Wages
2 Résumé en fin d’article; Zusammenfassung am Ende des Artikels; resumen al final del artículo. : This study has examined wage determination in the presence of cross-subsidization of firms in the telecommunications industry. How variations in cross subsidies received, via the separations mechanism used in the industry, influence some firms to pay a greater level of wages is assessed. The firms studied have been almost the entire population of loc…
Institutions in Transition: Property Rights Regime Changes and the Saga of Foreign Firms in India
Technology and wages: Why firms invest and what happens
Regulations and Technology Diffusion: Cross Subsidies and Digital Infrastructure Creation
Using contemporary historical data, the analysis has examined the impact of cross‐subsidization on technology diffusion within telecommunications networks for local exchange sector telecommunications firms in the United States for the years 1995 to 2000. Firms obtaining greater cross‐subsidies engage in greater technology diffusion via network modernization using digital technologies. Contingent on the institutional setting, cross subsidies have …
Property Rights and the Control of Strategy: Foreign Ownership Rules and Domestic Firm Globalization in Indian Industry
This study examines the influence of foreign ownership levels on domestic firms’ exporting behavior in India. Foreign ownership is categorized according to the control exercisable at different levels of ownership by foreign shareholders. The degree of strategic control a foreign shareholder can possess is determined by the institutional structure of the Indian environment that firms operate in. The results show that, after controlling for a varie…
Capital structure and performance: Evidence from a transition economy on an aspect of corporate governance
State as Investor and State as Owner: Consequences for Firm Performance in India
Market liberalization and the psychology of firm performance
Assessing comparative efficiency of the state-owned mixed and private sectors in Indian industry
State as Investor and State as Owner: Consequences for Firm Performance in India
Capital structure and performance: Evidence from a transition economy on an aspect of corporate governance
Property Rights and the Control of Strategy: Foreign Ownership Rules and Domestic Firm Globalization in Indian Industry
This study examines the influence of foreign ownership levels on domestic firms’ exporting behavior in India. Foreign ownership is categorized according to the control exercisable at different levels of ownership by foreign shareholders. The degree of strategic control a foreign shareholder can possess is determined by the institutional structure of the Indian environment that firms operate in. The results show that, after controlling for a varie…
Institutions in Transition: Property Rights Regime Changes and the Saga of Foreign Firms in India
The debt wish: Rent seeking by business groups and the structure of corporate borrowing in India
The Entrepreneurial Revolution and Productivity in Indian Industry
Financial considerations and technology investment patterns in a network industry
Incentive Compatible Mechanism Design and Firm Growth: Experiences From Telecommunications Sector Regulation
This article evaluates the impact of the introduction of incentive regulation on firm growth among the population of local exchange carriers in the US telecommunications industry between 1988 and 2001. The results show that the rate of return method and other intermediate incentive schemes have had a negative impact on firm growth. Conversely, the introduction of pure price caps schemes had a positive and significant impact on firms’ growth. Thes…
Technology diffusion and firm performance: It pays to join the digital bandwagon
Mergers, jobs, and wages in the United States telecommunications industry
This article evaluates the human capital consequences of several mergers of local exchange companies that took place between 1988 and 2001 in the telecommunications industry of the United States. Most firms in the sector underwent one merger event while other firms underwent two events. The levels of jobs and average wages in the firms are assessed after the merger events and analysis reveals that, while the first merger events experienced by fir…
Cross Subsidization and Telecommunications Sector Wages: Cross Subsidization and Telecommunications Sector Wages
2 Résumé en fin d’article; Zusammenfassung am Ende des Artikels; resumen al final del artículo. : This study has examined wage determination in the presence of cross-subsidization of firms in the telecommunications industry. How variations in cross subsidies received, via the separations mechanism used in the industry, influence some firms to pay a greater level of wages is assessed. The firms studied have been almost the entire population of loc…
Merger Waves and Firm Growth: Contemporary Historical Evidence
This article presents the outcomes of an evaluation of the impact of the series of mergers of the local exchange companies that have taken place between 1988 and 2001 on an important measure of performance of the firms undergoing the mergers. The analysis reveals that after firms have undertaken one merger they experience little or no growth after such mergers, but the impact of second mergers on firm growth have been negative. If an important mo…
Regulations and Strategy: Evidence on Advertising
This article evaluates the impact of the introduction of incentive regulation on firms’ advertising spending among the population of local exchange carriers in the United States telecommunications industry between 1988 and 2001. The results show that the hybrid rate of return method and other intermediate incentive schemes have a negative relationship with advertising spending. Conversely, the introduction of pure price caps schemes has had a pos…
Regulations and Technology Diffusion: Cross Subsidies and Digital Infrastructure Creation
Using contemporary historical data, the analysis has examined the impact of cross‐subsidization on technology diffusion within telecommunications networks for local exchange sector telecommunications firms in the United States for the years 1995 to 2000. Firms obtaining greater cross‐subsidies engage in greater technology diffusion via network modernization using digital technologies. Contingent on the institutional setting, cross subsidies have …
Regulation and Job Creation: An Analysis of Institutional Change and Its Consequences
The study evaluates the impact of changes in price regulation, an important institutional feature of firms’ environments, on average human resource deployment levels among the United States local exchange telecommunications companies using contemporary historical data between 1988 and 2001. The data permit a natural experiment approach for the evaluation. Firms regulated via rate of return approaches have employed significantly less staff. These …
Technology and wages: Why firms invest and what happens
Pricing Regulations and Network Technology Investments: A Retrospective Evaluation
This article evaluates the impact of the introduction of incentive regulation on technology deployment, as evaluated using two technology deployment metrics, among the population of local exchange carriers in the USA between 1988 and 2001. The regulatory schemes are disaggregated into five categories, permitting examination of heterogeneity among regulatory schemes. The results show that the rate of return method and the other intermediate incent…
R&D and the overseas earnings of Indian firms
Business (20 works) · Economics (20 works) · ICT Impact and Policies (10 works) · Industrial organization (10 works) · Market economy (10 works) · Corporate Finance and Governance (8 works) · Finance (7 works) · Firm Innovation and Growth (7 works) · Microeconomics (6 works) · Digital Platforms and Economics (5 works)