Nirvikar Singh
Biographic Data
| ID | 3822504 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nirvikar Singh |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nirvikar |
| FAMILY NAME | Singh |
| SIGNATURE | SINGH N |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Santa Cruz |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5245-1119 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 32 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 41 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 31 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1984 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Impacts of the Covid lockdown on household incomes: Evidence from Punjab, India
In response to the beginnings of the COVID-19 pandemic, India’s government instituted a severe nationwide lockdown in late March 2020. In this paper, we analyze household survey data on income from an Indian state, Punjab. We analyze the impacts of the pandemic and lockdown on total household income, as well as its components, including wages, business income and transfers. This paper innovates in this area by using Poisson Pseudo Maximum Likelih…
Theories of governance and development: How does India’s experience fit
This paper takes on the apparent paradox of India’s combination of durable democracy, capable bureaucracy, but a deficient development trajectory. It begins by outlining the nature of the problem. Then it summarizes and compares some significant approaches to drawing connections from governance institutions to development outcomes. Next, it reviews some of the contributions to understanding India’s political economy in the last few decades. Final…
Religion-making in South Asia: An interstitial perspective
The study of ‘Hinduism’ in contemporary academia has generated considerable controversy. Many scholars have argued that the idea of a single ancient religion is difficult to substantiate based on the historical record. A common alternative position is that Hinduism is a colonial construct, without well-defined historical antecedents. This paper contributes to a scholarly middle ground, which provides an empirically based yet still contingent anal…
Quantifying Specific and Systemic Factors in the Black-White Wealth Gap in the United States
This paper provides a new quantitative analysis of the role of specific and systemic factors in racial wealth disparities in the United States. Specific or individual factors include characteristics such as education, occupation, homeownership, and inheritance. Systemic factors can be reflected in unexplained racial differences, or by considering the effect of differences in characteristics when taken together. Utilizing the 2016 Survey of Consum…
Who owns religion? Scholars, Sikhs and the public sphere
This paper revisits the question “Who Owns Religion?”, in the context of a recent analysis of debates in religious studies, marked by controversy and friction between members of religious traditions and scholars writing about those traditions. Habermas’s concept of a public sphere is at the center of an analysis by Laurie Patton that uses six case studies, including one involving the Sikh tradition. The paper reviews this conceptual framing and t…
A model of embedded autonomy and asymmetric information
We model the concept of embedded autonomy, introduced by Peter Evans, as an interaction between bureaucrats and entrepreneurs, where bureaucrats must approve projects proposed by entrepreneurs. Entrepreneurs are better informed about their own projects than are bureaucrats, but bureaucrats can receive signals about project quality from entrepreneurs. If bureaucrats and entrepreneurs are more closely connected, say through social ties, they receiv…
What Can We Learn from Global and Regional Rankings of Countries
We use principal component analysis (PCA) to extract the essential information contained in 10 different country rankings, measuring different country characteristics such as GDP per capita, human development, quality of governance, environmental quality and business environment. Globally, the first principal component accounts for about 82 per cent of the variation across countries, and the first three principal components account for over 92 pe…
Fiscal Federalism
This chapter examines the fiscal aspects of federalism as enshrined in the Indian Constitution. It gives an overview of the original structures of fiscal federalism in India, including assignments of spending and revenue and mechanisms and institutions for making transfers across different government levels. It reviews constitutional amendments that have occurred since the adoption of the Constitution, from changes in expenditure and revenue auth…
Other One Percent: Indians in America
One of the most remarkable stories of immigration in the last half century is that of Indians to the United States. People of Indian origin make up a little over one percent of the American population now, up from barely half a percent at the turn of the millennium. Not only has its recent growth been extraordinary but this population from a developing nation with low human capital is now the most-educated and highest-income group in the world's …
The Other One Percent: Indians in America
One of the most remarkable stories of immigration in the last half-century is that of Indians to the United States. People of Indian origin make up a little over 1 percent of the American population now, up from barely half a percent at the turn of the millennium. Not only has its recent growth been extraordinary, but this population from a developing nation with low human capital is now the most educated and highest income group in the world's m…
Guest Editor’s Introduction: India’s Economy: Growth, Governance, and Reform
Decent Work and Economic Growth
Does too much finance harm economic growth?
The Oxford Handbook of the Economics of the Pacific Rim
Contributors Introduction Inderjit N. Kaur and Nirvikar Singh PART I. THE NATURAL WORLD: HISTORY, CLIMATE, AND RISKS 1. The History of Biological Exploitation on the Pacific Rim, Eric Jones 2. Climate Risk and Response in the Pacific Rim, David Roland-Holst 3. Natural Disasters and Economic Policy for the Pacific Rim, Ilan Noy PART II. PEOPLE: MIGRATION, DEMOGRAPHICS AND HUMAN CAPITAL 4. International Labor Migration in the Pacific Rim, Philip Ma…
Oxford Handbook of the Economics of the Pacific Rim
"A survey of the economy of the Pacific Rim region"
Financial Integration and Financial Development in East Asia
This article analyzes differences in patterns of financial development across the major East Asian economies, particularly for the three largest economies of the region (China, Japan and South Korea), in the context of the possibilities for greater regional financial integration. It argues that these differences in patterns of financial development present an economic challenge to regional financial integration efforts, in addition to differences…
Trade Dynamics in the East Asian Miracle: A Time Series Analysis of US–East Asia Commodity Trade, 1962–1992
This article examines the composition of bilateral trade between the United States and eight Asian Pacific economies from 1962 to 1992. Two complementary time series analyses of individual commodities at the SITC four-digit level indicate that significant changes occurred in trade composition during this period. It uses a measure of normalized trade balances, developed by Gagnon and Rose (1995). For the eight bilateral trade relationships, commod…
Expenditure Governance and IT: Assessing India's Situation and Potential
there is no abstract
Indian Agriculture: Challenges of Globalization
Book Review| July 01 2010 Indian Agriculture: Challenges of Globalization Indian Agriculture: Challenges of Globalization. A. Vinayak Reddy and M. Yadagira Charyulu. Nirvikar Singh Nirvikar Singh Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Agricultural History (2010) 84 (3): 418–419. https://doi.org/10.1215/00021482-84.3.418 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Nirvikar Singh; Indian Agriculture:…
The Management of International Rivers as Demands Grow and Supplies Tighten: India, China, Nepal, Pakistan, Bangladesh
In this study, we describe the challenges of managing Himalayan rivers as a result of climate change and the industrialization and economic growth of India and China. We discuss a range of conceptual issues relevant for negotiations over the management of Himalayan rivers. We introduce the concept of multi-track diplomacy, and apply it to the case of international river management, in the context of innovations incorporated in five international …
The Political Economy of India's Fiscal Federal System and its Reform
This article examines recent and potential reforms in India's fiscal federal system. We summarize key federal institutions in India, including tax and expenditure assignments, and mechanisms for Center-state transfers. We discuss the institutional process by which reforms can and do take place, including the role of academics, political influences, and especially institutions such as the Finance Commission. In contrast to the past, recent commiss…
Negative reciprocity
Some Economic Consequences of India's Institutions of Governance: A Conceptual Framework
This paper examines the functioning of some of India’s institutions of governance, namely, the legislative and executive branches of government, the judiciary, and the bureaucracy, from an instrumental, economic perspective. Governance is analyzed along three dimensions: (1) the degree of commitment or durability of laws and rules, (2) the degree of enforcement of these laws, and (3) the degree of decentralization of jurisdictions with respect to…
Information Technology and Broad-Based Development: Preliminary Lessons from North India
Miracles and Reform in India: Policy Reflections
Research Article| October 01 2002 Miracles and Reform in India: Policy Reflections Nirvikar Singh Nirvikar Singh Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Asian Survey (2002) 42 (5): 708–722. https://doi.org/10.1525/as.2002.42.5.708 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Ico…
Limited liability, contractual choice, and the tenancy ladder
Impediments and Innovation in International Rivers: The Waters of South Asia
The Political Economy of India's Fiscal Federal System and its Reform
This article examines recent and potential reforms in India's fiscal federal system. We summarize key federal institutions in India, including tax and expenditure assignments, and mechanisms for Center-state transfers. We discuss the institutional process by which reforms can and do take place, including the role of academics, political influences, and especially institutions such as the Finance Commission. In contrast to the past, recent commiss…
Rent seeking and rent setting with asymmetric effectiveness of lobbying
Exports and growth
Information Technology and Broad-Based Development: Preliminary Lessons from North India
The composition of U.S.–East Asia trade and changing comparative advantage
The Management of International Rivers as Demands Grow and Supplies Tighten: India, China, Nepal, Pakistan, Bangladesh
In this study, we describe the challenges of managing Himalayan rivers as a result of climate change and the industrialization and economic growth of India and China. We discuss a range of conceptual issues relevant for negotiations over the management of Himalayan rivers. We introduce the concept of multi-track diplomacy, and apply it to the case of international river management, in the context of innovations incorporated in five international …
Theories of governance and development: How does India’s experience fit
This paper takes on the apparent paradox of India’s combination of durable democracy, capable bureaucracy, but a deficient development trajectory. It begins by outlining the nature of the problem. Then it summarizes and compares some significant approaches to drawing connections from governance institutions to development outcomes. Next, it reviews some of the contributions to understanding India’s political economy in the last few decades. Final…
Who owns religion? Scholars, Sikhs and the public sphere
This paper revisits the question “Who Owns Religion?”, in the context of a recent analysis of debates in religious studies, marked by controversy and friction between members of religious traditions and scholars writing about those traditions. Habermas’s concept of a public sphere is at the center of an analysis by Laurie Patton that uses six case studies, including one involving the Sikh tradition. The paper reviews this conceptual framing and t…
Miracles and Reform in India: Policy Reflections
Research Article| October 01 2002 Miracles and Reform in India: Policy Reflections Nirvikar Singh Nirvikar Singh Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Asian Survey (2002) 42 (5): 708–722. https://doi.org/10.1525/as.2002.42.5.708 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Ico…
Limited liability, contractual choice, and the tenancy ladder
Price and Quantity Competition in a Differentiated Duopoly
This article analyzes the duality of prices and quantities in a differentiated duopoly. It is shown that if firms can only make two types of binding contracts with consumers, the price contract and the quantity contract, it is a dominant strategy for each firm to choose the quantity (price) contract, provided the goods are substitutes (complements).
Exports and growth
Theories of Sharecropping
Surveys the theoretical literature on the rationale of sharecropping, with special emphasis on the roles of risk‐sharing, incentive provision, wealth constraints, and screening in an environment of pervasive uncertainty, and information asymmetry.
Transfer, Adoption and Diffusion of Technology for Small and Cottage Industries
The composition of U.S.–East Asia trade and changing comparative advantage
Rent seeking and rent setting with asymmetric effectiveness of lobbying
Impediments and Innovation in International Rivers: The Waters of South Asia
Limited liability, contractual choice, and the tenancy ladder
Miracles and Reform in India: Policy Reflections
Research Article| October 01 2002 Miracles and Reform in India: Policy Reflections Nirvikar Singh Nirvikar Singh Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Asian Survey (2002) 42 (5): 708–722. https://doi.org/10.1525/as.2002.42.5.708 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Ico…
Negative reciprocity
Some Economic Consequences of India's Institutions of Governance: A Conceptual Framework
This paper examines the functioning of some of India’s institutions of governance, namely, the legislative and executive branches of government, the judiciary, and the bureaucracy, from an instrumental, economic perspective. Governance is analyzed along three dimensions: (1) the degree of commitment or durability of laws and rules, (2) the degree of enforcement of these laws, and (3) the degree of decentralization of jurisdictions with respect to…
Information Technology and Broad-Based Development: Preliminary Lessons from North India
The Political Economy of India's Fiscal Federal System and its Reform
This article examines recent and potential reforms in India's fiscal federal system. We summarize key federal institutions in India, including tax and expenditure assignments, and mechanisms for Center-state transfers. We discuss the institutional process by which reforms can and do take place, including the role of academics, political influences, and especially institutions such as the Finance Commission. In contrast to the past, recent commiss…
The Management of International Rivers as Demands Grow and Supplies Tighten: India, China, Nepal, Pakistan, Bangladesh
In this study, we describe the challenges of managing Himalayan rivers as a result of climate change and the industrialization and economic growth of India and China. We discuss a range of conceptual issues relevant for negotiations over the management of Himalayan rivers. We introduce the concept of multi-track diplomacy, and apply it to the case of international river management, in the context of innovations incorporated in five international …
Expenditure Governance and IT: Assessing India's Situation and Potential
there is no abstract
Indian Agriculture: Challenges of Globalization
Book Review| July 01 2010 Indian Agriculture: Challenges of Globalization Indian Agriculture: Challenges of Globalization. A. Vinayak Reddy and M. Yadagira Charyulu. Nirvikar Singh Nirvikar Singh Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Agricultural History (2010) 84 (3): 418–419. https://doi.org/10.1215/00021482-84.3.418 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Nirvikar Singh; Indian Agriculture:…
Trade Dynamics in the East Asian Miracle: A Time Series Analysis of US–East Asia Commodity Trade, 1962–1992
This article examines the composition of bilateral trade between the United States and eight Asian Pacific economies from 1962 to 1992. Two complementary time series analyses of individual commodities at the SITC four-digit level indicate that significant changes occurred in trade composition during this period. It uses a measure of normalized trade balances, developed by Gagnon and Rose (1995). For the eight bilateral trade relationships, commod…
Does too much finance harm economic growth?
The Oxford Handbook of the Economics of the Pacific Rim
Contributors Introduction Inderjit N. Kaur and Nirvikar Singh PART I. THE NATURAL WORLD: HISTORY, CLIMATE, AND RISKS 1. The History of Biological Exploitation on the Pacific Rim, Eric Jones 2. Climate Risk and Response in the Pacific Rim, David Roland-Holst 3. Natural Disasters and Economic Policy for the Pacific Rim, Ilan Noy PART II. PEOPLE: MIGRATION, DEMOGRAPHICS AND HUMAN CAPITAL 4. International Labor Migration in the Pacific Rim, Philip Ma…
Oxford Handbook of the Economics of the Pacific Rim
"A survey of the economy of the Pacific Rim region"
Financial Integration and Financial Development in East Asia
This article analyzes differences in patterns of financial development across the major East Asian economies, particularly for the three largest economies of the region (China, Japan and South Korea), in the context of the possibilities for greater regional financial integration. It argues that these differences in patterns of financial development present an economic challenge to regional financial integration efforts, in addition to differences…
Guest Editor’s Introduction: India’s Economy: Growth, Governance, and Reform
Decent Work and Economic Growth
The Other One Percent: Indians in America
One of the most remarkable stories of immigration in the last half-century is that of Indians to the United States. People of Indian origin make up a little over 1 percent of the American population now, up from barely half a percent at the turn of the millennium. Not only has its recent growth been extraordinary, but this population from a developing nation with low human capital is now the most educated and highest income group in the world's m…
Fiscal Federalism
This chapter examines the fiscal aspects of federalism as enshrined in the Indian Constitution. It gives an overview of the original structures of fiscal federalism in India, including assignments of spending and revenue and mechanisms and institutions for making transfers across different government levels. It reviews constitutional amendments that have occurred since the adoption of the Constitution, from changes in expenditure and revenue auth…
Other One Percent: Indians in America
One of the most remarkable stories of immigration in the last half century is that of Indians to the United States. People of Indian origin make up a little over one percent of the American population now, up from barely half a percent at the turn of the millennium. Not only has its recent growth been extraordinary but this population from a developing nation with low human capital is now the most-educated and highest-income group in the world's …
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