UC Santa Cruz - Nirvikar Singh. Working Papers

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Working Papers: Nirvikar Singh

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Indian Economic Reform and Federalism

Water Disputes, Institutions and Policies

East Asian Growth and Trade

Economic Theory

(Contests, mechanism design, evolutionary economics, rent-seeking, bargaining and sharecropping)

Labor Standards

Information Technology and Development

Electronic Commerce

Indian Economic Reform and Federalism

· Nirvikar Singh “The Idea of South Asia and the Role of the Middle Class,” March 2006

· Nirvikar Singh “State Finances in India: A Case for Systemic Reform,” March 2006

· Nirvikar Singh and Garima Vasishtha. "Some Patterns in Center-State Fiscal Transfers in India: An Illustrative Analysis", September 2004.

· Nirvikar Singh. "India’s System of Intergovernmental Fiscal Relations", August 2004.

· Nirvikar Singh and T. N. Srinivasan. "Foreign Capital, Inflation, Sterilization, Crowding-Out and Growth: Some Illustrative Models", May 2004.

· Nirvikar Singh and T. N. Srinvasan. "Fiscal Policy in India: Lessons and Priorities", February 2004.

· M. Govinda Rao and Nirvikar Singh. "Asymmetric Federalism in India", April 2004.

· M. Govinda Rao and Nirvikar Singh. "The Political Economy of India’s Federal System and its Reform", April 2004.

· Nirvikar Singh. "Some Economic Consequences of India's Institutions of Governance: A Conceptual Framework", December 2003.

· Nirvikar Singh, Laveesh Bhandari, Aoyu Chen and Aarti Khare, "Regional Inequality in India: A Fresh Look", December 2002.

· Nirvikar Singh and T.N. Srinivasan, "Indian Federalism, Economic Reform and Globalization", May 2002.

· M. Govinda Rao and Nirvikar Singh, "Federalism in India: Political Economy and Reform", September 2001.

· M. Govinda Rao and Nirvikar Singh. "The Assignment of Taxes and Expenditures in India", March 1999.

· M. Govinda Rao and Nirvikar Singh. "Fiscal Overlapping, Concurrency and Competition in Indian Federalism", March 1999.

· M. Govinda Rao and Nirvikar Singh. "Intergovernmental Transfers: Rationale, Design and Indian Experience", December 1998.

· M. Govinda Rao and Nirvikar Singh. "An Analysis of Explicit and Implicit Intergovernmental Transfers in India", December 1998.

· Nirvikar Singh. "The Past and the Future of Economics in India: In Search of Lost Time", May 1998.

· Nirvikar Singh. "Miracles and Reform: Policy Reflections for India", March 1998.

· Nirvikar Singh. "Issues in Local Government Reform in India", November 1997.

· Nirvikar Singh. "On Federalism and Reform in India", November 1997.

· Deepali Singhal Kohli and Nirvikar Singh. "The Green Revolution in Punjab, India: The Economics of Technological Change", September 1997.

· Nirvikar Singh. "The Economic Consequences of India's Institutions of Governance", November 1996.

· Kenneth Kletzer and Nirvikar Singh. "The Political Economy of Indian Fiscal Federalism", July 1996.

· Nirvikar Singh. "Governance and Reform in India", July 1996.

Water Disputes, Institutions and Policies

Ben Crow and Nirvikar Singh, “Floods and International Relations in South Asia: An Assessment of Multi-Track Diplomacy,” forthcoming in Peter Mollinga, ed., Floods in South Asia: South Asia Consortium for Interdisciplinary Water Resources Studies (forthcoming, Sage)

· Nirvikar Singh and Alan Richards. "Inter State Water Disputes in India: Institutions and Policies", October 2001

· Alan Richards and Nirvikar Singh. "No Easy Exit: Property Rights, Markets, and Negotiations over Water", September 2000.

· Ben Crow and Nirvikar Singh. "Impediments and Innovation in International Rivers: The Waters of South Asia", August 1999.

· Alan Richards and Nirvikar Singh. "Two Level Negotiations in Bargaining over Water", December 1996.

· Alan Richards and Nirvikar Singh. "Water and Federalism: India's Institutions Governing Inter-State River Waters", June 1996.

East Asian Growth and Trade

· Terrie Carolan and Nirvikar Singh, "Time Series Analysis of U.S.-East Asia Commodity Trade, 1962-1992", May 2004.

· Gaofeng Han, Kaliappa Kalirajan and Nirvikar Singh, "Productivity, Efficiency and Economic Growth: East Asia and the Rest of the World", 2003.

· Gaofeng Han, Kaliappa Kalirajan and Nirvikar Singh, "Productivity and Economic Growth in East Asia: Innovation, Efficiency and Accumulation", October 2001.

· Terrie Carolan, Nirvikar Singh and Cyrus Talati. "The Composition of U.S. - East Asia Trade and Changing Comparative Advantage", November 1997.

· Nirvikar Singh and Hung Trieu, "The Role of R&D in Explaining Total Factor Productivity Growth in Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan", September 1996.

· Nirvikar Singh and Hung Trieu, "Total Factor Productivity Growth in Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan", July 1996.

Economic Theory

(Contests, mechanism design, evolutionary economics, rent-seeking, bargaining and sharecropping)

· Pranab K. Bardhan and Nirvikar Singh, "Inequality, Coalitions and Collective Action", May 2004.

· Daniel Friedman and Nirvikar Singh, "Vengefulness Evolves in Small Groups", January 2004.

· Daniel Friedman and Nirvikar Singh, "Negative Reciprocity: The Coevolution of Memes and Genes", December 2003.

· Nirvikar Singh, "Nash Bargaining versus Market Outcomes", September 2002.

· Daniel Friedman and Nirvikar Singh, "Equilibrium Vengeance", July 2002, revised April 2006 (figures).

· Nirvikar Singh and Donald Wittman, "Implementation with Partial Verification", August 2000.

· Nirvikar Singh and Donald Wittman, "Contests Where There is Variation in the Marginal Productivity of Effort", August 2000.

· Daniel Friedman and Nirvikar Singh, "On the Viability of Vengeance", May 1999.

· Tridip Ray and Nirvikar Singh, "A Note on 'Limited Liability, Wealth Differences and Tenancy Contracts in Agrarian Economies'", April 1998.

· Inderjit Kohli and Nirvikar Singh, "A Model of Inequality and Interest Group Politics", October 1997.

· Nirvikar Singh, "Nash Bargaining with the Option to Wait", September 1996.

Labor Standards

Nirvikar Singh, “International Labor Standards: From Theory to Policy,” in Andrew P. Morriss and Samuel Estreicher, ed., Cross-Border Human Resources, Labor and Employment Issues: Kluwer Law International, pp. 795-854, 2005

Nirvikar Singh, "The Impact of International Labor Standards: A Survey of Economic Theory", October 2001.

Information Technology and Development

Nirvikar Singh, “Crossing a Chasm: Technologies, Institutions and Policies for Developing a Regional IT Industry,” forthcoming in conference volume, ed. V. Baskar and V. Gayathri, Sage Publications

Nirvikar Singh, "Information Technology and Rural Development in India", March 2004.

· Nirvikar Singh, "Information Technology and India’s Economic Development", July 2002.

· P.D. Kaushik and Nirvikar Singh, "Information Technology and Broad-Based Development: Preliminary Lessons from North India", July 2002.

· Nirvikar Singh, "Information Technology as an Engine of Broad-Based Growth in India", February 2002.

Electronic Commerce

· Nirvikar Singh, “The Digital Economy: An Overview,” in The Internet Security Handbook, Volume 1, Hossein Bidgoli, ed., Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, pp. 15-36, 2006

Nirvikar Singh, “Digital Economy,” in The Internet Encyclopedia, Volume 1, ed. H. Bidgoli, pp. 477-492, 2005

Nirvikar Singh, “Analyzing Change: Demand, Organizational Structures and Supplier Relationships,” Metamorphosis, 2(1&2), pp. 97-99

· Steven Anderson, Daniel Friedman, Garrett Milam and Nirvikar Singh, "Buy it Now: A Hybrid Internet Market Institution", April 2004.

· Steven Anderson, Daniel Friedman, Garrett Milam and Nirvikar Singh, "Seller Strategies on eBay", April 2004.

The following are draft chapters of a book on electronic commerce. I am currently revising them for publication by Prentice Hall, which has the copyright on this material:

Chapter 1: E-Commerce and the New Economy

Chapter 2: Technology Overview

Chapter 3: Law Overview

Chapter 4: Economic Principles Overview

Chapter 5: Firms and Industries

Chapter 6: Households

Chapter 7: The Organization of Markets

Chapter 8: Intermediaries

Chapter 9: New Types of Products and Services

Chapter 10: New Types of Firms

Chapter 11: The Changing Nature of Firms

Chapter 12: Changing Organization of Markets and Payments