Deregulation and privatization scenario in India

Airline Deregulation and Privatization in the Uk

I-26: IVF Scenario in India

The development of assisted reproductive technologies (ARTs) in India began with efforts to create “test tube babies” with in vitro fertilization in the 1980s. But rather than commit public funding to advance such research, the Indian government withheld the use of government funds for research on human embryos, largely as a byproduct of the debate over population control. India with a populati...

Using Experiments to Inform the Privatization/deregulation Movement in Electricity

At the University of Arizona, electronic trading (now commonly known as e-commerce) in the experimental laboratory began in 1976 when Arlington Williams conducted the initial experiments testing the first electronic “double-auction” trading system, which he had programmed on the Plato operating system. The term “double auction” refers to the oral bid-ask sequential trading system used since the...

Deregulation and Privatization of Britain's Local Bus Industry

In 1986 the British government deregulated the majority of the local bus industry, cut the amount of a subsidy, and privatized many public bus companies. Unit costs have declined significantly, cross-subsidies have been reduced, and there has been innovation in operating practices. However, mergers have increased concentration, and demand has declined due to the turmoil of service changes and t...

Deregulation, Misallocation, and Size: Evidence from India

This paper examines the impact of the deregulation of compulsory industrial licensing in India on firm-size dynamics and the reallocation of resources within industries over time. Following deregulation, we find that the extent of resource misallocation declines and a considerable thickening of the left-hand tail of the firm-size distribution suggesting a significant increase in the number of s...