Deregulation and Firm Investment : Evidence from the Dismantling of the License System in India

We analyse the impact of deregulatory reforms in India during the 1990s, which eliminated compulsory industrial licensing, on manufacturing firms’ investment decisions. We find an economically and statistically significant positive effect of delicensing on investment. We also show that firms in stat...

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Main Authors: Kandilov, Ivan T., Leblebicioglu, Asli, Manghnani, Ruchita
Format: Journal Article
Language:en_US
Published: Taylor and Francis 2017
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10986/27237