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• Technical Note | HBS Case Collection | 2013

  Monetary Policy and Bank Supervision

  Lakshmi Iyer

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  Iyer, Lakshmi. "Monetary Policy and Bank Supervision." Harvard Business School Technical Note 713-073, March 2013.

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• Article | Economic & Political Weekly | February 9, 2013

  Caste and Entrepreneurship in India

  Lakshmi Iyer, Tarun Khanna and Ashutosh Varshney

  It is now widely accepted that the lower castes have risen in Indian politics. Has there been a corresponding change in the economy? Using comprehensive data on enterprise ownership from the Economic Censuses of 1990, 1998, and 2005, we document substantial caste differences in entrepreneurship across India. The Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes are significantly under-represented in the ownership of enterprises and the share of the workforce employed by them. These differences are widespread across all states, have decreased very modestly between 1990 and 2005, and cannot be attributed to broad differences in access to physical or human capital.

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  Iyer, Lakshmi, Tarun Khanna, and Ashutosh Varshney. "Caste and Entrepreneurship in India." Economic & Political Weekly 48, no. 6 (February 9, 2013): 52–60.

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• Article | American Economic Journal: Applied Economics | October, 2012

  The Power of Political Voice: Women's Political Representation and Crime in India

  Lakshmi Iyer, Anandi Mani, Prachi Mishra and Petia Topalova

  Using state-level variation in the timing of political reforms, we find that an increase in female representation in local government induces a large and significant rise in documented crimes against women in India. Our evidence suggests that this increase is good news, driven primarily by greater reporting rather than greater incidence of such crimes. In contrast, we find no increase in crimes against men or gender-neutral crimes. We also examine the effectiveness of alternative forms of political representation: large-scale membership of women in local councils affects crime against them more than their presence in higher level leadership positions.

  Keywords: Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Government and Politics; Crime and Corruption; Leadership; Gender Characteristics; Performance Effectiveness; Rank and Position; India;

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  Iyer, Lakshmi, Anandi Mani, Prachi Mishra, and Petia Topalova. "The Power of Political Voice: Women's Political Representation and Crime in India." American Economic Journal: Applied Economics 4, no. 4 (October, 2012): 165–193.

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