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Moral Hazard and Operations of Shell Companies

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In 2012, Jason Sharman presented a paper on "Financial Secrecy, society and vested interest" in Norway. The paper discussed whether the FATF laws to counter the anonymity issue of the shell companies effective? 

Solution: GraphViz Installation Error Python

Correctly installing GraphViz for python is a painstaking task. The reason is installation and PATH related issues while using pip. The problem intensifies if you are working on your work-related device that has restrictions with respect to installation and file/folder access.

Introduction to programming with MATLAB

This is one of the most interesting courses I have had on Coursera. The reason, apart from the quality of content and exhaustive content, is actually the interest and excitement with which the prof teaches it. His lectures by far are the most fun to listen to.

Practical ML on H2O

This coursera course provides a way to utilize H2O for applying Machine Learning Purposes. Note, this course has more focus on application and that on H2O.

Visualizing Indian Economy

Agriculture: The agricultural sector in India operates at extremely low productivity and the need for reforms in this sector is imperative. Observe that despite a large fraction of the population involved in agriculture, the agricultural value addition to the economy has declined significantly and has stagnated at lower levels. What it needs now is a big push by the government. 

Neuroeconomics: Review and Future Research Directions in the Arena of Marketing and Economics

The paper conducted a literature survey to provide perspicuous comprehension into the development of nexus between neuroscience, marketing, economics over the past decade.

Role of monetary policy on CO2 emissions in India

The study investigates the impact of monetary policy on CO2 emissions while controlling for income, trade, foreign direct investment (FDI) and accounting for structural breaks using annual data from 1971 to 2014. By utilizing the extended environmental Kuznets curve (EKC) framework and dynamic ARDL simulations, the results reveal that the Kuznets curve is a long-run phenomenon for India, not a short run. Moreover, interest rates are identified to possess a significantly positive relation with emissions in the short as well as long run. This indicates the sub-optimality of the present monetary policy for sustainable growth. Hence, it suggests incorporating environmental impacts into the central bank’s framework. Additionally, trade is found to be inelastic and weakly beneficial for the environment, while FDI is elastic and significantly detrimental. The latter evidence supports Pollution Haven Hypothesis. Further, following Itkonen (Itkonen, Energy, 2012) arguments, the study demonstrat...