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Author: Nikhilesh Sinha

Nikhilesh Sinha teaches courses at the Hult International Business School London, where he is also a Research Fellow. While his primary discipline is economics, his research draws on the wider social sciences and is focused on issues facing the poor in developing countries, particularly in Asia and Africa. He has published most recently on rental housing and on the 2010 Microfinance Crisis in India.

Is there an enduring institutional oligopoly in economics?

Posted on September 21, 2022September 21, 2022 by Nikhilesh Sinha

Summary of JOIE article (16 September 2022) by Mathias Aistleitner, Jakob Kapeller, and Dominik Kronberger, Institute for Comprehensive Analysis of the Economy (ICAE), Johannes Kepler University, Linz, Austria. The full article is available on the JOIE website. Reflections on the paper “The Authors of Economics Journals Revisited: Evidence from a Large-Scale Replication of Hodgson &…

Environmental economics in Classical Athens

Posted on September 21, 2022September 21, 2022 by Nikhilesh Sinha

Summary of JOIE article (25 August 2022) by Emmanouil M. L. Economou, George E. Halkos, and Nicholas C. Kyriazis, Department of Economics, University of Thessaly. The full article is available on the JOIE website. In this paper we present a series of environmental policies that were implemented by the city-state of Athens during the Classical…

Partisan politics of bank lending

Posted on September 21, 2022September 21, 2022 by Nikhilesh Sinha

Summary of JOIE article (18 August 2022) by Vincent Tawiah. The full article authored by Vincent Tawiah, DCU Business School, Dublin City University, Dublin, Ireland, Sivathaasan Nadarajah, Department of Accounting, Finance and Economics, Griffith Business School, Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia, Md Samsul Alam and Tom Allen, Leicester Castle Business School, De Montfort University, Leicester, UK…

Beyond Private Property Versus Public Property:

Posted on September 19, 2022September 19, 2022 by Nikhilesh Sinha

The Solution to Douglass. C. North’s Puzzle Concerning China’s Household Responsibility System Summary of JOIE article (15 October 2021) by Simon Deakin and Gaofeng Meng, Centre for Business Research, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK. The full article is available on the JOIE website. The dominant theory of property in economics views property rights as individualised and…

The Dynamic Efficiency of Gifting

Posted on September 19, 2022September 19, 2022 by Nikhilesh Sinha

Summary of JOIE article (18 August 2022) by Anthony Gill, Department of Political Science,  University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, and Michael D. Thomas, Department of Economics and Finance, Heider College of Business, Creighton University, Omaha, Nebraska. The full article is available on the JOIE website. In Scroogenomics, Joel Waldfogel argues that gifting creates enormous deadweight…

Shortlist for the 2022 Elinor Ostrom Prize

Posted on June 12, 2022June 12, 2022 by Nikhilesh Sinha

The following articles have made the short-list for this year’s Elinor Ostrom Prize: Peter Grajzl and Peter Murrell, “A Machine-Learning History of English Caselaw and Legal Ideas Prior to the Industrial Revolution I: Generating and Interpreting the Estimates“, JOIE 17(1): 1-19 and “A Machine-Learning History of English Caselaw and Legal Ideas Prior to the Industrial Revolution II: Applications“, JOIE 17(2):…

Crafting of cognitive institutions for overcoming the Covid-19 pandemic

Posted on March 11, 2022September 21, 2022 by Nikhilesh Sinha

Summary of the JOIE article (24 January 2022) by Daniil Frolov, Faculty of Economics and Management, Volgograd State Technical University, Russia. The full article is available on the JOIE website. National governments are the main actors enforcing preventative measures to contain the COVID-19 pandemic, focusing on top-down policies and sanctions. Now it is becoming more…

Theory in closer contact with industrial life: American institutional economics on competition

Posted on March 8, 2022March 8, 2022 by Nikhilesh Sinha

Summary of JOIE article (14 September 2021) by Mathew T. Panhans, Federal Trade Commission, Washington, DC, USA and Reinhard Schumacher, University of Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany. The full article is available on the JOIE website. Antitrust and competition policy are back in vogue as of late. In March 2016, The Economist declared that “Profits are too high. America need…

Introduction to the special issue on institutions and culture in economic contexts

Posted on March 8, 2022March 8, 2022 by Nikhilesh Sinha

Summary of the introduction to the JOIE Vol 18 (1) special issue by Luca Andriani, Department of Management, Birkbeck University of London and Randolph Bruno, School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London. The full article is available on the JOIE website. This special issue aims to explore the role of institutions and…

Making reform and stability compatible: Elite redeployment in Japan

Posted on March 8, 2022March 8, 2022 by Nikhilesh Sinha

Summary of JOIE Article (First View 6 December 2021)by Makio Yamada, Institutes for Advanced Studies, University of Tokyo. The full article is available on the JOIE website. In this article, I provide an explanation of how Meiji Japan (Japan after the Meiji Restoration in the winter of 1867/8) achieved swift institutional improvement by making reform…

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