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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.

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 14, 2023 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…

A time to throw stones, a time to reap: How long till democracy improves outcomes?

Posted on November 18, 2021November 18, 2021 by Nikhilesh Sinha

Summary of JOIE article (First View 6 July 2021) by Pierre-Guillaume Méon, Centre Emile Bernheim and Dulbéa, Université libre de Bruxelles, and Khalid Sekkat, Centre Emile Bernheim, Université libre de Bruxelles. The full article is available on the JOIE website. Empirical studies of the impact of democracy on growth long remained inconclusive as the meta-study…

Olympics, Inequality and Institutions

Posted on November 15, 2021November 18, 2021 by Nikhilesh Sinha

Summary of JOIE article (First View 30 November 2020) by Vadim Kufenko, Institute of Economics, University of Hohenheim, Schloss, Germany and Vincent Geloso, Department of Economics and Finance, King’s University College, Ontario, Canada. The full article is available on the JOIE website. Does inequality affect economic outcomes? The recent surge in interest in the proper…

On legal bubbles: Shockwaves at the core of the digital economy

Posted on September 16, 2021November 15, 2021 by Nikhilesh Sinha

Summary of JOIE article ( First View 05 July 2021) by Marco Giraudo, Department of Law, University of Turin, Turin, Italy. The full article is available on the JOIE website. This article traces the main legal-economic dynamics underlying the rise of the personal data-driven economy and argues that a legal bubble has characterized its development so…

The evolution of the football jersey: An institutional perspective

Posted on June 8, 2021June 8, 2021 by Nikhilesh Sinha

Summary of JOIE article ( First View 11 May 2021) by David Butler and Robert Butler, Department of Economics, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland. The full article is available on the JOIE website. When a Malaysian consortium took control of Cardiff City Football Club in May 2010, I suspect very few would have predicted that a…

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