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Jayati Sarkar
Researcher at Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research
Publications - 27
Citations - 1753
Jayati Sarkar is an academic researcher from Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research. The author has contributed to research in topics: Corporate governance & Emerging markets. The author has an hindex of 16, co-authored 27 publications receiving 1561 citations.
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Large Shareholder Activism in Corporate Governance in Developing Countries: Evidence from India
Jayati Sarkar,Subrata Sarkar +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors provided evidence on the role of large shareholders in monitoring company value with respect to a developing and emerging economy, India, whose corporate governance system is a hybrid of the outsider-dominated market based systems of the UK and the US, and the insider-dominated bank-based systems of Germany and Japan.
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Board of Directors and Opportunistic Earnings Management: Evidence from India:
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the impact of board characteristics on opportunistic earnings management in India, a large emerging economy, using a sample of 500 large companies over a two-year period, and found that diligent boards are associated with lower earnings management while boards that have directors with multiple appointments exhibit higher earnings management.
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Multiple Board Appointments and Firm Performance in Emerging Economies: Evidence from India ∗
Jayati Sarkar,Subrata Sarkar +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors extend the existing literature on multiple directorships in two ways; first, by providing additional evidence on its effect on firm performance, but with respect to an emerging economy, India, and secondly, by suggesting an alternative measure of directorial "busyness" that is more general in its applicability compared to those that have been applied in existing literature.
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Does ownership always matter? Evidence from the Indian banking industry
TL;DR: In this paper, a study of the Indian banking industry confirms the expectation that, in the absence of well-functioning capital markets, there may not be significant differences in the performance of private and public enterprises.
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Technological Diffusion: Alternative Theories and Historical Evidence
TL;DR: This article presented an interpretive survey of the neoclassical and evolutionary approaches to modeling the process of technological diffusion, with an orientation that is distinct in two important respects from existing surveys.