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When No Law is Better than a Good Law
No full textThis paper argues, both theoretically and empirically, that sometimes no security law may be better than a good security law that is not enforced. The first part of the paper formalizes the sufficient conditions under which this happens for any law. The second part of the paper shows that a specific security law - the law prohibiting insider trading - may satisfy these conditions, which implies that our theory predicts that it is sometimes better not to have an insider trading law than to have an insider trading law but not enforce it. The third part of the paper takes this prediction to the data. We revisit the panel data set assembled by Bhattacharya and Daouk (2002), who showed that enforcement, not the mere existence, of insider trading laws reduced the cost of equity in a country. We find that the cost of equity actually rises when a country introduces an insider trading law, but does not enforce it.
Rethinking The Third World: International Development and World Politics by Mark T. Berger and Heloise Weber
No full textBerger, Mark T. and Heloise Weber. Rethinking The Third World: International Development and World Politics. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. Review by Preya Bhattacharya
Fables for All Ages
No full textTagore is a favorite author for me as a writer of poems bearing on the spiritual life. I was thus surprised to see him presented as a writer of fables. Alas, I fear that what is in this paperback book is not fables as I understand "fable." A T of C would have helped me realize that there are three longer works here, perhaps short stories or Novellen. I have to save enjoying them for a later time. For now, I include the book in the collection as a help to me and others who may expect something different from the book's title.Abanindranath Tagore, translated biy Manoshi Bhattachary
A new Poincare` inequality and its application to the regularity of minimizers of integral functionals with nonstandard growth
No full textSome remarks on the regularity of minimizers of integrals with anisotropic growth
No full textWe prove higher integrability for minimizers of some integrals of the calculus
of variations; such an improved integrability allows us to get existence of weak second
derivatives
On improved regularity of weak solutions of some degenerate, anisotropic elliptic systems
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Bounds for the variance of functions of random variables by orthogonal polynomials and Bhattacharya bounds
No full textUpper and lower bounds for the variance of a function g of a random variable X are obtained by expanding g in a series of orthogonal polynomials associated with the distribution of X or by using the convergence of Bhattacharya bounds for exponential families of distribution.variance bounds Chernoff's inequality orthogonal polynomials exponential families Bhattacharya bounds
Letter, [Author unclear] to Paulina T. Merritt
No full textHandwritten letter to Paulina Merritt from an unknown author, October 1, 1876.
A new species of the genus Antennoseius (Ascidae: Mesostigmata) from India
No full textBhattacharyya, A. K., Sanyal, A. K., Bhattacharya, T. (2003): A new species of the genus Antennoseius (Ascidae: Mesostigmata) from India. Zootaxa 295: 1-7, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.15635
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