Ajit Singh

United Nations

New York, NY 10017

United States

University of Cambridge

Professor Emeritus

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Shareholder Protection and Stock Market Development: An Empirical Test of the Legal Origins Hypothesis

University of Cambridge, CBR Working Paper, ECGI - Law Working Paper No. 108/2008
Number of pages: 53 Posted: 20 Feb 2008 Last Revised: 17 Nov 2010
John Armour, Simon Deakin, Prabirjit Sarkar, Mathias Siems and Ajit Singh
University of Oxford - Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge - Centre for Business Research (CBR), University of Cambridge - Centre for Business Research (CBR), European University Institute (EUI) and United Nations
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law and finance, shareholder rights, corporate governance, corporate finance, legal origins, comparative law

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Capital Structure, Rates of Return and Financing Corporate Growth: Comparing Developed and Emerging Markets, 1994-2000

Number of pages: 35 Posted: 01 May 2003
Jack D. Glen and Ajit Singh
International Finance Corporation (IFC) and United Nations
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Capital structure, rates of return, emerging markets

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An End to Consensus? The Selective Impact of Corporate Law Reform on Financial Development

University of Cambridge Faculty of Law Research Paper No. 40/2011, ECGI - Law Working Paper No. 182/2011
Number of pages: 33 Posted: 28 Sep 2011 Last Revised: 10 Nov 2011
Simon Deakin, Prabirjit Sarkar and Ajit Singh
University of Cambridge - Centre for Business Research (CBR), University of Cambridge - Centre for Business Research (CBR) and United Nations
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legal origins, company law, shareholder rights, creditor rights, financial development

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How Intensive is Competition in the Emerging Markets? An Analysis of Corporate Rates of Return from Nine Emerging Markets

IMF Working Paper No. 99/32
Number of pages: 44 Posted: 12 Feb 2006
Jack D. Glen, Ajit Singh and Rudolph Matthias
International Finance Corporation (IFC), United Nations and University of Cambridge - Faculty of Economics
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Corporate Rates of Return, Intensity of Competition, Emerging Markets

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Product Market Competition, Corporate Governance and Legal Origin

Number of pages: 37 Posted: 26 Apr 2012
Prabirjit Sarkar, Simon Deakin, Ajit Singh and Dominic Heesang Chai
University of Cambridge - Centre for Business Research (CBR), University of Cambridge - Centre for Business Research (CBR), United Nations and The University of Manchester - Manchester Business School
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legal origin, corporate governance, shareholder protection, product market competition, persistence of profits

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Portfolio Construction and Tail Risk

Posted: 25 Jan 2015 Last Revised: 20 Aug 2019
Chris Downing, Ananth Madhavan, Ajit Singh and Alex Ulitsky
BlackRock, BlackRock, Inc., United Nations and BlackRock

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tail risk, portfolio construction, mean-variance optimization, conditional value at risk

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Law, Finance and Development Further Analyses of Longitudinal Data

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Law, Finance and Development Further Analyses of Longitudinal Data

Cambridge Journal of Economics, March, 2010
Posted: 07 Oct 2009 Last Revised: 30 Jun 2011
Prabirjit Sarkar and Ajit Singh
University of Cambridge - Centre for Business Research (CBR) and United Nations

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Shareholder protection, Corporate Governance, Stock market development, Law and Finance

Law, Finance and Development: Further Analyses of Longitudinal Data

Cambridge Journal of Economics, Vol. 34, Issue 2, pp. 325-346, 2010
Posted: 01 Mar 2010
Prabirjit Sarkar and Ajit Singh
University of Cambridge - Centre for Business Research (CBR) and United Nations

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Shareholder protection, Corporate governance, Stock market development, Law and finance

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Better to Be Rough and Relevant than to Be Precise and Irrelevant: Reddaway's Legacy to Economics

Cambridge Journal of Economics, Vol. 33, Issue 3, pp. 363-379, 2009
Posted: 06 May 2009
Ajit Singh
United Nations

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Reddaway-type economics, economic methodology, Keynes-Tinbergen controversy, rebalancing economics

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Globalization and the Regulation of FDI: New Proposals from the European Community and Japan

Contributions to Political Economy, Vol. 24, pp. 99-121, 2005
Posted: 29 Feb 2008
Ajit Singh
United Nations

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International Capital Flows: Identifying the Gender Dimension

World Development, Vol. 28, Issue 7, July 2000
Posted: 10 Jul 2001
Ajit Singh and Ann Zammit
United Nations and University of Cambridge - Faculty of Human, Social, and Political Science

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financial crises, gender, international financial system

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The Effects of Hyper-Inflation on Accounting Ratios: Financing Corporate Growth in Industrial Economies

International Finance Corporation, Department of Economics Working Paper No. 3
Posted: 17 Oct 1999
Geoffrey Whittington, Victoria Saporta and Ajit Singh
University of Cambridge - Faculty of Economics and Politics, Bank of England and United Nations

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Corporate Financial Patterns in Industrializing Economies: A Comparative International Study

International Finance Corporation, Department of Economics Working Paper No. 2
Posted: 02 Sep 1999
Ajit Singh
United Nations

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