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Annual Conference

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Specialty Conference, Senior Fellows/Fellows

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May 2019

Fintech and Credit Scoring for the Millennial Generation

Sumit AGARWAL, Pulak GHOSH, Shashwat ALOK, Sudip GUPTA
Using a unique and proprietary loan-level data from a large Fintech firm in India, we analyze whether unstructured data regarding a consumer’s digital mobile footprint such as the type of mobile phone applications, number of applications on the phone, type of operating software used by a loan appl...
Keywords: FinTech, Loans, Digital Footprint, Credit
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Annual Conference

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Corporate Finance

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May 2018

Creditor Rights, Threat of Liquidation, and Labor-Capital Choice of Firms

Shashwat ALOK, Ritam CHAUREY, Vasudha NUKALA
In 2002, a legal reform introduced in India allowed secured creditors to seize and liquidate the defaulter’s assets. We study firms’ choice between capital and labor in response to these strengthened creditor rights by exploiting variation in their pre-policy proportion of collateralizable asset...
Keywords: Labor and Finance, creditor rights, Employment, Labor-Capital Choice, Labor Intensity, SARFAESI
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Annual Conference

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International Macroeconomics, Money & Banking, Senior Fellows/Fellows

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May 2017

Banking The Unbanked: What do 255 Million New Bank Accounts Reveal about Financial Access?

Sumit AGARWAL, Amit SERU, Pulak GHOSH, Shashwat ALOK, Soumya GHOSH, Tomasz PISKORSKI
In this ongoing study, we use the largest financial inclusion program in the world to study the role of financial inclusion on the unbanked and the real economy. Using administrative account level micro data, we find that the program led to 255 million new bank account openings in India (as of Novem...
Keywords: banking, Financial Inclusion, Financial Literacy, big data, Financial Access, savings, Spending, Debit Card, Consumer Finance, Household Finance
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Annual Conference

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Economic Transformation of Asia, Senior Fellows/Fellows

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May 2017

Government Employment Guarantee, Labor Supply and Firms Reaction: Evidence from the Largest Public Workfare Program in the World

Sumit AGARWAL, Shashwat ALOK, Prasanna TANTRI, Yakshup CHOPRA
Using establishment-level data, we examine the impact of the Indian government’s employment guarantee program on labor and firm behavior. We exploit the staggered implementation of the program for identification and find that the program led to a 10% reduction in the permanent workforce in firms. ...
Keywords: Workfare, Labor Markets, Labor Supply, Labor Scarcity, Capital Investments, Labor and Finance, Labor-Technology Substitution, firm performance, MNREGA, NREGS, NREGA
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