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The Real Reason Middle Class Indians Can’t Afford to Buy Homes — and...
The first step in improving affordability is to release land supply in a planned and transparent manner. This will increase competition and put pressure on prices.House Prices in India: How High, and for How Long?
Shishir Gupta, Nandini Agnihotri and Annie George shed light on the state and dynamics of house prices in India by leveraging a unique dataset that gives house prices over the past 30 years.View: Time to Make RERA Roar
Channels of information flow in real estate are limited; buyers rely on the media, intermediaries or hearsay to obtain information. This leaves buyers in the dark, impeding their ability to distinguish between good- and bad-quality housing. Ill-equipped with little to no information, they may purchase homes mired in litigation.Do Mandatory Disclosures Squeeze the Lemons? The Case of Housing Markets...
The paper demonstrates that a mandatory disclosure law on housing projects can have important, pro-efficiency effects in a developing country, and suggests that such laws may be efficient in a regime of low-state capacity.Do Mandatory Disclosures Squeeze the Lemons? The Case of Housing Markets
The questions this paper answers are: what is the impact of mandatory disclosure of housing quality on prices? Do mandatory disclosures have differential impact across housing sub-markets and income groups?What Drives Media Reporting? | The Media Rumble 2022
What makes an event newsworthy? Shishir Gupta and Nandini Agnihotri shed light on what drives media reporting in this virtual session.What Drives the Media’s Coverage of Social Issues?
What influences media reporting? Shishir Gupta and Nandini Agnihotri's study explores reader interest as a factor that drives news coverage.What Drives Media Reporting?
Not only is the frequency of media reporting on urban conflicts greater, but each urban conflict is also covered much more extensively than those in rural areas; this is despite the fact that a much larger number of people are potentially impacted in the latter.Why Most Indians Don’t Trust News? A Study of Land Conflicts Answers
A study of 714 land conflicts in India find that beyond being ‘influenced’ or ‘sensationalised’, there are objective reasons that decide media coverage.What Drives Media Reporting?
Is media reporting linked to readers' interest? We revisit a paper by Shishir Gupta, Nandini Agnihotri and Sikim Chakraborty on what drives media reporting in India.