Real estate mania; Court vacations; episodes

Resist real estate mania

My column in the Business Standard, of 30 September, was Beware real estate mania.

On this, also see Land without acquisition: A new regime for city expansion by Anirudh Burman (12 September) and Why land is expensive in India and what can be done about it by Gurbachan Singh (25 September).

How do court vacations impact upon the output of the legal system?

Offices normally work all the time. But the courts in India are unusual in that they have well defined vacations where the working of the court drops to some minimal levels. A bunch of questions come to mind. Do case filings and disposals drop during vacation periods?Do cases filed during court vacations take longer to get their first hearing? Do cases filed during court vacations take longer to get disposed of?

These are answered in Do court vacations matter: evidence from the Bombay High Court by Tushar Anand, Pavithra Manivannan and Bhargavi Zaveri-Shah, which was published on The Leap Blog on 23 September.

Episodes

20 September: Episode 65 of Everything is Everything with Amit Varma, Understanding India’s pensions disaster.

29 September: Episode 66 of Everything is Everything with Amit Varma, Don’t mess with the price system.

30 September: in the FED Dialogues with Rahul Ahluwalia, Four pillars of industrial policy.

4 October: Episode 67 of Everything is Everything with Amit Varma, Don’t mess with the exchange rate.

11 October: Episode 68 of Everything is Everything with Amit Varma, Inflation targeting rocks.