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    • Essays on managerial discretion 

      Sharma, Abhinav (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2023)
      "This thesis examines discretionary managerial decisions and investigates their association with the behavioral biases of market participants. We study managerial discretion in the context of repricing employee stock ...
    • Essays on share repurchases 

      Saurabh, Suman (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2018)
      This dissertation comprises three essays, which empirically examine the influence of investor and managerial irrationality on open market repurchases (OMRs) in the US market. In the first essay, we examine the systematic ...
    • Essays on shareholder voting 

      Purohit, Siddharth Mahendra (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2023)
      "Shareholder ratification of corporate actions is an important part of the corporate governance process. In this thesis, I examine the determinants of shareholder dissent in the context of three actions proposed for ...
    • Essays on the role of information in financial markets 

      Srivastava, Pranjal (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2023)
      "This Ph.D. dissertation comprises three essays on the role of information in financial markets. The first essay examines the impact of the introduction of a minimum buyback mandate in open market repurchases. In line with ...
    • Estimation and forecasting of stock volatility with range based estimators 

      Jacob, Joshy; Vipul (Journal of Futures Markets, 2008-11-10)
      This paper examines the estimation and forecasting performance of range-based volatility estimators for stocks, with two-scales realized volatility as the benchmark. There is evidence that the daily range-based estimators ...
    • Evaluating the efficacy of platform acquisitions by PE firms in India 

      Menon, Amritha; Sharma, Shubhankar (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2020)
      The Indian PE/ VC industry accounts for 1.7% of the country’s GDP and is growing at a CAGR of 44% over the past 3 years. India has received PE/VC investments worth USD 198 billion since 2009, of which 56% has been received ...
    • An examination of factors driving big 4 audit fee premiums: evidence from India's audit market 

      Jacob, Joshy; Desai, Naman; Agarwalla, Sobhesh Kumar (American Accounting Association (AAA), 2018-10)
      This study examines fee premiums earned by Big 4 auditors in India and identifies the primary reason for such fee premiums. There are three primary drivers of Big 4 fee premiums. First, Big 4 auditors charge a fee premium ...
    • An examination of factors driving big 4 audit fee premiums: Evidence from India’s audit market 

      Jacob, Joshy; Desai, Naman; Agarwalla, Sobhesh Kumar (American Accounting Association, 2019)
      This study examines fee premiums earned by Big 4 auditors in India and identifies the primary reason for such fee premiums. There are three primary drivers of Big 4 fee premiums. Big 4 auditors charge a fee premium for ...
    • Experimental Research Programme to Design Effective Financial Education 

      Agarwalla, Sobhesh Kumar; Barua, Samir K.; Jacob, Joshy; Varma, Jayanth R. (Citi Foundation, 2013)
      The program aims to conduct research to understand the manner in which financial education, attitudes, behavioral biases, design and communication of financial products and services and financial advice influence the ...
    • Final report on crowdfunding: attributes and drivers 

      Madireddy, Anusha; Gupta, Rakshit (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2016)
    • Financial Inclusion Research and Convening Programme 

      Agarwalla, Sobhesh Kumar; Barua, Samir K.; Jacob, Joshy; Varma, Jayanth R. (Citi Foundation, 2013)
      The objective of the study is to examine access to finance in the largely informal financial services sector, including the non-banking organizations, such as Chit funds (ROSCAs), microfinance institutions, and self-help ...
    • Financial literacy among working young in urban India 

      Agarwalla, Sobhesh Kumar; Barua, Samir K.; Jacob, Joshy; Varma, Jayanth R. (2013-11-26)
      The paper reports investigation of a study on the influence of various socio-demographic factors on different dimensions of financial literacy among the working young in urban India. While the influence of several factors ...
    • Financial literacy among working young in urban India 

      Agarwalla, Sobhesh Kumar; Barua, Samir K.; Jacob, Joshy; Varma, Jayanth R. (Elsevier, 2015)
      The working young in urban India exhibit inferior financial knowledge, inferior financial attitude, and superior financial behavior compared to their counterparts elsewhere. While both men and women require intervention ...
    • Fishing in muddy waters: mergers and acquisitions during uncertainty 

      Gopalakrishnan, Balagopal; Jacob, Joshy; Srivastava, Jagriti (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2022-10-26)
      Using the COVID-19 pandemic as an exogenous shock, we examine whether firms engage in opportunistic mergers and acquisitions during uncertainty. Par- ticularly, we analyze the inorganic growth strategies of acquiring ...
    • Four factor model in Indian equities market 

      Agarwalla, Sobhesh Kumar; Jacob, Joshy; Varma, Jayanth R. (2013-11-26)
      We compute the Fama-French and momentum factor returns for the Indian equity market or the 1993-2012 period using data from CMIE Prowess. We di er from the previous studies n several signi cant ways. First, we cover a ...
    • GE and GE Capital 

      Varma, Jayanth R.; Jacob, Joshy (2011-05-09)
    • "GE and GE Capital." 

      Varma, Jayanth R.; Jacob, Joshy (2012-09-13)
    • "GE and GE Capital."(Teaching Note) 

      Varma, Jayanth R.; Jacob, Joshy (2012-09-13)
    • High frequency manipulation at futures Expiry: the case of cash settled Indian single stock futures 

      Agarwalla, Sobhesh Kumar; Jacob, Joshy; Varma, Jayanth R. (Indian Institute of Management , Ahmedabad, 2014)
      Futures markets are known to be vulnerable to manipulation, and despite the presence of a variety of mechanisms to prevent such manipulation, instances of market manipulation have been found in some of the largest and most ...
    • ICICI 2007 Public Issue 

      Agarwalla, Sobhesh Kumar; Jacob, Joshy; Varma, Jayanth R. (2011-05-06)