Browsing by Author "Laha, Arnab K."
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Air pollution modelling for Indian cities: change point analysis of air pollution in Delhi
Swaroop, Gaurav; Barola, Pradeep; Ranjan, Rajesh (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2018)There has been considerable concern with respect to the increasing pollution levels in Delhi. The pollution levels and the resulting fog and effects on health has been alarming and has worried different stakeholders. ... -
All for a good cause: a study of placement of cause marketing advertisements in consumer online decision journey
Pandey, Arpita (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2021)This study examines the impacts of placing cause advertisements at different stages of a consumer’s online decision journey. Cause related marketing (CRM) is defined as a commercial activity in which a brand is advertised ... -
Challenges of saving water: the adoption and impact of micro-irrigation technology in agriculture
Singh, Gurpreet (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2022-04-06)The large-scale use of traditional irrigation methods has pushed agriculture towards extensive and unsustainable water use. The thesis focuses on the adoption and impact of Micro-Irrigation (MI) technology, considered an ... -
Data-driven dimension reduction in functional principal component analysis identifying the change-point in functional data
Banerjee, Buddhananda; Laha, Arnab K.; Lakra, Arjun (Statistical Analysis and Data Mining, 2020-07-06)Functional principal component analysis (FPCA) is the most commonly used technique to analyze infinite-dimensional functional data in finite lower-dimensional space for the ease of computational intensity. However, the ... -
Deriving value out of customer interaction through analysis of complaints registered with the company
Verma, Abhijit; Jharwal, Harsh (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2016) -
Determining effects of a web-based teachers’ professional development programme on teaching self-efficacy beliefs and classroom practice
Deshmukh, Ketan Satish (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2021)The design of large-scale professional development (PD) programmes for teachers in the public schooling system faces two challenges. The first is identifying a suitable malleable construct which influences student performance, ... -
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 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 ... -
Evaluation of household spending pattern pre and post lockdown across different baskets of goods
Jain, Vishesh; Koli, Sanjana (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2021-12-14)COVID-19 resulted in a disruption in the lifestyle and buying patterns of people. The direct and indirect effects of the pandemic are mediated mainly through the economics of the household. Drastic changes were noticed due ... -
Everyone has a risk profile: A new approach to calculating an individual’s overall risk characteristic
Yadav, Saumya; Ashish, Anuma (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2021-09-07)A significant amount of human life is spent making decisions, and the risk involved in the decisions or outcomes is the primary determinant in going ahead with them. Academically, the discussion of risk involved in ... -
Explorations in modeling and forecast assessment of energy derivatives
Bisht, Deepak (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2018)Amid economic and geopolitical uncertainty, energy commodities have gone through abrupt shifts in supply and demand dynamics during the last decade. This has caused unprecedented price volatility. To manage excessive price ... -
Global versus local brand preference formation in food products
Rupali (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2023)"Brands have come to play a major role in consumer decision-making, and in this, the brand identity, which includes its perceived global and local nature, can play a very significant role. But there is inconsistent evidence ... -
Long memory behavior of financial indices
Reddy, Veda Samhith (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2019)The aim of the project was to reproduce the long memory behaviour of the financial indices data, the S&P 500 historical daily returns data, and also check for the long memory behaviour in the financial indices data of India. -
Non-euclidean analytics: inference, learning and applications
Majumdar, Sourav (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2023)"Several classical statistical approaches assume that the data lives in a Euclidean space. However, such methods do not apply to non-Euclidean data. In this dissertation, we develop methods and theory to analyse certain ... -
Smallholder output market participation, channel choice and its impacts: empirical evidence from paddy markets in Uttar Pradesh, India
Chauhan, Sonalee (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2023)Market access for smallholders is a key policy issue in developing economies. Smallholders face considerable challenges in accessing farm and allied output markets due to poor access to credit and output markets, high ... -
Three essays on interest rate modeling
Kumar, Sudarshan (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2020)This dissertation presents three essays that explore and propose methodological modifications to adapt yield curve modeling to the context of emerging markets using data from Indian bond markets. While no arbitrage affine ...