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The potential of mobile coupons: current status and future promises
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2014)
Coupons continue to be one of the most favourite promotional tools for the marketers to influence, incentivize, and encourages customers towards trying the product. Mobile-coupon (m-coupon), an extension of the traditional ...
Measurement issues in state income from registered manufacturing sector – case of Gujarat
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2014)
The present paper discusses some important issues involved in estimation of state income originating in the registered manufacturing sector with illustrations drawn from Gujarat. It highlights the present practices in ...
A tale of five cities: heat waves, cold spells and mortality risk in urban India
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2014)
Background: Temperature extremes as a consequence of changing climate are known to have large morbidity and mortality impacts. Studies assessing mortality risk due to heat waves and cold spells are largely absent in urban ...
Forecast accuracy along booking profile in the national railways of an emerging Asian economy: comparison of different techniques
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2014)
The National Railways of an Emerging Asian Economy (NREAE), the second largest railway network in the world, is facing growing challenges from low fare airlines. To combat these challenges, NREAE has to adopt revenue ...
A multi-period two stage stochastic programming based decision support system for strategic planning in process industries: a case of an integrated iron and steel company
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2014)
The paper introduces the application of a generic, multiple period, two stage stochastic programming based Decision Support System (DSS) in an integrated steel company. We demonstrate that a generic, user friendly stochastic ...
Endowment effects in bundles
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2014)
Behavioral experiments conducted so far to establish existence of endowment effect as propounded by prospect theorists typically endow subjects with a single good. In this paper we depart from this setting by giving subjects ...
What employers value in the MBAs they recruit: rebalancing the management education curriculum
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2014)
This paper seeks to answer the question, “In the Indian context, what insights can employers offer on the knowing, doing and being dimensions of the formation of an MBA graduate, that management education institutes can ...
Database structure for a multi stage stochastic optimization based decision support system for asset – liability management of a life insurance company
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2014)
We introduce a stochastic optimization based decision support system (DSS) for asset-liability management of a life insurance firm using a multi-stage, stochastic optimization model. The DSS is based on a multi-stage ...
Location identification for rapid evacuation from a disaster site: a case study from KAPS
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2014)
Robust plans need to be developed for rapidly evacuating victims from a nuclear disaster site. Although nuclear plants are constructed with multiple redundant safety features, the chances of a leak can never be zero. In ...
Implications of risk perceptions for long term future of nuclear energy in India: a sensitivity analysis around nuclear energy cost within an integrated assessment modeling framework
(IIM Ahmedabad, 2014-04)
Nuclear energy for power generation is expected to be a vital pillar of India's energy policy
as well as emission mitigation strategy. However, there are divergent views from various
quarters about the risk and liability ...