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Does Learning from Inspections Affect Environmental Performance? - Evidence from Unconventional Well Development in Pennsylvania
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2017-12-22)
With the growing awareness that operations can affect the environment, regulators increasingly use facility inspections to assess a firm’s environmental performance: whether its operations comply with or violate environmental ...
The formation of partnerships in social networks
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2017-08-17)
This paper analyzes the formation of partnerships in social networks. Agents randomly request favors and turn to their neighbours to form a partnership. If favors are costly, agents have an incentive to delay the formation ...
Intellectual Property Regimes, Technology Adoption and Organization of Firms
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2017-07-26)
Recent debates have emerged in understanding the role of globalization on the demand for more skilled workers or executives and organization of firms, even in developing countries. However, there remains little or no ...
Selection of Inputs and Outputs in Data Envelopment Analysis
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2017-01-09)
Productive efficiency lies in producing the maximum output from a given bundle of inputs or using the minimal input for a target bundle of outputs. The method of Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) introduced in the OR/MS ...
Art and science of financial analysis using simple cases
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2017-01-04)
In my own teaching experience at top business schools, I have found that the MBA curriculum often lacked the one class that brings together knowledge from diverse areas such as accounting, economics, finance, production ...
The US-China Business Relationship - Bi-Polar or the Two Pillars of a Stable World Economy – With Implications for India?
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2017-03-06)
This is more of a policy-oriented presentation discussing the extent of trade and FDI involvement between the US and China and what is at stake in the relationship in terms of money, jobs, manufacturing competitiveness, ...
Are Subsidies on Drip Irrigation Working? Evidence from Gujarat?
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2017-02-21)
Subsidies on technologies that reduce environmental externalities are popular with policy makers in developing countries. However, given “investment inefficiencies” and the multiple other factors potentially inhibiting ...
Development Conflicts We Know Nothing Of
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2017-02-08)
The typical narrative of development conflict is of a rapacious industry that is unwilling to share the gains of development with people affected by projects and, instead, prone to paying off politicians, bureaucrats and ...
An enhanced memetic algorithm for Single-Objective bilevel optimization problems
(MIT Press Journals, 2017)
Bilevel optimization, as the name reflects, deals with optimization at two interconnected hierarchical levels. The aim is to identify the optimum of an upper-level leader problem, subject to the optimality of a lower-level ...