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Explorations in modeling and forecast assessment of energy derivatives
(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 ...
Essays on online hyperlocal food service marketplaces
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2018)
Owing to the e-commerce revolution, food service business is shifting from being the traditional brick-and-mortar dine-in restaurant to being an online food ordering business. Although the online food service delivery ...
An experimental investigation of advertising effectiveness in roadblock advertising
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2018)
Recent years have seen growing use of ‗Roadblock Advertising‘ by media planners to enhance advertising effectiveness. Many companies (Hutch, Aircel, ITC, Viacom 18, Nestle, Nokia, Volkswagon, Real fire extinguisher, Vodafone, ...
IIM-A's PGPX programme has mere17% female candidates
(DNA, 2018-04-13)
PGPX begins with 138 students at IIMA
(Ahmedabad Mirror, 2018-04-13)
IIM- A welcomes 13th PGPX batch
(Times of India, 2018-04-13)
Essays on Frontline workers’ motivation and performance under public programs: A multi-method study
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2018)
Frontline workers constitute a critical part of the implementation cadre within public policies, serving a significant role in the delivery of public goods and services. This dissertation examines frontline workers’ work ...
An empirical exploration of education and inequality – Three essays
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2018)
Education has been reckoned as means through which life chances of the poor and the disadvantaged improve. However, prior research has also attributed education as being one of the key channels by which economic inequality ...
Change point, prediction and classification with functional data
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2018)
Functional data consists of a collection of curves (or functions) defined on a finite subset of some interval. In this dissertation, we discuss change point, prediction and classification problems with functional data. ...
Essays on share repurchases
(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 ...