Student Projects: Recent submissions

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    • Business plans and strategy for GenBios 

      Agarwal, Vipin (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2005)

    • Business strategy for NDTV 

      Jha, Abhimanyu; Kadian, Ashwani; Meshram, Vidya (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2005)

    • Carbon trading: will it promote the switch from coal to gas for power generation in India (Analysis of CDM, carbon trading and its implication on gas-based power plants in India 

      Mittal, Bishnu; Mahapatra, Diptiranjan (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2005)

    • Co-branding as a marketing strategy 

      B. C., Kavita; Vaid, Shradha (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2005)

    • Collateralized debt obligations: pricing and analytics 

      Khare, Kanpuriya; Shenoy, Vinay N. (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2006)
      ABSTRACT This project is a study on CDOs and CDOA2s. It starts with an in depth study of the literature on the various types of credit derivative instruments available. We then introduce a method to price a CDO or a CD0^2 ...

    • Volatility - comparision of predictive models in Indian market 

      Jha, Amitesh Kumar; Kumar, Suresh (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2005)
      Abstract: 1) Introduction and context description: Studies have been done which capture the volatility and the behaviors of the predictive models in the Indian Equity market. But these studies use data from the time when ...

    • Developing an alternative and cost-effective model for measuring price sensitivity 

      Chaudhuri, Avishek; Gangulee, Debaditya; Tripathy, Saugat (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2006)
      Pricing a product correctly requires knowledge of the underlying price sensitivity of the target customer base in addition to the value perceived by the customers. The most popular ways of measuring price sensitivity of ...

    • Dual drug pricing in India 

      Gupta, Priyanka; Kant, Ranjan (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2006)
      Abstract The Indian constitution makers had visualized Health as a State List subject best left for the states to deliberate and formulate laws and policies upon to deal with the regional peculiarities in the most optimal ...

    • Effect of changes in taxation laws on corporate dividend policy 

      T. N., Devarajan; H. S., Narahari (Indian Institute of Management Ahhmedabad, 2006)
      Abstract: )) Introduction and context description Measuring the effect of changes in taxation laws on corporate dividend policy. 2) Research Questions Whether the applicability of the Dividend Distribution Tax (DDT) ...

    • Effectiveness of commodity exchanges in India 

      Bajpai, Amardeep; Pawar, Arun; Chadha, Prashant (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2006)
      Abstract Commodity trading in India is very old and dates back to 1875, just about a decade after the birth of the world's first commodity trading exchange at Chicago, the first futures exchange was set up in India. In ...

    • Entropy as a measure of delayed differentiation 

      Srivastava, Siddhartha (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2006)
      Abstract In the new market conditions, the importance of handling variety is ever increasing. The challenge lies in managing this variety with minimum cost and in shortest time. This paper studies the various strategies ...

    • Future of inventory management in retail chains 

      V., Kanchana; Nair, Tushara (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2006)
      The retail industry in India is growing rapidly and with the customer demands and competition increasing, retailers will have to differentiate themselves to succeed. Inventory Management then becomes a crucial factor in ...

    • Human resources development initiatives in Gujarat Government 

      Krishnan, Devadas (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2006)
      Abstract: 1) Introduction and context description: Usually people tend to think about the government machinery as a slow, inefficient behemoth guzzling the tax payers' hard earned money. The government servants are often ...

    • Impact of macroeconomy on the capital markets 

      Chadha, Prashant (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2006)
      Abstract It is believed that the state of the macroeconomy has an impact on the stock market returns, as is evident from the statements of academicians and politicians from time to time. This study is based on a paper by ...

    • Impact of mergers and acquisition announcements on share price 

      Shrivastava, Siddhartha (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2006)
      Abstract 1) Introduction and context description: Corporate announcements regarding company's future strategy are an integral feature of today's capital markets. Of all these announcements we have seen that market's ...

    • Construction of volatility index for NSE 

      Goyal, Piyush (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2005)
      Abstract: 1) Introduction and context description: This IP seeks to construct Volatility Index (VIX) for Indian Stock markets which will help investors in taking bearish/ bullish position, enable traders to take positions ...

    • Investigation into optimal portfolio allocation of stocks having non - normal returns 

      Subramaniam, Bharathy; Bhowmick, Divyajyoti (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2005)
      Abstract: 1) Introduction and context description: According to the traditional asset pricing methods, the returns of stocks are assumed to be normally distributed with mean jx and standard deviation o. In these cases, ...

    • Mergers and acquisitions in India: economic rationale and market performance 

      Gupta, Saurabh; Kumar, Amit (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2005)
      During the last five years, Indian economy has seen a slew of mergers and acquisitions. These M&As have been spread across a wide range of industries. However, some of the industries saw larger consolidation through M&A ...

    • Model for for asset liability management of an insurance company 

      Tiwari, Apoorva; Garg, Ankur (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2005)
      Abstrac One of the most challenging task for an insurance company is its asset liability management. The problem of asset liability management for an insurance company entails matching the cash inflows due to premiums and ...

    • National systems of innovation: a study of the Indian systems 

      Sarda, Gaurav; Tiwari, Apoorva (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2005)
      Abstract A National System of Innovation (NSI) is a combination of factors that decide the level and the kind of innovative activities in the country. The innovative activities are directed towards new development or ...