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Do Expectations Reflect Information Reliability? Evidence From Odds on Tennis Matches
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2019-01-22)
We examine whether people form expectations by placing a larger weight on more reliable signals. To test this notion, we analyze subjective probabilities inferred from odds offered on the outcomes of men's tennis matches, ...
Minimum distance model checking in Berkson measurement error models with validation data
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2019-02-12)
This talk will present a class of tests for fitting a parametric model to the regression function in the presence of Berkson measurement error in the covariates without specifying the measurement error density but when ...
Inclusive education in Delhi: Understating teachers' perspectives and beliefs
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2018-12-21)
This study examines the perceptions and beliefs of general education teachers about the inclusion of students with disabilities (SWDs) in regular education classrooms. Using hermeneutic phenomenology as a methodological ...
Cross-market integration and sabotage
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2018-03-14)
"Sabotage" includes a set of firm-specific, non-price related actions negatively influencing competitor's outcomes. There are a large number of potential sabotage options available to integrated firms in direct competition ...
Big Data, Big Promise, Big Challenge: Can Small Area Estimation Play a Role in the Big Data Centric World?
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2018-02-09)
The demand for various socio-economic, transportation, and health statistics for small geographical areas is steadily increasing at a time when survey agencies are desperately looking for ways to reduce costs to meet fixed ...
Search: then and now with particular reference to the web
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2018-12-10)
Nowadays, we take web search engines for granted. For many people, their favourite search engine (Google or some other) is their primary or even sole entry-point to the web. Not only that -- it also, in some sense, _is_ ...
Major Determinants of World Agricultural Trade
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2018-12-27)
Agricultural world trade is heavily impacted by comparative advantage, trade policies, domestic farm policies, gravity factors, and transport costs. Comparative advantage is determined by Ricardian productivity differences ...
Rational Choices: An Ecological Foundation
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2018-11-16)
We address the oft-repeated criticism that the demands which the rational choice approach makes on the knowledge and cognition of a decision maker (DM) are way beyond the capabilities of typical human intelligence. Our key ...
Health communications: Going from aversion to persuasion
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2018-02-13)
In this talk, I will present a sampling of studies that investigate factors and processes that shape health persuasion. We will examine whether and why people are averse to health persuasion and how these barriers can be ...
Diffusing Coordination Risk
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2018-11-02)
Agents face strategic uncertainty in a regime change game that is akin to debt rollover. A mass of agents sequentially decide whether to attack a regime or not, but they do not observe the past actions of other agents. A ...