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Who are the Goldsmiths? Migrant Artisans' Guilds and the Changing Contours of Goldsmithing in India
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2017-09-13)
In India, while gold is a highly regulated and monitored commodity, goldsmithing has been primarily an unregulated economic activity. The paper describes how goldsmithing, which was once a caste-based occupation, gradually ...
International Yoga Day (2017)
(2017-06-21)
Optimization Software and Systems for Operations Research: Best Practices and Current Trends
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2017-12-18)
For a great variety of large-scale optimization problems arising in Operations Research applications, it has become practical to rely on "off-the-shelf" software, without any special programming of algorithms. As a result ...
Can we infer the "laws" of finance from big data?
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2017-08-24)
A distinction often made between the physical sciences and social sciences is that the latter are not as amenable as the former to controlled experiments for rigorously verifying predictions made from theory. However, ...
Inequality and Economic Growth: The Role of Initial Income
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2017-12-15)
We estimate a panel model where the relationship between inequality and GDP per capita growth depends on countries' initial incomes. Estimates of the model show that the relationship between inequality and GDP per capita ...
The Growing Importance of Financial Spillovers from Emerging Markets
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2017-03-22)
Has growing trade and financial integration resulted in an increase in outward shock spillover from emerging economies to global financial markets? Over the last two decades, transmission of emerging market shocks to equity ...
Global sourcing of Services: Strategies, Issues and Challenges
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2017-04-11)
The world has gone through three waves of sourcing and we are on the cusp of fourth wave. These waves appear to parallel agricultural, industrial, information/Internet, and now the cloud age. It is crucial to pay attention ...
The cradle and grave of the welfare state
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2017-03-21)
The social struggle which came about in industrializing and urbanizing Europe had as a prime objective, fought for by the up-and-coming trade union movement, better employment conditions culminating in a standard contract ...
Designing retail stores to maximize visual experience
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2017-03-07)
The physical layout of a retail store is known to influence the stimuli and behavior of shoppers, eventually affecting their personal experience and store performance. This talk will focus on the visual stimuli of a shopper ...
Wheels of power: Long-term effects of a one time targeted program
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2017-04-10)
Expansion of opportunities for the female child may impact her aspirations given the prevailing social norms. Furthermore, the new social equilibrium arising from this expansion feeds back into the social norms. We develop ...