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The Kumbh Mela Experiment (KME): Measuring and understanding the dynamics of mankind's largest crowd - Experiences from Kumbh Mela 2016 in Ujjain
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2017-11-07)
The Kumbh Mela Experiment (KME) is an ongoing Indo-Dutch collaborative research project funded jointly by the Department of Electronics and Information Technology (DeitY), Govt. of India, and Netherlands Organization for ...
Dynamic Tax Competition, Home Bias and the gain from Non-preferential Taxation Regimes: A case for unilateral commitment
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2017-10-27)
In a dynamic two-period model of tax competition between two symmetric countries, where an investor has home bias for the country where he/she invests in the initial period, we show that a country has an incentive to ...
High Non-GAAP Earnings Predict Abnormally High CEO Pay
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2017-11-09)
Using the standard academic model of executive compensation, we document excessive CEO pay for the S&P 500 firms that report non-GAAP earnings that are much higher than their GAAP earnings. We also find that, on average, ...
Demonetization 2016 and Black Economy
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2017-11-07)
On 8 November 2016, India demonetized high denomination currency, wiping out 86 per cent of the currency in circulation. India’s well-functioning economy went into a tailspin.
This move, it was claimed, was made ...
“I” seek uniqueness and “WE” avoid risk: The role of consumer motivation in retail shopping
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2017-11-03)
Retailers frequently use selling cues for effective promotional campaigns. Drawing from consumer regulatory focus motivation and selling cue literature, this research explores the influences of selling cue, consumer ...
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 ...
Modeling leptokurtic return distributions in commodity markets
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2013-08-28)
The touch of Midas or the curse of Bhasmasura? Learning from failures of Indian investments in Finland
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2015-11-23)
This seminar presentation contributes to expanding the conversations around investments of multinational companies from emerging economies (EMNCs) in developed countries. The purpose is to invite attention to management ...
Design of survivable telecommunication network: a polyhedral approach
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2012-09-21)
We consider the problem of designing a survivable telecommunication network using facilities of a fixed capacity. Given a graph G = (V, E), the traffic demand among the nodes, and the cost of installing facilities on the ...
India 2050: A Roadmap to Sustainable Prosperity
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2015-02-26)
The R & P seminar held at Wing 11 IIM Ahmedabad on February 26, 2015 by Dr. Ramgopal Agarwala, Chairman of Pahle India Foundation