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E-GOVERNMENT TO COMBAT CORRUPTION IN INDIA & JOURNAL OF IT CASE AND APPLICATION RESEARCH (JITCAR)
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2016-01-18)
Corruption in varying degrees exists in almost all countries. But its alarmingly high levels and persistence in developing countries such as India is a cause for deep concern. Indeed, international agencies and governments ...
Does Health Influence Risk Preference?
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2016-12-16)
This paper investigates whether self-assessed health (SAH) status—a measure of health stock—influences the risk preference of an individual. Using the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add Health), we ...
Stock Picking - Insights from academic research
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2016-12-22)
Despite the importance of the banking sector to the economy, prior valuation studies in accountinghave tended to generally discard bank stocks. We examine returns to a fundamental analysis based trading strategy for the ...
Logistics, the human factor
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2016-12-16)
As every manager knows, people are important to achieve operational excellence. The decisions and behavior of leaders impact the behaviors of employees which are instrumental in obtaining high performance. Still, in ...
A mixed integer linear programming model for optimal sovereign debt issuance
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2016-09-02)
Governments borrow funds to finance the excess of cash payments or interest payments over receipts, usually by issuing fixed income debt and index-linked debt. The goal of this work is to propose a stochastic optimization-based ...
A Framework Model on MNE's Impact on Global Development Challenges in Emerging Markets
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2016-12-15)
MNEmerge is a three-year (2014–2016) collaborative research project funded by the EU’s Seventh Framework Programme for research, technological development and demonstration under Grant Agreement No. 612889. The project ...
High-Cost Debt and Borrower Reputation: Evidence from the U.K
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2016-09-14)
When taking up high-cost debt signals poor credit risk to lenders, consumers must trade off alleviating credit constraints today with exacerbating them in the future. We document this trade-off by exploiting the random ...
Achieving social objectives using sponsorship-endorser portfolios
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2016-11-10)
Increasingly, nonprofits are utilizing social partnerships, such as celebrity endorsements or commercial sponsorships, to realize their social objectives and donation goals. The impact of corporate sponsorship on consumer ...
New Technology Innovations, Rise of Start-Ups and Design of Competitive Business Models
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2016-12-09)
Business models are a current hot topic, and their design has become a key to achieving high performance of the companies big or small. New Technologies: Mobile Internet, IOT, Social media, Cloud, Algorithmic Governance, ...
Assessing recent Social Security Programs in India
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2016-12-12)
There has been a major expansion of social security programmes in India during the last fifteen years or so, along with wider recognition of economic and social rights. This paper discusses five programmes of interest: ...