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Mutual Fund Flows and Fund's Strategic Behavior When Investors Are Inattentive
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2017-09-04)
The paper builds on a simple yet novel idea that the way investors react to the recent mutual fund performance depends largely upon the long-term historical performance of that fund. In particular, I find that investors ...
Building a Compassionate Organization
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2017-12-14)
The CMHS seminar held at Wing - 11 Committee Room, IIMA on December 14, 2017 by Dr. Aravind Srinivasan, CMO, Aravind Eye Hospital, Chennai on Building a Compassionate Organization
Online Infomediary for One-of-a-Kind Services
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2017-11-27)
We analyze a monopolistic online infomediary that connects the consumer and providers of one-of-a-kind services (e.g., home improvement). The infomediary selects a “platform” that dictates who pays (the providers or the ...
From Clients to Citizens: Lessons from Brazil's Bolsa Familia for Delhi
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2017-11-17)
This presentation is a comparative reflection on welfare policy implementation in an Indian city--the city state of Delhi, which is also the national capital, in the light of lessons from Brazil's Bolsa Familia social ...
Multiscaling in Finance
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2017-11-10)
The multiscaling behaviour of financial time-series is one of the acknowledged stylized facts in the literature [1]. The source of the measured multifractality in financial markets has been long debated and it has been ...
Constructing race and ethnicity: Category-making in public policy and administration – the cases of the US and Netherlands
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2017-11-16)
The US federal government named and defined its demographic categories for the first time in 1977, in the Office of Management and Budget Directive No. 15. The Netherlands also defines and uses “identity” categories in ...
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 ...