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Economic measures of capacity utilization: A nonparametric cost function analysis
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2018-01-05)
Cost based measures of capacity utilization and capacity output are important metrics for evaluating firm performance. Understanding where firms are producing on their average cost curve provides information about whether ...
Different Worlds Together: How Researchers and Practitioners Co-create Knowledge
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2018-01-05)
The communities of research and practice are embedded in epistemic cultures that favor specific strategies, practices, and apparatus – in other words, ways of knowing. Scholars have investigated the differences between ...
How long the shadow of the city? The impact of urbanisation on schooling
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2018-02-16)
What is the impact of rapid urbanisation on rural schooling? In this paper we use data from the district of Gautam Buddha Nagar, lying in Uttar Pradesh and bordering Delhi, to answer this question. This district has seen ...
Poverty Index with Time-Varying Consumption and Income Distributions
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2018-11-01)
Poverty is defined as degree of deprivation in consumption of an essential commodity. Employing Ernst Engel’s approach we derive a hierarchy of needs and identify the basic needs. We then use the Engel curve for that ...
A spatial hedonic analysis of the value of groundwater to agriculture
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2018-03-08)
Groundwater provides many valuable services to society, especially as a source of irrigation water. However, over-extraction and degradation threaten the ability of many groundwater systems to continue to provide such ...
Weather, Affect, and Consumption Preference for Hedonic and Utilitarian Products: The Moderating Role of Gender
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2018-01-22)
How and why does the association between weather and hedonic consumption differ between males and females? This paper theorizes that females have a stronger affective response to weather conditions, which subsequently ...
Promise and politicians in an uncertain world: Evidence from a lab-in-the-field experiment in India
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2018-01-09)
In parliamentary democracies, politicians play an obvious and critical role in choosing and implementing policies. A key question in implementation failures, especially due to the uncertainty about the true state of nature, ...
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, ...
Does Learning from Inspections Affect Environmental Performance? - Evidence from Unconventional Well Development in Pennsylvania
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2017-12-22)
With the growing awareness that operations can affect the environment, regulators increasingly use facility inspections to assess a firm’s environmental performance: whether its operations comply with or violate environmental ...