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“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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
The formation of partnerships in social networks
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2017-08-17)
This paper analyzes the formation of partnerships in social networks. Agents randomly request favors and turn to their neighbours to form a partnership. If favors are costly, agents have an incentive to delay the formation ...
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 ...
Intellectual Property Regimes, Technology Adoption and Organization of Firms
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2017-07-26)
Recent debates have emerged in understanding the role of globalization on the demand for more skilled workers or executives and organization of firms, even in developing countries. However, there remains little or no ...