Browsing R & P Seminar by Title
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Is financial inclusion good for bank stability? International evidence
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2017-07-24)Financial inclusion has become an important public policy priority following the recent global financial crisis. Yet, we know very little of how it impacts soundness of the providers of financial services. Using an ... -
Issues in Water Rights, Institutional Design and Pricing that Need Resolution
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2014-12-03)The R & P seminar held at Wing 11 IIM Ahmedabad on Dec 3, 2014 by Prof. Sebastian Morris, Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad -
“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 ... -
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 ... -
Lack-of-fit testing of the conditional mean function in a class of Markov multiplicative error models
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2013-12-10)The family of multiplicative error models, introduced by Engle (2002, Journal of Applied Econometrics 17, 425–446), has attracted considerable attention in recent literature for modeling positive random variables, such as ... -
Large Population Aggregative Potential Games
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2016-12-08)We consider population games in which payoff depends upon the aggregate strategy level and which admit a potential function. Examples of such aggregative potential games include the tragedy of the commons and the Cournot ... -
Licensing Intellectual Property and the Dissemination of Technology
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2016-08-05)While the exclusive rights provided by intellectual property law are touted as promoting the creation and spread of new technologies, equally important is the role of contract law in supporting the dissemination of technology. ... -
Linking literacy and mobile phone usage among women: Evidence from a women's adult literacy programme in India
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2018-02-16)In this paper we evaluate the impact of a female adult literacy programme (FALP henceforth) on the ownership, access and use of mobile phones among its participants. Using a mixed methods research design, we present both ... -
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 ... -
Major Determinants of World Agricultural Trade
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2018-12-27)Agricultural world trade is heavily impacted by comparative advantage, trade policies, domestic farm policies, gravity factors, and transport costs. Comparative advantage is determined by Ricardian productivity differences ... -
Management Science & Practice, deployed in providing Technology Enabled Remote Healthcare
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2019-02-04)The only way to bridge the ever-increasing urban rural health divide is to use Information & Communication Technology and integrate Telehealth into the healthcare delivery system. This profusely illustrated presentation ... -
Minimum distance model checking in Berkson measurement error models with validation data
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2019-02-12)This talk will present a class of tests for fitting a parametric model to the regression function in the presence of Berkson measurement error in the covariates without specifying the measurement error density but when ... -
Missing Men, Migration and Labour Markets:Evidence from India
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2015-12-02)How do labor markets function when a large part of the able-bodied male workforce is absent due to out-migration? This question holds great significance as it affects regions covering over 200 million people in India and ... -
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 ... -
Mixed methods research
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MNCs and Global Foreign Policy: A trend we may have missed in the last 5 Years
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2016-01-05)On the international stage, the multinational corporation has been sneaking up on traditional prerogatives of the state, with surprisingly little mainstream commentary on the trend. The talk singles out news stories from ... -
Mobile targeting using customer trajectory patterns
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A Model for Enhancing Productivity via Employee Well Being
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2018-12-28)The future of a country is dependent on the well-being of the society, in particular, its workforce. A healthy workforce can participate in a globally-competent development of a country. Unfortunately, a growing number of ... -
Modeling leptokurtic return distributions in commodity markets
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Money and Meaning in the Modern Law Firm
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2017-04-28)After the 2008 economic crisis, the legal profession in the US (and indeed in many Western economies) has found itself at an inflection point. Whereas prior to 2008, revenue and clients were fairly plentiful, the economic ...