Browsing R & P Seminar by Title
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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 ... -
Morality and humanoid robots: revisiting different ethical theories
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2019-11-26)Uniformity in human actions and attitudes incumbent with the ceteris paribus clause of folk psychology lucidly transits moral thoughts into the domain of subject-centric exploration. Morality could be identified in terms ... -
More power to India: The challenge of electricity distribution
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2014-08-21)The R & P seminar held at Wing 11 IIM Ahmedabad on August 21, 2014 by Mr. Ashish Khanna, Lead Energy Specialist-South Asia, World Bank -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Mutual information an a two sample test
(2014-02-14)For two independently drawn samples from continuous distributions, a statistical test based on the mutual information statistic is proposed for the null hypothesis that both the samples originate from the same population. ... -
Neuroeconomics of Prospect Theory
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2015-02-12)The R & P seminar held at CR-03 IIM Ahmedabad on February 12, 2015 by Prof. V.S. Chandrasekhar Pammi, Centre of Behavioural and Congnitive Sciences, University of Allahabad, Allahabad, India -
Neuroscience in marketing: empirical evidence of social and emotional meanings conveyed by brands
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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, ... -
Nominee representatives of financing institutions in the board of directors: Implications on firm internationalization strategy
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2018-11-13)Extant literature on Corporate Governance predominantly examines the characteristics of Anglo-Saxon system of corporate governance. Characteristics of board of directors, such as board independence are the outcomes of ... -
Old and out? Age, learning and employability
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2016-10-06)Workforces across the world are aging, and governments are taking more and more policy actions to encourage aging workers to extend their working lives beyond the usual retirement age. In addition, employers are stimulated ... -
On fractile regression
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2011-11-17)The need for comparing two or more regression functions arises frequently in statistical applications. Comparison of the usual regression functions is not very meaningful in situations where the distribution and the range ... -
On Path Decompositions of Graphs and Multigraphs
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2015-08-28)For graphs G and H, graph G is said to admit an H-decomposition if the edges of G can be partitioned into isomorphic copies of H. Let P4 denote the path on 4 vertices. We survey results that assert that certain graphs and ... -
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 ...