Browsing R & P Seminar by Title
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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 ... -
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 ... -
Only Mine or All Ours: Do Stronger Entitlements affect Altruistic Choices in the Household
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2015-07-09)The R & P seminar held at Wing 11 Committee Room, IIM Ahmedabad on July 9, 2015 by Prof. Utteeyo Dasgupta Wagner College and a Senior Research Associate at the Center for International Studies and Policy, Fordham University ... -
Optimal response to a next generation technology introduction and a some other interesting results
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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 ... -
Optimizing the R & D and marketing interface
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Partisan Politics and the Tragedy of the Commons: Groundwater Depletion in India’s Breadbasket
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2016-01-08)India's agriculture depends on groundwater irrigation, but this critical resource is depleting. Abundant supply of heavily subsidized electricity plays a key role in this depletion by allowing farmers to operate powerful ... -
The policy implications on net neutrality: an economic perspective
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2014-06-12)Whether to legislate to maintain “net neutrality”, the current status quo of prohibiting broadband service providers from charging online websites for preferential access to their residential and commercial customers, has ... -
Policy Innovations, Political Preferences, and Cartel Prosecutions
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2015-08-10)The R & P seminar held at Wing 11 Committee Room, IIM Ahmedabad on August 10, 2015 by Prof. D. Daniel Sokol, Professor of Law, University of Florida Levin College of Law on Policy Innovations, Political Preferences, and ... -
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 ... -
Prior Startup Experience, Social Networks, and Transnational Entrepreneurship in Silicon Valley
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2018-01-04)This paper contributes to our understanding of the role played by startup experience and social networks in two countries – India and the US – in influencing and enabling immigrant diaspora entrepreneurs to found cross-border ... -
The Promise & Pitfalls of ICT for Agriculture
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2017-07-14)In this talk, he will be talking of the research based on two experiments. The first one is about 'the effectiveness of "information only" interventions'. The authors examine the role of a very low-cost, "light-touch" ...