Browsing R & P Seminar by Title

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    • Counterfeit avastin in India: punish the criminals, not the patients 

      Narayanan, Raja (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2020-01-10)
      In December, 2015, 15 cases of intraocular inflammation following injections of counterfeit bevacizumab occurred in Gujarat, India. CDSCO reacted by prohibiting the use of intraocular bevacizumab throughout the country. ...

    • The cradle and grave of the welfare state 

      Breman, J. C. (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2017-03-21)
      The social struggle which came about in industrializing and urbanizing Europe had as a prime objective, fought for by the up-and-coming trade union movement, better employment conditions culminating in a standard contract ...

    • Cross-market integration and sabotage 

      Vakharia, Asoo J. (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2018-03-14)
      "Sabotage" includes a set of firm-specific, non-price related actions negatively influencing competitor's outcomes. There are a large number of potential sabotage options available to integrated firms in direct competition ...

    • Demonetization 2016 and Black Economy 

      Kumar, Arun (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2017-11-07)
      On 8 November 2016, India demonetized high denomination currency, wiping out 86 per cent of the currency in circulation. India’s well-functioning economy went into a tailspin. This move, it was claimed, was made ...

    • Design of survivable telecommunication network: a polyhedral approach 

      Agarwal, Yogesh K. (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2012-09-21)
      We consider the problem of designing a survivable telecommunication network using facilities of a fixed capacity. Given a graph G = (V, E), the traffic demand among the nodes, and the cost of installing facilities on the ...

    • Designing retail stores to maximize visual experience 

      Parikh, Pratik (Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2017-03-07)
      The physical layout of a retail store is known to influence the stimuli and behavior of shoppers, eventually affecting their personal experience and store performance. This talk will focus on the visual stimuli of a shopper ...

    • Developing holistic framework for low-carbon supply chain 

      Kumar, Niraj (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2013-06-17)

    • Development Conflicts We Know Nothing Of 

      Prasad, Rohit (Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2017-02-08)
      The typical narrative of development conflict is of a rapacious industry that is unwilling to share the gains of development with people affected by projects and, instead, prone to paying off politicians, bureaucrats and ...

    • Development of a casual framework linking high performance HRM practices, positive psychological capital, creative behaviours and performance 

      Gupta, Vishal (2014-02-14)
      Synthesizing the ideas of high-performance Human Resource Management (HRM), positive psychological capital, and componential theory of creativity, the present study develops a multi-level causal framework linking ...

    • Different Worlds Together: How Researchers and Practitioners Co-create Knowledge 

      Sharma, Garima (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 ...

    • Diffusing Coordination Risk 

      Basak, Deepal (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2018-11-02)
      Agents face strategic uncertainty in a regime change game that is akin to debt rollover. A mass of agents sequentially decide whether to attack a regime or not, but they do not observe the past actions of other agents. A ...

    • Disruption and Resilience Issues in Freight Transportation 

      Verma, Manish (Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2016-08-08)
      Freight transportation is crucial to the lifeline of modern society because it connects the producers to geographically dispersed consumers. In North America, this connection is facilitated by an extensive freight ...

    • Do Activity-Based Incentive Plans Work? Evidence from a Large-Scale Field Experiment 

      Rao, Raghunath Singh (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2019-03-29)
      Despite theory-based expectations, and actual usage in practice, we lack any evidence about sales productivity gains from activity-based incentive (ABI) pay. Such plans incorporate activity scores from salespersons’ call ...

    • Do Expectations Reflect Information Reliability? Evidence From Odds on Tennis Matches 

      Mavis, Christos (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2019-01-22)
      We examine whether people form expectations by placing a larger weight on more reliable signals. To test this notion, we analyze subjective probabilities inferred from odds offered on the outcomes of men's tennis matches, ...

    • Do Families Reduce or Raise Agency Conflicts? The Ratio of Board Control to Ownership 

      Uhlenbruck, Klaus (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2018-02-08)
      Large family owners monitor managers, which attenuates principal-agent conflicts and improves firm performance. However, these owners can also appropriate resources, which creates principal-principal conflicts and harms ...

    • Do Programs Mandating Small Business Lending Disincentivize Growth? Evidence from a Policy Experiment 

      Prabhala, N R (Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2016-07-04)
      Exploiting discontinuities in program eligibility, we show that small-firm lending mandates inhibit firm growth. Firms newly qualified under lending mandates near the upper threshold for treatment have lower growth in ...

    • Does Health Influence Risk Preference? 

      Kumar, Sanjeev (Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2016-12-16)
      This paper investigates whether self-assessed health (SAH) status—a measure of health stock—influences the risk preference of an individual. Using the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add Health), we ...

    • Does Learning from Inspections Affect Environmental Performance? - Evidence from Unconventional Well Development in Pennsylvania 

      Muthulingam, Suresh (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 ...

    • Doing Good Research 

      Radhakrishnan, Suresh (Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2015-01-06)
      The R & P seminar held at Wing 11 IIM Ahmedabad on January 06, 2015 by Prof. Suresh Radhakrishnan, The University of Texas, Dallas

    • Dynamic Tax Competition, Home Bias and the gain from Non-preferential Taxation Regimes: A case for unilateral commitment 

      Kishore, Kaushal (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2017-10-27)
      In a dynamic two-period model of tax competition between two symmetric countries, where an investor has home bias for the country where he/she invests in the initial period, we show that a country has an incentive to ...