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High-Cost Debt and Borrower Reputation: Evidence from the U.K
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2016-09-14)When taking up high-cost debt signals poor credit risk to lenders, consumers must trade off alleviating credit constraints today with exacerbating them in the future. We document this trade-off by exploiting the random ... -
Homeownership and the American Dream - An Analysis of Intergenerational Mobility Effects
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2016-09-30)The benefits of homeownership feature prominently in the academic literature and policy discussion alike. Increasing homeownership has been a major policy goal in the US for decades, especially in low-income areas. We show ... -
How does point-of-purchase advertising influence sales? A randomized field study
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2015-12-11)Point of Purchase (POP) advertising is ubiquitous; it is hard to find a retail store, fast food restaurant, or convenience store that does not have signs and banners advertising various brands. Despite its frequent use, ... -
How long the shadow of the city? The impact of urbanisation on schooling
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2018-02-16)What is the impact of rapid urbanisation on rural schooling? In this paper we use data from the district of Gautam Buddha Nagar, lying in Uttar Pradesh and bordering Delhi, to answer this question. This district has seen ... -
Identification, contribution and influence in internationally diverse teams: do emotions in initial team meetings matter?
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Identifying the most and least promising customers through similarity kernels
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2015-12-11)Research has demonstrated that identifying profitable customers and acquiring them is far more expensive than retaining existing customers. The higher cost emerges because firms are unable to identify the truly profitable ... -
Impact of deregulation of government securities market on interest costs of the states in India
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2012-07-24) -
The Impact of Directed Choice on the Design of Preventive Healthcare Facility Network under Congestion
(2014-07)Preventive healthcare (PH) programs and services aim at reducing the likelihood and severity of potentially life-threatening illness by early detection and prevention. The effectiveness of these programs depends on the ... -
Impact of private tutoring on learning levels: evidence from India
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2014-03-07)Despite widespread and substantial private expenditure on private coaching outside the formal school system in many developing countries, not much is known about their effects on learning outcomes. The main challenge in ... -
The impacts of the installation of the water-meter in Indian cities
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2011-09-21) -
The impossible optimization problem
(2017-09-15)Science and technology education seeks to restructure -- i.e engineer-- the most complex system we know of (the brain), in a way that it incorporates the most complex intellectual capabilities developed by our species ... -
Improving the effectiveness of multi-sector partnerships where no one is in charge: generalizing from the case of flood defenses in the UK
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Inclusive education in Delhi: Understating teachers' perspectives and beliefs
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2018-12-21)This study examines the perceptions and beliefs of general education teachers about the inclusion of students with disabilities (SWDs) in regular education classrooms. Using hermeneutic phenomenology as a methodological ... -
India 2050: A Roadmap to Sustainable Prosperity
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2015-02-26)The R & P seminar held at Wing 11 IIM Ahmedabad on February 26, 2015 by Dr. Ramgopal Agarwala, Chairman of Pahle India Foundation -
Indian Brand of Crony Capitalism: The Cultural Underpinnings
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2017-01-06)One grave concern that the Indian economy/society face today is that of ubiquitous corruption/cronyism. Despite its importance, there is dearth of scholarly treatment of this phenomenon. In this presentation, we examine ... -
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 ... -
Inequity aversion in organizational hierarchies
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2014-02-12) -
An infrastructure investment methodology to risk mitigation from rail hazmat shipments
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2019-01-25)A significant majority of hazardous materials (hazmat), including those integral to sustain our industrial lifestyle such as crude oil, are produced and consumed at different locations, and therefore need to be transported ... -
Innovation and Creativity:Building Knowledge-based economies in Asia and the Pacific
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2015-01-10)The R & P seminar held at Wing 11 IIM Ahmedabad on January 10, 2015 by Mr. Bindu N. Lohani, Asian Development Bank, New Delhi -
Integrating anticipative replenishment-allocation with reactive fulfillment for online retailing using robust optimization
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2020-05-12)The aggressive expansion in e-commerce sales significantly escalates online retailers' operating costs. Typically, in each period of a planning horizon, an online retailer decides on how much to replenish each product and ...