Browsing R & P Seminar by Title
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Access, Agenda Constraint and Informational Lobbying
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2015-12-21)We develop a model of informational lobbying in which a policymaker must decide which issues to implement reforms on. On each issue there is an informed interest group that always favour the adoption of reform, and which ... -
Achieving social objectives using sponsorship-endorser portfolios
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2016-11-10)Increasingly, nonprofits are utilizing social partnerships, such as celebrity endorsements or commercial sponsorships, to realize their social objectives and donation goals. The impact of corporate sponsorship on consumer ... -
Analysis of MILP techniques for the pooling problem
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An Analysis of Multivariate final-offer arbitration
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2016-01-29)First proposed in 1966, in the United States Final-Offer Arbitration has been adopted by Major League Baseball as well as in the public sector in many states as a means or resolving negotiation impasses. We will discuss ... -
Anchoring in CSR Spending
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2014-12-31)The R & P seminar held at Wing 11 IIM Ahmedabad on December 31, 2014 by Prof. Viswanath Pingali, IIM Ahmedabad -
Are Subsidies on Drip Irrigation Working? Evidence from Gujarat?
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2017-02-21)Subsidies on technologies that reduce environmental externalities are popular with policy makers in developing countries. However, given “investment inefficiencies” and the multiple other factors potentially inhibiting ... -
Art and science of financial analysis using simple cases
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2017-01-04)In my own teaching experience at top business schools, I have found that the MBA curriculum often lacked the one class that brings together knowledge from diverse areas such as accounting, economics, finance, production ... -
Aspiration, Learning and Social Change
(2014-07)We consider the problem of the transition from the Pareto inferior pure strategy Nash equilibrium in the stag hunt game to the Pareto superior equilibrium. We adopt the methodology of learning and evolutionary game theory ... -
Assessing recent Social Security Programs in India
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2016-12-12)There has been a major expansion of social security programmes in India during the last fifteen years or so, along with wider recognition of economic and social rights. This paper discusses five programmes of interest: ... -
Asymmetric influence of goal orientation dissimilarity: a matter of perception
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Batching Decisions for E-Commerce Order Fulfilment: Technology, Models, and Data Insights
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2016-09-01)Due to today’s customer expectations of fast delivery of a wide-range of products, companies are under pressure to reduce the order fulfilment time, i.e., the time from receiving an order to the time it takes to get an ... -
Bayesian learning and it’s applications for image processing
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Bayesian Nonparametrics - Dirichlet Process and application
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2015-12-15)This talk would present a brief overview of some popular priors studied in Bayesian nonparametrics. Starting with Dirichlet process, we will explore mixture models hierarchical models and indicate some applications. If ... -
Big Data, Big Promise, Big Challenge: Can Small Area Estimation Play a Role in the Big Data Centric World?
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2018-02-09)The demand for various socio-economic, transportation, and health statistics for small geographical areas is steadily increasing at a time when survey agencies are desperately looking for ways to reduce costs to meet fixed ... -
Birth weight and cognitive development during childhood: evidence from India
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2019-12-02)Health at birth is an important indicator of human capital development over the life course. This paper uses longitudinal data from the Young Lives survey and employs instrumental variable regression models to estimate the ... -
Blowing Smoke: The Management of Moral Illegitimacy by the U.S. Tobacco Industry
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2016-01-13)U.S. corporations have had a remarkable history of overcoming challenges to their moral legitimacy. While a number of established theoretical positions have argued that organizational wrongdoing is likely to be a tremendous ... -
Building legitimacy in an adverse foreign environment: when the liability of foreignness can become a source of competitive advantage?
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2016-08-29)Although the banking industry is by nature risk-prone, network-based and subject to strong institutional barriers, banks going international generally operate alone. Within a context of high liability of foreignness, how ... -
Can academic integration reduce the economic divide: An Analysis of the RTE Act in India
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2019-02-18)The Right to Education (RtE) Act enforced in 2009 requires all private schools in India to admit 25% children from economically weaker sections. If successful, the act may play a key role in reducing the widening social ... -
Can innovation help Entrepreneurs and enable service provision
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2014-05-28)The seminar on R & P held at Wing 11 IIM Ahmedabad on May 28, 2014 by Prof. Vijay Modi, Columbia University, New York, USA -
Can we infer the "laws" of finance from big data?
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2017-08-24)A distinction often made between the physical sciences and social sciences is that the latter are not as amenable as the former to controlled experiments for rigorously verifying predictions made from theory. However, ...