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Help or hindrance? Implications of fully automated vehicles
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2019-05-30)
Experts predict that new automobiles will be capable of driving themselves under limited conditions within 5-10 years, and under most conditions within 10-20 years. Automation may affect road vehicle energy consumption and ...
Women’s adverse incorporation into party politics: political labour in India and Indonesia
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2019-08-28)
Despite policies and initiatives to address women’s under-representation in formal politics across Asia, the problem remains entrenched (Paxton and Hughes 2014). Significant scholarly work has examined the extent of, and ...
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 ...
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 ...
Text mining for financial and non-financial information from SEC filings, and textual analysis for predictive models and risk assessment
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2019-09-17)
The recent developments in information technology in terms of text mining tools and search engines like Google is not only changing the way we gather information and conduct research, but also changing the kinds of questions ...
Effect of international marketing alliance dissolution on the shareholder's value of emerging market partner firm
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2019-09-19)
As part of their global growth strategy, multinational corporations headquartered in developed markets (DMs) are increasingly entering emerging markets (EMs) such as India and China by forming international marketing joint ...
Wealth Distribution, Pattern of Trade and Capital Flows- Role of Credit Market Imperfection
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2019-01-21)
This paper explores the impact of wealth distribution on pattern of trade and capital flows with credit rationing. More egalitarian societies may aggravate the impact of credit rationing and that may lead to import of ...
Causal inference and finite population sampling
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2019-01-17)
In recent years, there has been a significant interest in causal inference in a potential outcomes framework, with applications to such diverse fields as sociology, behavioral sciences, biomedical sciences, and so on. The ...