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What is Impactful Research?
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2017-03-03)
As researchers, we continue to do research in areas which appear to have buzzwords or perpetuated by researchers from so-called top universities or by so-called top researchers from other universities. There is a need for ...
Money and Meaning in the Modern Law Firm
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2017-04-28)
After the 2008 economic crisis, the legal profession in the US (and indeed in many Western economies) has found itself at an inflection point. Whereas prior to 2008, revenue and clients were fairly plentiful, the economic ...
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" ...
Is financial inclusion good for bank stability? International evidence
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2017-07-24)
Financial inclusion has become an important public policy priority following the recent global financial crisis. Yet, we know very little of how it impacts soundness of the providers of financial services. Using an ...
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 ...
Cascading Pedagogy: Developing Critical Consciousness & Transferable Skills Whilst Teaching Gender Studies
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2017-09-07)
In this paper I reflect on my own and my students' experiences within an elective course on Gender Studies to discuss how teachers might reconcile their responsibility for developing students’ critical consciousness along ...
The Social Life of Trade Union Politics in Argentina
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2017-09-19)
I will discuss my recent ethnographic work on the ethical lives and collective political action of two unions of state employees in Argentina. I examine how activists in both unions create themselves as particular kinds ...
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 ...
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 ...
From Clients to Citizens: Lessons from Brazil's Bolsa Familia for Delhi
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2017-11-17)
This presentation is a comparative reflection on welfare policy implementation in an Indian city--the city state of Delhi, which is also the national capital, in the light of lessons from Brazil's Bolsa Familia social ...