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