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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 ...
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 ...
Multiscaling in Finance
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2017-11-10)
The multiscaling behaviour of financial time-series is one of the acknowledged stylized facts in the literature [1]. The source of the measured multifractality in financial markets has been long debated and it has been ...
Constructing race and ethnicity: Category-making in public policy and administration – the cases of the US and Netherlands
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2017-11-16)
The US federal government named and defined its demographic categories for the first time in 1977, in the Office of Management and Budget Directive No. 15. The Netherlands also defines and uses “identity” categories in ...
The Kumbh Mela Experiment (KME): Measuring and understanding the dynamics of mankind's largest crowd - Experiences from Kumbh Mela 2016 in Ujjain
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2017-11-07)
The Kumbh Mela Experiment (KME) is an ongoing Indo-Dutch collaborative research project funded jointly by the Department of Electronics and Information Technology (DeitY), Govt. of India, and Netherlands Organization for ...
Dynamic Tax Competition, Home Bias and the gain from Non-preferential Taxation Regimes: A case for unilateral commitment
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2017-10-27)
In a dynamic two-period model of tax competition between two symmetric countries, where an investor has home bias for the country where he/she invests in the initial period, we show that a country has an incentive to ...
High Non-GAAP Earnings Predict Abnormally High CEO Pay
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2017-11-09)
Using the standard academic model of executive compensation, we document excessive CEO pay for the S&P 500 firms that report non-GAAP earnings that are much higher than their GAAP earnings. We also find that, on average, ...