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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, ...
Demonetization 2016 and Black Economy
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2017-11-07)
On 8 November 2016, India demonetized high denomination currency, wiping out 86 per cent of the currency in circulation. India’s well-functioning economy went into a tailspin.
This move, it was claimed, was made ...
“I” seek uniqueness and “WE” avoid risk: The role of consumer motivation in retail shopping
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2017-11-03)
Retailers frequently use selling cues for effective promotional campaigns. Drawing from consumer regulatory focus motivation and selling cue literature, this research explores the influences of selling cue, consumer ...
Who are the Goldsmiths? Migrant Artisans' Guilds and the Changing Contours of Goldsmithing in India
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2017-09-13)
In India, while gold is a highly regulated and monitored commodity, goldsmithing has been primarily an unregulated economic activity. The paper describes how goldsmithing, which was once a caste-based occupation, gradually ...
Optimization Software and Systems for Operations Research: Best Practices and Current Trends
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2017-12-18)
For a great variety of large-scale optimization problems arising in Operations Research applications, it has become practical to rely on "off-the-shelf" software, without any special programming of algorithms. As a result ...
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, ...