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Partisan Politics and the Tragedy of the Commons: Groundwater Depletion in India’s Breadbasket
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2016-01-08)
India's agriculture depends on groundwater irrigation, but this critical resource is depleting. Abundant supply of heavily subsidized electricity plays a key role in this depletion by allowing farmers to operate powerful ...
Game theory - The Mathematics for Conflict Resolution
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2016-01-28)
Game theory can be broadly classified into cooperative and non cooperative games. In non-cooperative games the key solution concept is the notion of a Nash equilibrium. In cooperative games, the key issue is how to split ...
Identifying the most and least promising customers through similarity kernels
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2015-12-11)
Research has demonstrated that identifying profitable customers and acquiring them is far more expensive than retaining existing customers. The higher cost emerges because firms are unable to identify the truly profitable ...
Corporate Social Responsibility Report Narratives and Analyst Forecast Accuracy
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2015-12-16)
Standalone corporate social responsibility (CSR) reports vary considerably in content due in part to their voluntary nature and the lack of an accountability framework in CSR reporting. In this study, we develop a CSR ...
Economic Inequality from Statistical Physics Point of View
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2015-12-02)
Similarly to the probability distribution of energy in physics, the probability distribution of money among the agents in a closed economic system is also expected to follow the exponential Boltzmann-Gibbs law, as a ...
Challenges in Creating a Premier Institute of Higher Technological Education in a Remote Area: A Case Study of IIT Mandi
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2016-01-07)
In 2009, a picturesque 500-acre campus in a remote Himalayan river valley was selected for an IIT. With a population of barely 200, beset by landslides and bitterly cold winters, the village of Kamand is 45 minutes from ...
Blowing Smoke: The Management of Moral Illegitimacy by the U.S. Tobacco Industry
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2016-01-13)
U.S. corporations have had a remarkable history of overcoming challenges to their moral legitimacy. While a number of established theoretical positions have argued that organizational wrongdoing is likely to be a tremendous ...
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 ...