R & P Seminar: Recent submissions

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    • Partisan Politics and the Tragedy of the Commons: Groundwater Depletion in India’s Breadbasket 

      Urpelainen, Johannes (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 ...

    • Challenges in Creating a Premier Institute of Higher Technological Education in a Remote Area: A Case Study of IIT Mandi 

      Gonsalves, Timothy A. (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 ...

    • MNCs and Global Foreign Policy: A trend we may have missed in the last 5 Years 

      Badkas, Sachin Kumar (Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2016-01-05)
      On the international stage, the multinational corporation has been sneaking up on traditional prerogatives of the state, with surprisingly little mainstream commentary on the trend. The talk singles out news stories from ...

    • How does point-of-purchase advertising influence sales? A randomized field study 

      Mishra, Himanshu; Mishra, Arul (Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2015-12-11)
      Point of Purchase (POP) advertising is ubiquitous; it is hard to find a retail store, fast food restaurant, or convenience store that does not have signs and banners advertising various brands. Despite its frequent use, ...

    • Bayesian Nonparametrics - Dirichlet Process and application 

      Ramamoorthi, R. V. (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2015-12-15)
      This talk would present a brief overview of some popular priors studied in Bayesian nonparametrics. Starting with Dirichlet process, we will explore mixture models hierarchical models and indicate some applications. If ...

    • Access, Agenda Constraint and Informational Lobbying 

      Oak, Mandar (Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2015-12-21)
      We develop a model of informational lobbying in which a policymaker must decide which issues to implement reforms on. On each issue there is an informed interest group that always favour the adoption of reform, and which ...

    • Corporate Social Responsibility Report Narratives and Analyst Forecast Accuracy 

      Radhakrishnan, Suresh (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 ...

    • Corporate Debt Restructuring, Bank Competition and Stability: Evidence from creditors’ perspective 

      Mallick, Sushanta (Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2015-12-14)
      This paper estimates the causal effect of a unique programme of corporate debt restructuring (CDR) on stability of Indian banks over the period 1992-2012. The banks who participated in the programme were extended regulatory ...

    • Identifying the most and least promising customers through similarity kernels 

      Mishra, Arul (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 ...

    • Economic Inequality from Statistical Physics Point of View 

      Yakovenko, Victor (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 ...

    • Missing Men, Migration and Labour Markets:Evidence from India 

      Tumbe, Chinmay (Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2015-12-02)
      How do labor markets function when a large part of the able-bodied male workforce is absent due to out-migration? This question holds great significance as it affects regions covering over 200 million people in India and ...

    • The touch of Midas or the curse of Bhasmasura? Learning from failures of Indian investments in Finland 

      Mathur, Ajeet Narain (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2015-11-23)
      This seminar presentation contributes to expanding the conversations around investments of multinational companies from emerging economies (EMNCs) in developed countries. The purpose is to invite attention to management ...

    • The Fallacy of National Culture 

      Venaik, Sunil Dr (Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2015-10-30)
      The international business and management literature is dominated by the national culture perspective pioneered by Hofstede (1980) with his national culture dimensions and scores, and extended by Gelfand et al. (2011), ...

    • Exploring Sustainability Issues in Supply Chains 

      Vakharia, Asoo J. (Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2015-10-05)
      Sustainability initiatives are at the forefront of many firms' agendas today. Consumers and government mandates are both calling for environment-friendly business practices. In this presentation, we will examine sustainability ...

    • Coal-fired power plants in India 

      Sugathan, Anish (Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2015-09-10)
      India has more than doubled its power generation capacity between the years 2000 to 2014 and coal accounts for more than 66% of its total electricity production. Since 1961, the ‘pit-head’ plant placement policy of India, ...

    • On Path Decompositions of Graphs and Multigraphs 

      Tipnis, Shailesh K (Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2015-08-28)
      For graphs G and H, graph G is said to admit an H-decomposition if the edges of G can be partitioned into isomorphic copies of H. Let P4 denote the path on 4 vertices. We survey results that assert that certain graphs and ...

    • When are rewards bad for innovation? Examining the linkages between leadership, work motivation and employee innovativeness in the Indian R&D context 

      Gupta, Vishal (Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2015-08-27)
      Building on the foundations of self-determination theory of motivation, the present study investigates the association between leader behaviors, autonomous motivation and employee innovativeness (innovative work behavior ...

    • Fraud, Corruption and Bribery: How to Detect and How to Prevent 

      Kumar, Kuldeep (Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2015-04-26)
      Much of the rhetoric from India's last electoral campaigns has focused on corruption. In fact billions of dollars are lost every year due to fraud related activities. Financial fraud and then the consequent bankruptcy of ...

    • Policy Innovations, Political Preferences, and Cartel Prosecutions 

      Sokol, D. Daniel (Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2015-08-10)
      The R & P seminar held at Wing 11 Committee Room, IIM Ahmedabad on August 10, 2015 by Prof. D. Daniel Sokol, Professor of Law, University of Florida Levin College of Law on Policy Innovations, Political Preferences, and ...

    • Global Contamination Assessment and Remediation of the Environment 

      Naidu, Ravi (Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2015-08-03)
      The R & P seminar held at Wing 11 Committee Room, IIM Ahmedabad on August 3, 2015 by Prof. Ravi Naidu, Chief Executive Officer & Managing Director of Cooperative Research Centre for Contamination Assessment and Remediation ...