R & P Seminar: Recent submissions
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Growth out of the blue: nightlight and economic activity
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2018-03-14)Measuring GDP is especially challenging in developing countries, where the informal sector is large and institutional constraints can be severe. As a result, GDP growth estimates are often met with skepticism. But new ... -
A spatial hedonic analysis of the value of groundwater to agriculture
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2018-03-08)Groundwater provides many valuable services to society, especially as a source of irrigation water. However, over-extraction and degradation threaten the ability of many groundwater systems to continue to provide such ... -
Different Worlds Together: How Researchers and Practitioners Co-create Knowledge
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2018-01-05)The communities of research and practice are embedded in epistemic cultures that favor specific strategies, practices, and apparatus – in other words, ways of knowing. Scholars have investigated the differences between ... -
Economic measures of capacity utilization: A nonparametric cost function analysis
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2018-01-05)Cost based measures of capacity utilization and capacity output are important metrics for evaluating firm performance. Understanding where firms are producing on their average cost curve provides information about whether ... -
Weather, Affect, and Consumption Preference for Hedonic and Utilitarian Products: The Moderating Role of Gender
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2018-01-22)How and why does the association between weather and hedonic consumption differ between males and females? This paper theorizes that females have a stronger affective response to weather conditions, which subsequently ... -
Spatial Analysis: A Helicopter Tour (From the Beginning to the Frontier)
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2018-01-12)We will begin at the beginning of spatial analysis, around mid-18th century. The introduction will be at a general level of epidemiology. Then we will slowly move to spatial statistics, spatial econometrics and finally to, ... -
A Recombination-Based Internationalization Model: Findings from Narayana Health’s Journey from India to the Cayman Islands
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2018-01-11)We present a longitudinal study of the expansion of Narayana Health (NH), a healthcare provider, within India and its subsequent development of a tertiary care hospital in the Cayman Islands. Contrary to past research ... -
Promise and politicians in an uncertain world: Evidence from a lab-in-the-field experiment in India
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2018-01-09)In parliamentary democracies, politicians play an obvious and critical role in choosing and implementing policies. A key question in implementation failures, especially due to the uncertainty about the true state of nature, ... -
Prior Startup Experience, Social Networks, and Transnational Entrepreneurship in Silicon Valley
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2018-01-04)This paper contributes to our understanding of the role played by startup experience and social networks in two countries – India and the US – in influencing and enabling immigrant diaspora entrepreneurs to found cross-border ... -
Investigating the Impact of Pace, Rhythm, and Scope of New Product Introduction (NPI) Process on Firm Value
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2018-01-03)Scholars have identified several benefits of new product introductions (NPI), yet the literature has largely overlooked the pattern of NPI in generating marketplace insights and influencing subsequent products. Building ... -
Does Learning from Inspections Affect Environmental Performance? - Evidence from Unconventional Well Development in Pennsylvania
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2017-12-22)With the growing awareness that operations can affect the environment, regulators increasingly use facility inspections to assess a firm’s environmental performance: whether its operations comply with or violate environmental ... -
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 ... -
Inequality and Economic Growth: The Role of Initial Income
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2017-12-15)We estimate a panel model where the relationship between inequality and GDP per capita growth depends on countries' initial incomes. Estimates of the model show that the relationship between inequality and GDP per capita ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ...