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Strategic Connections in a hierarchical society: wedge between observed and fundamental valuations
(Springer Science + Business Media, 2021-01-01)
In an interconnected society, social networks grow through formation of strategic connections based on the hierarchy within the social network. Often, the hierarchy becomes self-reinforcing and the observed valuations of ...
Stochastic modeling of multiline orders in integrated storage-order picking system
(John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2021-02-19)
Due to demanding service levels in e-commerce order fulfillment, modeling and analysis of integrated storage and order picking processes in warehouses deserve special attention. The upstream storage system can have a ...
Solving bilevel optimization problems using Kriging approximations
(IEEE, 2021-03-21)
Bilevel optimization involves two levels of optimization, where one optimization problem is nested within the other. The structure of the problem often requires solving a large number of inner optimization problems that ...
Residential education for disadvantaged girls: an alternate field?
(SAGE Publications, 2021-03-15)
In this article, we engage with the experiences of students in a government-run residential secondary school that enrols girls primarily from disadvantaged socio-economic backgrounds. Through an exploration of the history ...
Optimal monopoly mechanisms with demand uncertainty
(INFORMS: Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences, 2021-03-10)
This paper analyzes a monopoly firm’s profit-maximizing mechanism in the following context. There is a continuum of consumers with a unit demand for a good. The distribution of the consumers’ valuations is given by one of ...
Connecting smallholders' marketplace decisions to agricultural market reform policy in India - an empirical exploration
(SAGE Publications, 2021-03-03)
Governments in developing countries have attempted to reform inefficient agricultural markets through direct interventions, market-oriented approaches, and institutional mechanisms, with one of the aims being improving the ...
Space between products on display: the impact of interspace on consumer estimation of product size
(Springer Science + Business Media, 2021-03-30)
This research examines the effect that leaving space between products has on consumers’ estimation of product size. We theorize and empirically confirm that when space is left between products (i.e., the display is ...
Implementation gaps in minimum wages: comparison of eight Asian countries
(Shri Ram Centre for IR & HR, 2021-01)
Minimum Wages (MW) have been an important policy instrument used by governments for labor market stabilization and also to improve the worki ng conditions. While the re have been ongoing debates about the impact of MW, ...
Do Big 4 auditors limit classification shifting? evidence from India
(Elsevier, 2021-01-20)
Extant research suggests that Big 4 auditors compared to non-Big 4 auditors act as a superior deterrent to accrual-based earnings management. We extend this research to another form of earnings management, classification ...
Influence of endogenous reference points on the selling decisions of retail investors
(John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2021-12-03)
Using trader-level data, we examine the impact of the stock-specific endogenous reference points, the ‘realized-return’ and the ‘peak-return’ of the prior round on the selling propensity in a subsequent investment round ...