• State-owned banks and credit allocation in India: evidence from an asset quality review 

  Das, Abhiman; Mohapatra, Sanket; Nigania, Akshita (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2022-02-01)

  This paper examines the role of state-owned banks’ presence in allocation of credit to different sectors in India using the central bank's Asset Quality Review (AQR) as a quasi-natural experiment. The AQR resulted in a ...

• Impact of mergers and acquisitions on innovation: evidence from a panel of Indian pharmaceutical firms 

  Basant, Rakesh; Jaiswal, Neha (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2022-01-01)

  Based on the literature, the paper identifies processes that get initiated post an M&A event and affect the acquiring firm’s innovation efforts. We apply panel fixed effects estimation techniques to analyze the individual ...

• Exploring gender perceptions of nuclear energy in India 

  Govindan, Mini; Ram Mohan, M. P. (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2021-11-06)

  There are numerous studies that have examined the role of gender on differential perceptions on various aspects of energy, including those related to nuclear plants. Yet, few studies have explored the role of changing ...

• Intellectual property licenses in cross-border insolvency: lessons from In Re Qimonda 

  Ram Mohan, M. P.; Gupta, Aditya (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2021-11-05)

  Introduced in 2016, the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code overhauled the Indian insolvency regime. Five years young, the work in progress Code is now in the process of adopting the Cross-Border insolvency, which was omitted ...

• COVID-19 and period products usage among menstruating women in urban and rural India 

  Babbar, Karan; Dev, Pritha (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2021-11-03)

  This paper estimates the impact of the lockdown across various zones on the period product consumption for menstruating women in India. We have used the national-level panel data from the CMIE’s Consumer Pyramids Household ...

• Modelling the impact of ovulatory cycle knowledge on the number of children and age of women at first birth 

  Babbar, Karan; Dev, Pritha (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2021-11-04)

  Unplanned pregnancies are an important public health issue, and 15% of unplanned pregnancies across the world happen in India. Ovulatory cycle knowledge (OCK) is an important yet relatively unexplored component in ...

• Gold is old: noble metal in Indian economy through ages 

  Deodhar, Satish Y. (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2021-11-01)

  For millennia, gold is considered auspicious in India and consumers have a fascination for possessing gold, gold jewellery, and gold coins. In this paper I document the sacredness associated with gold, the ancient Indian ...

• Right to research and copyright law: from photocopying to shadow libraries 

  Ram Mohan, M. P.; Gupta, Aditya (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2021-09-03)

  Academic research and publishing are facing a crisis. The importance of access to academic literature in an interconnected world, the ever-growing cost of subscriptions to this literature, different revenue models of ...

• Targeted interventions: consumption dynamics and distributional effects 

  Chakrabarti, Anindya S.; Mishra, Abinash; Mohaghegh, Mohsen (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2021-09-02)

  Income distribution-based targeted interventions are quite common in developing economies. However, often due to institutional frictions, identification of the recipients happens at a lower frequency than the frequency of ...

• Optimal transport based drift detection for sensor streams: method and applications in transportation 

  Laha, Arnab Kumar; Verma, Shikha (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2021-09-01)

  With increasing adoption of Internet of Things (IoT) across the transportation sector, there is a growing need for developing algorithms for analyzing data streams. Due to dynamic operating environment conditions in the ...

• Tracing director liability framework during borderline insolvency & corporate failure in India 

  Ram Mohan, M. P.; Shah, Urmil (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2021-08-02)

  The life of a company depends upon the fine balance between its management led by Board of Directors and shareholder, and non-shareholder constituencies acting as the risk bearers. The Board of Directors therefore are ...

• Treatment of intellectual property license in insolvency: analysing Indian law in comparison with the U.S. and U K 

  Ram Mohan, M. P.; Gupta, Aditya (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2021-08-01)

  A bankrupt debtor’s ability to escape unprofitable contracts, enshrined in Section 365 of the American Bankruptcy Code, is considered central to a successful reorganisation within Chapter 11. The ambit of this power and ...

• Pandemic panic? effects of health system capacity on firm confidence during COVID-19 

  Gopalakrishnan, Balagopal; Lim, Jamus Jerome; Mohapatra, Sanket (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2021-07-02)

  In this study, we examine the impact of health system capacity and government responses on firms’ business confidence in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Using a sample of firm-level data from 53 countries, we find that ...

• Section 29A of India’s insolvency and bankruptcy code: an instance of hard cases making bad law? 

  Ram Mohan, M. P.; Raj, Vishakha (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2021-07-01)

  The Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016 offers a second chance to a distressed corporation but not its incumbent management. Section 29A of the IBC excludes promoters and the incumbent management of corporations with ...

• Insolvency set offs in India: a comparative perspective 

  Ram Mohan, M. P.; Raj, Vishakha (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2021-06-01)

  The overarching objective of the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016 (IBC) is to foster rescue culture in India and facilitate the reorganization, restoration and resolution of the corporate debtor rather than its ...

• Government responses, business continuity, and management sentiment: impact on debt financing during COVID-19 

  Gopalakrishnan, Balagopal; Joshy, Jacob; Mohapatra, Sanket (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2021-04-03)

  We examine how the government responses, amenability to remote working, and managerial outlook associated with COVID-19 influence debt financing by firms around the world. We find that the propensity and the amount of loan ...

• A minimum buyback requirement in open market repurchases: impact on the signalling role 

  Srivastava, Pranjal; Joshy, Jacob; Pandey, Ajay (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2021-04-02)

  The paper investigates the impact of the imposition of a minimum buyback requirement on open market repurchases in India. We find that the regulatory change has led to a significant increase in the abnormal stock returns ...

• The role of insolvency tests: implications for Indian insolvency law 

  Ram Mohan, M. P. (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2021-04-01)

  Insolvency determination is central to the formal insolvency and bankruptcy proceedings of a debtor entity. In determining whether a company is solvent or insolvent, two tests are generally used by the bankruptcy courts ...

• Public-Private Partnership (PPP) in Indian railways: models, framework, and policies 

  Sitharamaraju, K.; Beerelli, Santhosh Kumar; Yelne, Saket Anil; Narayanaswami, Sundaravalli (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2020-12-05)

  Indian Railways is the backbone of India's public transportation network. The Railway Ministry is one of the vital ministries of the Government of India with the mandate to provide economic and efficient rail transportation ...

• Determinants of disagreement: learning from Indian inflation expectations survey of households 

  Singh, Gaurav Kumar; Bandyopadhyay, Tathagata (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2021-01-01)

  This study explores the determinants of disagreement in households' belief on future inflation. Households commonly show strong information rigidity as a consequence of stickiness in their information update (Mankiw and ...

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