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The badla system revisited
(2009-12-12)This paper is an attempt to examine the issues underlying the current debate about reintroducing the badla system. The differences between badla system on one hand and options and futures markets on the other are highlighted. ... -
Badla system: a reappraisal
(2010-04-03)The badla system, which allowed transactions to be carried forward from one trading valan to the next, was banned by the SEBI in March 1994. SEBI was hoping that for the purpose of speculative trading, an internationally ... -
Badla trading: a primer and a proposal
(2010-03-31)This paper explains the mechanics of badla trading and settlement. It reviews badla transactions, fixation of havala rates and margins, the market process of determining the badla rates, and payment procedures. The accounting ... -
Bagasse based paper and newprint in India: economic and policy issues
(2010-07-20)Bagasse usage as a cellulosic material for paper and newsprint making has been induced by the Government of India. The paper summarizes the relevant policies. Seven caselets pertaining to bagasse based paper and newsprint ... -
Balancing U-shaped assembly lines with resource dependent task times: a simulated annealing approach
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2013)The advent of Just-in-Time (JIT) and Group Technology philosophies has popularized U-shaped assembly lines, which help overcome many of the disadvantages, like line inflexibility, job monotony, large inventories, etc., ... -
Bangalore Cluster: Evolution, Growth and Challenges
(2009-09-01)The dynamism and persistence of competitiveness among industrial clusters, even in the wake of globalization and liberalization in the 1990s, has led researchers to explore the causes of dynamic efficiencies at the cluster ... -
Banking for rural transformation: issues for '90s
(2010-03-15)Banking for rural transformation in nineties will face many challenges that require hard choices. Challenges from demand side include (a) declining profitability and sustainability of agriculture, (b) continued stagnation ... -
Banking in backward regions: banks-NGO-poor interface alternatives for action
(2010-03-19)The problem of improving access of poor to formal banking system in risky ecological regions has acquired added importance in recent times. The ecological imbalances, reduced opportunities for productive investments, ... -
Bargaining with a variable population for games with a reference point
(2010-03-25)We consider axiomatic models of bargaining defined over a domain of problems containing different numbers of agents, define a concept called restricted monotonicity with respect of changes in the number of agents, and show ... -
Baroda's experiment in urban decentralization: a study of some administrative aspects
(2010-04-17)This is an exploratory study of some of the administrative problems of urban decentralization in the city of Baroda. It is an empirical study based on open and unstructured but indepth interviews with corporation officials, ... -
Bases of involment in work and family contexts
(2010-03-14)The paper reports on a bi-national study of involvement in work and family contexts. Using heterogeneous samples of managerial personnel in India and Canada, the explored the differential need patterns aroused in work and ... -
Bases of work motivation in development societies: a framework for performance management
(2010-03-25)In this essay authors endeavored to analyse and understand variables that adversely affect level of motivation and performance of people within work organizations in developing societies. The authors analyse and identify ... -
Basic Emergency Obstetric Care for mothers and newborns through 24 x 7 primary health centres A case study of three 24/7 PHCs from a high focus district in India
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2014)The National Rural health Mission created 24X7 Primary Health Centres in order to provide basic emergency and obstetric services to women. The current study looked into how far the above NRHM objective has been met. Our ... -
The battle of sexes - ingratiation, gender and LMX
(2010-04-03)The hypothesis that subordinate ingratiation and subordinate gender will interact to influence LMX quality, such that ingratiation will have a stronger positive impact on LMX relationships for female subordinates than ... -
A Bayesian analysis of racial di erences in treatment among breast-cancer patients
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2015)It is a well known fact that race and ethnicity specific variations exist in the treatment and survival of cancer patients. Studies based on breast cancer patients admitted to community hospitals in U.S depicted that there ... -
A Bayesian Analysis of the Change Point Problem for Directional Data using SIR
(2009-07-25)In this paper we discuss a simple fully Bayesian analysis of the change point problem for the directional data in the parametric framework with circular normal distribution as the underlying distribution. We discuss ... -
Behaviour of excess stock return around earnings announcement day: A test of the efficiency of Kuala Lumpur stock exchange
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 1998-11-01)This study is concerned with analyzing stock returns around periods of earnings announcements. Three hundred and sixty-four earnings announcement dates (events) were obtained from the annual earnings announcements of 91 ... -
Behaviour of firms subject to imperfect markets
(2010-03-13)Survey of available theories in economic literature would reveal that analysis of a firm's behavior is performed, either, under the assumption of perfect competition in factor as well as output markets or by letting ... -
Behaviour of income shares in a developing economy - the Indian experience
(2010-03-14)This paper makes an attempt to analyze the behaviour of relative factor shares in an underdeveloped country passing through the early stages of rapid economic development. The main purpose of the analysis is to advance ...