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Third Party Administrators and Health Insurance in India: Perception of Providers and Policyholders
(2009-09-04)The advent of Third Party Administrators (TPAs) is expected to play an important role in health insurance market in ensuring better services to policyholders. In addition, their presence is expected to address the cost ... -
Thorny Glory: Towards Organizational Greatness
(2012-10-11)It is argued that organizational greatness is worth probing because it may play a significant role in human evolution. Organizational greatness is postulated to require both performance excellence vis-à-vis organizations ... -
Threat bargaining games with a variable population
(2010-03-27)In this paper we establish links between desirable properties satisfied by familiar solutions to bargaining games with a variable population and the Nash equilibrium concept for threat bargaining games. -
Threat bargaining problems with correlated beliefs
(2010-07-27)In this paper we provide a general framework for studying threat bargaining games with correlated beliefs. In this framework we obtain a characterization of the Kalai-Smorodinsky solution without any monotonicity assumption. ... -
Threat bargaining problems with incomplete information
(2010-03-24)This paper is a revised version based on two of my earlier papers Lahiri (1989c) and Lahiri (1990). For useful suggestions and discussions I am grateful to Jim Jordan, T.Parthasarathy, Prakash Chander, Arunava Sen and the ... -
Threat bargaining problems with incomplete information and correlated beliefs
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 1990-01-01)In this paper we provide a general framework for studying threat bargaining games with incomplete information and correlated beliefs. In this framework we obtain a characterization of the Kalai- Smorodinsky solution without ... -
Threat bargaining problems with incomplete information and Nash's solution
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 1989-12-01)In this paper we extend the framework of threat bargaining games to include those with incomplete information. In this set up we address ourselves to two significant problems: (1) Under what conditions would 'truthful' ... -
Threshold and median rank solutions for transitive abstract games
(2010-01-16)In this paper we consider solutions defined on the class of transitive games. A solution is said to be a threshold solution, if for every subgame there exists an alternative such that the solution set for the subgame ... -
Threshold of median rank solutions
(2010-01-18)In this paper we consider solutions defined on the class of transitive tournaments. Such solutions are essentially rank solutions i.e. solutions which depend on the ranks of the alternatives and not on any other physical ... -
Throughput matching algorithm and stochastic models for analysis of open and closed manufacturing systems
(SSRN, 2015)Order release policies such as card-controlled CONWIP policy aim at improving system responsiveness and minimizing system-wide inventory levels. It is not clear if order release policies (without card control) can be equally ... -
Throughput matching algorithm and stochastic models for analysis of open and closed manufacturing systems
(SSRN, 2016-02)Order release policies such as card-controlled CONWIP policy aim at improving system responsiveness and minimizing system-wide inventory levels. It is not clear if order release policies (without card control) can be equally ... -
Time resolution of the St. Petersburg paradox: a rebuttal
(2013-11-26)eters (2011) claims to provide a resolution of the three century old St Petersburg paradox by using time averages and thereby avoiding the use of utility theory completely. Peters also claims to have found an error in ... -
Time series analysis of private health care expenditures and GDP: co-integration results with structural breaks
(2010-04-06)This paper analyses the time-series behaviour of private health expenditure and GDP to understand whether there is long-term equilibrium relationship between these two variables and estimate income elasticity of private ... -
Tobacco industry in India: constraints for development
(2010-03-28)India is the third largest producer of tobacco in the world after China and USA. Though it occupies a mere 0.25 per cent of the cropped area in the country, it contributed Rs. 507 crores to the foreign exchange earnings ... -
Toilets and Trains
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2008)Indian Railways (IR) is a large transport organization running 8700 trains, reaching 7000 stations and handling about 1.6 crore passengers per day. IR runs several long distant trains, some of which involve journeys upto ... -
‘Too central to fail’ firms in bi-layered financial networks: evidence of linkages from the US corporate bond and stock markets
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2020-06-02)Complex mutual dependencies of asset returns are recognized to contribute to systemic risk. A growing literature emphasizes that identification of vulnerable firms is a fundamental requirement for mitigating systemic risk ... -
Too much care? private health care sector and surgical interventions during childbirth in India
(IIM Ahmedabad, 2018-11)This paper evaluates the role of the private sector in performing one of the common surgical interventions, i.e. caesarean sections during childbirth in India. We use the latest round of National Family Health Survey to ... -
Top cycle and uncovered solutions for abstract games: axiomatic characterizations
(2010-01-18)In this paper we consider binary relations which are reflexive and complete. Such binary relations are referred to in the literature as abstract games. Given an abstract game a (game)solution is a function which associates ... -
Top management stresses: suggested HRD interventions
(2010-03-28)One of the main areas in which HRD interventions are needed relate to organizational role stresses.An attempt has been made in this paper to examine the stresses of the top management executives and to suggest HRD interventions ... -
Total performance measurement system for public enterprises: a framework
(2010-03-13)In this paper the need for a system for total performance measurement in public enterprises is highlighted. By total performance measurement system is meant a uniform system of measuring and reporting the economic and ...