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Risk Management Lessons from the Global Financial Crisis for Derivative Exchanges
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2009)
During the global financial turmoil of 2007 and 2008, no major derivative clearing house in the world encountered distress while many banks were pushed to the brink and beyond. An important reason for this is that derivative ...
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 ...
Development of Utility Function for Life Insurance Buyers in the Indian Market
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2008)
Insurance as a financial instrument has been used for a long time. The dramatic increase in competition within the insurance sector (in terms of providers coupled with awareness for the need for insurance) has resulted in ...
Grading Initial Public Offerings (IPOs) in India’s Capital Markets A Globally Unique Concept
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2008)
IPO grading assesses the fundamentals of the Initial Public Offerings (IPOs) and is reflected on a five-point point scale (1-5) with a higher score indicating stronger fundamentals of the IPO issuing firm. SEBI (India ...
Regional Sources of Growth Acceleration in India
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2009)
Gujarat, West Bengal, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Kerala, and Tamil Nadu were the major contributors to growth acceleration in India after 1991-92. Although regional disparity may increase temporarily, causality test provides ...
Computer simulation of hospital systems
(2009-12-14)
Hospital Management is an area of considerable importance to governments health authorities and the general population. Governments all over the world are concerned about providing quality health care to their people. The ...
Determinants of Small-Scale Farmer inclusion in Emerging Modern Agrifood Markets: A Study of the Dairy Industry in India
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2009)
In response to structural transformations taking place in the Indian dairy sector mainly in processing segment this paper examines determinants of market channel choices of milk producers based on a survey of 390 farm ...
Quantifying the Impact of Chikungunya and Dengue on Tourism Revenues
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2009)
Background
Health economists have traditionally quantified the burden of vector-borne diseases (such as chikungunya and dengue) as the sum of the cost of illness and the cost of intervention programmes. The objective of ...
Reproductive health camps: as innovative approach to integrating reproductive health intervention in primary health care
(2009-12-12)
The International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) held at Cairo in 1994 recommended a comprehensive Reproductive Health (RH) programme to replace domographically oriented Family Planning (FP) programmes. ...
Review of the safe motherhood programme in India in the context of reproductive health: achievements, issues and challenges
(2009-12-12)
Following the Safe Motherhood Conference in Nairobi in 1987, there has been a renewed focus on the problem of maternal mortality and safe motherhood. Global advocacy led to the starting of new initiatives on safe motherhood ...