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Online retailing paired with kirana – a formidable combination for emerging markets
(Indian Institute of Management , Ahmedabad, 2014)
The World Wide Web was launched in 1991 by Tim Berners Lee and shortly after that, in 1994, Pizza Hut delivered its first pizza after receiving an online order. Electronic commerce is one of the boons of internet and the ...
High frequency manipulation at futures Expiry: the case of cash settled Indian single stock futures
(Indian Institute of Management , Ahmedabad, 2014)
Futures markets are known to be vulnerable to manipulation, and despite the presence of a variety of mechanisms to prevent such manipulation, instances of market manipulation have been found in some of the largest and most ...
Sacrifice ratio and cost of inflation for the Indian economy
(Indian Institute of Managment, Ahmedabad, 2014)
Traditional concept of the Sacrifice Ratio measures the loss of potential output sustained by the society in the medium term to achieve reduction in the long-run inflation by one percentage point. This concept is critically ...
Urban – rural income differential in major states: contribution of structural factors
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2014)
In this paper, we have attempted to estimate the urban – rural income differential (URID) for 15 major states based on readily available data on GSDP by sectors, population and employment by sectors and urban – rural ...
Online promotions: exploring the emerging opportunity in Indian market
(Indian Institute of Management , Ahmedabad, 2014)
Online promotion has been employed by e-marketers to influence the shoppers during online shopping. In recent years, it has emerged as one of the promising tool in marketer’s arsenal to sway potential customers in Indian ...
Cost and benefit of disinflation policy in India
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2014)
Current monetary policy stance is based on assertions that there is no trade-off between inflation and growth and that disinflation will result in more growth. Present study examines recent empirical evidence on India for ...
Multi-period facility location problem with an uncertain number of servers
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2014)
We study the problem of allocating doctors to primary health centers. We model the prob- lem as a multi-period uncapacitated facility location problem under uncertainty. The problem is unconventional in that the uncertainty ...
Long term financing of infrastructure
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2014)
Infrastructure projects, given their long life, require long term financing. The main sources of long term financings are insurance and pension funds who seek long term investments with low credit risk. However, in India ...
Model risk in pricing path-dependent derivatives: an illustration
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2014)
Model selection and model uncertainty go hand-in-hand. However, while there is uncertainty associated with the selection of any model, the context is paramount. This study is an illustration of issues surrounding model ...
Governance and upgrading in export grape global production networks in India
(IIM Ahmedabad, 2013)
Global production networks (GPNs) are the norm in many export sectors of developing world
economies like India. High-value crops, including horticultural crops and produce, are seen as
candidates for exploiting global ...