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Are investors ethics agnostic?
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2015)
In this paper we ask if the perception investors have regarding ethical nature of the management per se influences their action. In order to check for rent seeking behaviour that could arise when there is negative perception ...
Endowment effects in bundles
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2014)
Behavioral experiments conducted so far to establish existence of endowment effect as propounded by prospect theorists typically endow subjects with a single good. In this paper we depart from this setting by giving subjects ...
Is 2% the Solution? Experimental Evidence on the New CSR Rule in India
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2015)
The Indian government became the first regulator in the world to mandate a minimum CSR spending on certain specified social welfare activities. Prior research in psychology indicates that individuals tend to focus heavily ...
Entry of Profit-Motivated Microfinance Institutions and Borrower Welfare
(2013-11-22)
In this paper, we model welfare implications of entry of commercial micro nance institutions
(MFIs). We initially characterize equilibrium with a sole fund-constrained benevolent credit
institution followed by equilibrium ...
Competition Law and the Pharmaceutical Sector in India
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2015)
The Indian pharmaceutical industry is one of the largest in the world both in terms of volume and value. Given its critical importance, the sector has been subject to a series of regulatory interventions, which have altered ...
Does Competition in the Microfinance Industry Necessarily Mean Over-borrowing?
(2013-11-21)
In this paper we test the hypothesis of whether the presence of increasing number of
microfinance institutions leads to over-borrowing. Some recent theoretical literature
suggests that, in a joint liability setting, ...
Brand Effect and Price Discrimination in the Video Rental Industry
(2013-11-21)
What is the effect of competition on prices in a market where the product is offered
at different quality levels? Would the increase in competition reduce the price of
high quality good more than the low quality good? ...