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Marketplace options in an emerging economy local food marketing system: Producers' choices, choice determinants and requirements
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2018-01-12)
One of the important objectives of reforms in Indian agricultural marketing was to stimulate competition in the local food marketing system dominated by the state-regulated APMC marketplaces. This study was taken up to ...
Indian antecedents to modern economic thought
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2018-01-15)
The history of economic thought begins with salutations to Greek writings of Aristotle and Plato. While the fourth century BCE Greek writings may have been the fount of modern economic thought that emerged in Europe starting ...
E-commerce in oligopsonistic and relational markets: An empirical investigation of transaction costs in agricultural e-markets in India from farmers’ perspective
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2018-06-15)
Some important benefits of electronic marketplaces, especially in agriculture, include improved coordination, better and transparent price discovery, and reduced transaction costs. Agricultural markets in India have often ...
Does entrepreneurial logic impact funding evaluation of startups?
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2018-02-21)
From a neoclassical economics perspective, entrepreneurship involves rational decision-making and entrepreneurs engage in rational, goal-driven behavior. However, such a view is put to test in current, dynamic business ...
Leadership and management of public sector undertakings in an emerging economy
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2018-01-31)
Public Sector Undertakings (PSUs) contribute significantly to the growth and economic development of any country. This study explores the key managerial challenges faced by the leaders and managers of public sector ...
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 ...
Grapevine or Informed Selection: significance of quality attributes in India’s emerging wine market
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2018-03-30)
Indian wine market is in a nascent state as compared to its counterparts in Europe, America and Asia. However, with rapid growth in GDP and consequent changes in lifestyle, the absolute size of the market is growing rapidly. ...
Lender moral hazard in state-owned banks: evidence from an emerging economy
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2018-07-04)
We examine the credit risk-choices of the public sector banks (PSBs) in India with a novel dataset that is able to trace the borrowers to their banks. We determine the likelihood of the ownership type of the lender bank ...
Is the past still holding us back? a study on intergenerational education mobility in India
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2018-01-03)
This paper deals with intergenerational education mobility in India. We make use of IHDS-II (2011-12) and prepare a representative dataset that goes beyond co-resident pairs of son-father by utilizing a unique feature of ...
Alternate second order conic programming reformulations for hub location with capacity selection under demand uncertainty
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2018)
In this paper, we study the single allocation hub location problem with capacity
selection in the presence of congestion at hubs. Accounting for congestion at hubs leads
to a non-linear mixed integer program, for which ...