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A negotiation procedure converging to the Nash bargaining solution
(2010-03-29)In this paper we propose a negotiation procedure for the bilateral monopoly problem, solutions of which converge to the Nash bargaining solution. In this paper we have established a convergent negotiation procedure for the ... -
Housing conditions and housing shortage in India - an interstate analysis
(2010-03-29)This paper makes an attempt to examine the existing housing conditions and quantify the extent of housing shortage in Indian economy. The main objectives of the study are: (a) to examine the growth and composition of housing ... -
Universities and the horizons of the future
(2010-03-29)Ours is a time of fundamental changes. Changes in our economy and politics, revolutionary manifestation of new technologies and the whole host of contemporary forces are shattering our taken-for-granted assumptions about ... -
Women in management in India
(2010-03-29)This paper is in extension of the paper "Career paths of women in management in India". W.P. No. 884 by the same author. In this paper, the origin and the gradual movement of women's role and identity patterns are discussed ... -
Wage determination for self-employed persons: some methodological explorations
(2010-03-29)The methodological problems of determining a fair economic return ("wages") for services rendered by a group of self employed workers have been discussed. Four alternatives have been considered and their relative merits explored. -
Role orientation and role performance of Indian managers
(2010-03-29)The paper explores the tend and differential movement of the managers from the processes of social identity to the emergence of work identity in Indian organizations. The focus of the Social Identity is maintenance of ... -
Transition in Indian society part II constituents of technological industrial society
(2010-03-29)This paper explores the constituents of the technological industrial society. It historically reviews the emergence of new societal maps through Renaissance to second world war. It then crystallizes the constituents of the ... -
A compromise solution for claims problems
(2010-03-29)The purpose of this paper is to axiomatically characterize a compromise solution for claims problems which satisfies invariance under affine utility transformations. The more well known solutions for claims problems do not ... -
Cutting plane based methods for integer programs
(2010-03-29)A wide variety of integer programs belong to the class of hard combinational optimization problems, and there is no known algorithm to date to solve them in polynomial time. Examples are the multi item lot sizing problems, ... -
State income inequalities and interstate variations in the Growth of real capital stock in India
(2010-03-29)This paper makes an attempt to analyse the behaviour of regional income inequalities and capital inequalities in India. It also seeks to examine the relationship between the trend in regional income inequality and regional ... -
Transition in Indian society Part I the emotive maps from the agrarian ethos
(2010-03-29)This paper examines the transition occurring in Indian society. For centuries Indian culture, society and its social design is anchored in the traditional agrarian ethos. In the context of this ethos the paper discusses ... -
Monotonocity of compromise solutions with respect to the claims point
(2010-03-28)In this paper we establish that a family of well-known normed compromise solutions for two-person claims problems respond appropriately to changes in the claims point. The fact that these solutions satisfy what may be ... -
Perfect least squares estimator
(2010-03-28)This paper makes an attempt to analyse the behaviour of regional income inequalities and capital inequalities in India. It also seeks to examine the relationship between the trend in regional income inequality and regional ... -
Metric rationalization of bargaining solutions and respect for unanimity
(2010-03-28)In this paper we represent bargaining solutions by means of a metric which is defined on games, whereby the solutions are precisely those payoffs which are closest to being unanimously highest. Subsequently we study the ... -
Lagged variable models and their estimation
(2010-03-28)The paper discusses the reasons for hypothesizing various kinds of lagged variable models, their characteristics and the appropriate methods for estimating them. In particular, the distributed lag model, the partial ... -
Modelling of industrial sector in macro econometric models of Indian economy
(2010-03-28)Modelling of the Industrial Sectors has been ad-hoc in macro models. The proportion of industrial sector out in nation output has steadily increased but modellers have ignored the link between industrial sector output and ... -
Critical appraisal of past strategies for rural development in India
(2010-03-28)The paper examines the past experiments in RD in India, thinking from 1952 onwards, the three models available to India during the First Plan, the Community Development (CD) design, and administrative and economic strategies ... -
Options trading: a primer and a proposal
(2010-03-28)The option industry has witnessed explosive growth since 1973 when the first organized option exchange opened in Chicago. Moreover, this growth is continuing into the 1990s as entirely new types of options are created and ... -
gTime, gDate and a gCalender
(2010-03-28)The emergence of a cyberconnected Global Village demonstrates the need for a universal time for global events. A professor at the Indian Institute of Management in Ahmedabad argues that we need to delink the measurement ... -
Empirical investigation into the effects of country of origin on consumer product preference in India
(2010-03-28)The objective of this paper is to understand the effect of country of origin on consumers in India in their preference for products. The paper looks at two distinct effects of country of origin ~ foreign brands made in ...