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Incubation in India – A multilevel analysis
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2020-03-05)This chapter undertakes a multi-level analysis of incubation in India with an objective to assess the landscape of incubation, the role and impact of incubators on startups, and understand challenges faced both by incubators ... -
Development of utility function for vehicle insurance: Comparison of logarithmic goal programming method and conjoint analysis method
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2020-02-25)The increase in competition among the vehicle insurance sectors has increased the number of policy options available in the market. This study focuses on the development of a utility function for these policies that will ... -
A mathematical programming approach with revenue management in home loan pricing
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2020-02-25)We formulate a dynamic pricing model for home loans for a bank. The model optimizes the net present value of money available at the end of 15 years subject to pricing limits and cash flows. We collected the real data from ... -
Alternate solution approaches for competitive hub location problems
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2019)In this paper, we study the hub location problem of an entrant airline that tries to maximize its share in a market with already existing competing players. The problem is modelled as a nonlinear integer program, which ... -
Competitive hub location problems: model and solution approaches
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2019)In this paper, we study the hub location problem of an entrant airline that tries to maximize its market share, in a market with already existing competing players. The routes open for use can be either of multiple ... -
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 ... -
‘Allottees’ as financial creditors: pushing the conceptual limits of the Indian insolvency regime
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2019)The Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016 (IBC) was amended in June 2018 to include amounts raised from an allottee (any person to whom an apartment or plot in a real estate project has been allotted or sold) in a real ... -
Ripples on financial networks
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2019)In the financial markets, asset returns exhibit collective dynamics masking individual impacts on the rest of the market. Hence, it is still an open problem to identify how shocks originating from one particular asset ... -
Buy, sell or hold: entity-aware classification of business news
(2019-04-30)Financial sector is expected to be at the forefront of the adoption of machine learning methods, driven by the superior performance of the data-driven approaches over traditional modelling approaches. There has been a ... -
Between Aastha and Zee: mystery of the missing market for a weather channel
(2019-06-03)Until a few decades ago, Doordarshan was the only channel which would broadcast TV programmes in black-&-white and that too for a few hours. It was a pure public good then, offered free of cost by the government. Today, ... -
A computational algorithm to analyze unobserved sequential reactions of the central banks: inference on complex lead-lag relationship in evolution of policy stances
(2019-06-03)Central banks of different countries are some of the largest economic players at the global scale and they are not static in their monetary policy stances. They change their policies substantially over time in response to ... -
Real estate and infrastructure resolution
(2019-09-19)We propose a mechanism that uses the financial markets to mobilize the resources of a large population of investors, to revive the impaired assets in the real sector in India today. This should also allow the economy to ... -
Steering the macroeconomy with a broken compass and stuck rudder?
(2019-09-19)In this paper we bring together the findings of Subramanian, A. (2019) and Morris and Kumari (2019), and others to claim that the problems with the new national income series are real and need to be addressed. The CPI11-12 ... -
Right of recourse claims based on latent defects in the nuclear energy sector in India: brace yourself for factintensive disputes
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2019-05-01)This working paper is focused on trying to interpret the meaning of “latent defects” and analysing how a case were to unfold if an operator of nuclear installation were to exercise its right of recourse against a supplier ... -
Does it work? information technology (IT) in welfare in India
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2019-04-09)The use of information technology (IT) in public administration is viewed as a significant tool for enhancing transparency and accountability. In popular rhetoric, these continue to be heralded as necessary and sufficient ... -
Benders decomposition for capacitated multi-period maximal covering location problem with server uncertainty
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2019)Primary Health Centers (PHCs), which are single doctor clinics and vital to health care in rural areas of developing countries, often remain inoperative due to shortage of doctors. When doctors become available, the health ... -
Financing Infrastructure in India: issues and the way forward
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2019)Optimal approaches that recognize the specific kind of market failure/s, in the policy and design of infrastructure, greatly reduce the financing costs and improves the ability of to attract finance in the private provisioning ... -
Does GST in India hurt producing regions? A new estimate of the tax base under GST of select states
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2019)GST as introduced in India being a destination based tax, does not encourage regions to vigorously promote manufacturing and tradable services industries. Being in the midst of its economic transformation, and given the ... -
Whose Empowerment? national digital infrastructure and India’s healthcare sector
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2019)Patient-centric digital infrastructure can potentially enhance the efficiency of the healthcare systems. Even in developed nations evidence suggests low adoption rates for such infrastructure. The Indian government, ... -
Overestimation in the Growth Rates of National Income in Recent Years? – an analyses based on extending GDP04-05 through other indicators of output
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2019)Quarterly indices of output like those of Industrial Production, other measures of production like net sales, exports, of companies for which data is available, besides proxies like credit to the sector, and indices of ...