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Factors influencing outcome expectations and self-efficacy in driving internet use in rural india
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2016-04-12)Past studies of individual Internet adoption and usage have been mostly empirical and in developed countries or in urban settings of developing countries. These have largely examined socio-economic factors such as age, ... -
A practical note on predictive analytics usage in marketing applications
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2016-05-05)Most Predictive Analytics discussions focus on methods that can be used for better quality prediction in a particular context. Realizing that the possibility of perfect prediction is a near impossibility, practitioners ... -
Small retailer’s merchandise decision making: A grounded theory approach
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2016-05-16)This study is focused on small retail stores of Jammu province of J&K and examines the relationship between retailer’s perceptions of the trading area and their assortment policy decisions and their reported performance ... -
Climate change in madhya pradesh: Indicators, impacts and adaptation
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2016-05-26)Climate variability and climate change pose an enormous pressure on population, infrastructure, livelihood, and socio-economic conditions. Evidences of climate change are already visible on many sectors such as agriculture, ... -
Impact of store format on shopping involvement
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2016-06-29)Store formats exist in three forms of convenience, variety and experience. Shopping involvement tends to change across these formats. This current study (a) establishes the role of store formats on shopping involvement, ... -
Impact of affirmative action in higher education for the other backward classes in India
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2016-07-18)This paper measures the impact of quota-based affirmative action in higher education (HE) in India for Other Backward Classes (OBC), implemented from 2008. Since the immediate impact would be felt by OBCs who were eligible ... -
Hub interdiction & hub protection problems: Model formulations & exact solution methods
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2016-10-25)In this paper, we present computationally effcient formulations for the hub interdiction and hub protection problems, which are bi-level and tri-level mixed integer linear programs, respec- tively. In the hub interdiction ... -
Global risk and demand for gold by central banks
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2017-01-30)This paper examines the influence of global risk on the holding of gold by central banks based on annual data for 100 countries during 1990-2015. We use a dynamic panel generalized method of moments (GMM) model to estimate ... -
Institutional quality and international differences in firm productivity
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2017-02-27)In this paper, we examine how firm-level productivity growth is dependent on a broad range of institutional quality measures at the country level. Using a sample of 3,446 firms in 58 advanced and emerging economics, we ... -
India's horticulture sector - A port- level analysis of onion export pricing
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2017-03-10)Extending the traditional model of agricultural pricing behaviour and market structure with the constructed commodity specific export weighted exchange rates, this paper analyses the exchange rate induced market power, ... -
Enabling a mobile cloud service: Data-sharing in ad-hoc device-to-device mobile networks
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2017-03-21)The objective of this work is to build a data-sharing application for an ad-hoc network of mobile devices, where users can exchange data/files among themselves without relying on traditional communication channels like ... -
Shiny alternative for finance in the classroom
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2017-03-31)Despite the popularity of open-source languages like R and Python in modern empirical research and the data-science industry, spreadsheet programs like Microsoft Excel remain the data analysis software of choice in much ... -
Travel time prediction for gps taxi data streams
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2017-03-31)The analysis of data streams offers a great opportunity for development of new methodologies and applications in the area of Intelligent Transportation Systems. In this paper, we propose a new incremental learning approach ... -
Real time location prediction with taxi - Gps data streams
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2018-07)The prediction of the destination location at the time of pickup is an important problem with potential for substantial impact on the efficiency of a GPS enabled taxi service. While this problem has been explored earlier ... -
Intra-industry trade and labour market adjustment: Indian manufacturing sector
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2017-04-05)The study investigates the role of trade, labor market regulations and institutions on labour adjustment costs. The study develops a linear dynamic panel model using quasi-maximum likelihood fixed effects estimator. Using ... -
Turning over a golden leaf? : Global liquidity and emerging market central banks’ demand for gold after the financial crisis
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2017-04-12)The quantity of gold reserves held by central banks in emerging markets and developing economies (EMDEs) has risen sharply following the global financial crisis in 2008. This paper examines factors driving holding of gold ... -
Vehicle routing at a food service marketplace
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2017-04-25)In this paper, we explore the case of an aggregator-cum-restaurant that also offers pickup and delivery services to third party restaurants registered with it. The aggregator must decide on its fleet size and the optimal ... -
Transitions in currency denomination structure as supply disruption and demand distortion: efficiency, effectiveness and bullwhip
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2017-05-23)Transition from one currency denomination structure to another is infrequent but not rare. Central Banks may adopt such transition for various reasons like prevention of counterfeiting or combating hyperinflation and may ... -
A study of the evolution of nature and narration of brands in an emerging market
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2017-05-23)Brands evolve over time as a result of factors that facilitate or force. Such changes could, firstly, be the result of changes in the operating environment, such as changes in either consumer-related aspects like consumer ... -
The horror of urban development in india – Identifying the real issues
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2017-06-30)The horror of India’s urban spaces cannot be understood without recognizing the core errors in planning and in the approach of infrastructural development. These stem mainly from the low FSI’s that are used, the lack of ...