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    • Quantifying the Impact of Chikungunya and Dengue on Tourism Revenues 

      Mavalankar, Dileep; Puwar, Tapasvi I.; Murtola, Tiina M.; Vasan, S. S. (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2009)
      Background Health economists have traditionally quantified the burden of vector-borne diseases (such as chikungunya and dengue) as the sum of the cost of illness and the cost of intervention programmes. The objective of ...

    • Grading Initial Public Offerings (IPOs) in India’s Capital Markets A Globally Unique Concept 

      Poudyal, Sanjay (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2008)
      IPO grading assesses the fundamentals of the Initial Public Offerings (IPOs) and is reflected on a five-point point scale (1-5) with a higher score indicating stronger fundamentals of the IPO issuing firm. SEBI (India ...

    • Does Trade Make Asian Children Healthier? 

      Jani, Vishalkumar; Dholakia, Ravindra H. (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2015)
      This paper empirically examines the impact of globalization and international trade on the child health status of the Asian countries. In contrast to previous studies we have introduced the initial level of development and ...

    • Dynamic Pricing of Electricity: A Survey of Related Research 

      Dutta, Goutam; Mitra, Krishnendranath (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2015)
      In this paper, we survey 82 papers related to revenue management and dynamic pricing of electricity and lists future research avenues in this field. Dynamic pricing has the potential to modify electric load profiles by ...

    • Toilets and Trains 

      Raghuram, G. (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2008)
      Indian Railways (IR) is a large transport organization running 8700 trains, reaching 7000 stations and handling about 1.6 crore passengers per day. IR runs several long distant trains, some of which involve journeys upto ...

    • Innovations for Reviving Small-Scale Industries 

      Gupta, Anil K. (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2009)
      Given the economic distress worldwide, small and medium scale enterprises (MSME) have been hit hard. Large numbers of workers have been laid off because of depressed demand, piled up inventory, pending retrievables, and ...

    • If Technology is like Word, Institutions are like Grammar: Institutional Context of Technological Innovations and Knowledge Systems at Grassroots 

      Gupta, Anil K. (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2009)
      Many developing countries have taken interest in learning from the Honey Bee Network experience for replicating the model. In a UNESCO conference, the author was asked to identify the key steps that national governments ...

    • Groundwater Irrigation in India: Gains, Costs and Risks 

      Gandhi, Vasant P.; Namboodiri, N. V. (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2009)
      Groundwater has rapidly emerged to occupy a dominant place in India’s agriculture and food security in recent years. It has become the main source of growth in irrigated area over the past three decades, and now accounts ...

    • Development of Utility Function for Life Insurance Buyers in the Indian Market 

      Dutta, Goutam; Basu, Sankarshan; Jose, John (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2008)
      Insurance as a financial instrument has been used for a long time. The dramatic increase in competition within the insurance sector (in terms of providers coupled with awareness for the need for insurance) has resulted in ...

    • India’s air traffic system: network topologies, hierarchies and evolution 

      Huber, Hans (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2015)
      The paper examines multi-dimensional patterns of network characteristics for scheduled Indian airlines between 2006 and 2014. The well-known skewed traffic distribution which concentrates traffic around relatively few hub ...

    • A Quadratic Programming Formulation of the Equidistant Bi-directional Loop Layout Problem 

      Ghosh, Diptesh (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2015)
      A loop layout is a common layout used in flexible manufacturing. In such a layout, a set of stations or facilities are to be arranged in a closed loop so that the total cost of flow between each pair of facilities is ...

    • E-Retailing and the Consumer Protection Bill, 2015: Drawing from the European Union Consumer Directives 

      Pathak, Akhileshwar (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2015)
      E-retailing has exponentially grown in the past decade. Alongside, consumer grievances have also started surfacing. The Consumer Protection Bill, 2015 addresses this by giving the right to the consumer to cancel a consumer ...

    • Stochastic Lotka-Volterra equations: a model of lagged diffusion of technology in an interconnected world 

      Chakrabarti, Anindya (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2015)
      We present a model of technological evolution due to interaction between multiple countries and the resultant effects on the corresponding macro variables. The world consists of a set of economies where some countries are ...

    • Competition Law and the Pharmaceutical Sector in India 

      Mondal, Shamim S.; Pingali, Viswanath (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 ...

    • Climate change and India: adaptation GAP 

      Garg, Amit; Mishra, Vimal; Dholakia, Hem H. (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2015)
      Climate change is projected to have severe adverse impacts on India’s population, natural eco-systems, and socio-economic parameters. India’s vulnerability to climate change impacts is profound since around 650 million ...

    • The legal structure and framework of luxury goods market in India: competitive or restrictive growth? 

      Sinha, Piyush Kumar; Thomas, Sujo; Patel, Ritesh (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2015)
      It has been evident from our long human history that luxury has been present in one or other form of consumption practices and that the luxury goods have existed for ages, dating back to Roman times, where luxuries such ...

    • Multi-processor exact procedures for regular measures of the multi-mode RCPSP 

      Dayal, Madhukar; Verma, Sanjay (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2015)
      The multi-mode resource-constrained project scheduling problem (MM RCPSP) is an NP-hard problem representing a generalization of the well-studied RCPSP. Depth-first tree search approach by Sprecher & Drexl (1998) is the ...

    • Consumer Rights in the New Economy: Amending the Consumer Protection Act, 1986 

      Pathak, Akhileshwar (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2015)
      Liberalisation and globalisation of the India economy, inaugurated in 1990, ushered in a qualitatively different economy. In these decades, there has been expansion of goods and services; diversification in the means of ...

    • Are investors ethics agnostic? 

      Jaikumar, Saravana; Pingali, Viswanath; Virmani, Vineet (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 ...

    • Will you buy if others touch it? Evaluation of products touched by others during shopping 

      Abhishek (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2015)
      Research on multisensory nature of consumption has highlighted importance of smell, taste, and touch during product evaluation and subsequent purchase decisions. While sensory cues have a role to play in evaluation of ...