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Resource mobilisation strategies for financing of transport infrastructure and services
(2010-03-27)Transport infrastructure development in India has been slow and unsatisfactory due to the excessive dependence on budgetary support from the State and due to the dominance of state controlled enterprises. Future investment ... -
Resource monotonicity of bargaining solutions
(2010-07-13)In this paper we establish that main solutions to bargaining problems display a resource monoticity property in bilateral monopoly situations when preferences exhibit consumption externalities. Suitable assumptions are ... -
Resourcefulness: a proximal conceptualisation of entrepreneurial behaviour
(2010-01-18)This paper highlights the confusions surrounding prevailing conceptualizations of entrepreneur/entrepreneurship that have limited our understanding and predictability of the phenomenon. An alternative conceptualisation ... -
Response to increasing competition by business organizations in India: voluntary retirement schemes and their outcome
(2010-01-16)Companies in India have responded to the challenges of globalization in various ways. One of the strategies to survive in the market was to reduce the cost by reduction in the number of employees with the help of Voluntary ... -
Restricted Expansion Independence for Choice Problems
(2010-03-27)In this paper we propose restricted expansion independence as a criterion which may be satisfied by desirable choice functions and axiomatically characterize the proportional solution by using this criterion. We also show ... -
Restrictive trade practices in India, 1969 -91: experience of control and agenda for further work
(2010-07-27)This paper purports to apprise principally the experience of control of Restrictive Trade Practices (RTP) in India by the Monopolies and Restrictive Trade Practices (MRTP) Commission under the MRTP Act, 1969. This experience ... -
Restructuring Gujarat Electricity Board: outline of a strategy and proposal for action
(2010-01-16)This note argues that the GEB needs to be restructured urgently. The principal challenge is really to overcome that major agency problem that results in leakage of enormous revenue. Plugging the leakages alone would make ... -
Restructuring public systems through administrative innovations: will civil service respond
(2010-03-24)When the role of the state is being redefined in the wake of recent economic crisis, a discussion on making public systems and enterprises more responsive to social concerns may be quite appropriate. But that was not the ... -
Restructuring rural financial institutions
(2010-04-08)This paper first identifies major proposals being considered now for restructuring rural financial institutions (RFIs). It then discusses main reasons which may have prompted these proposals. These are (1) inefficiencies ... -
Retail investor- a lost species
(2009-12-14)Everybody in India seems to be looking for the retail investor to come back to the market. He is badly needed because he is the major (rather only) source of providing risk capital. Portfolio managers (including FFIs) only ... -
Retail investors and the budget 1999: an agenda
(2009-12-12)With the advent of SEBI, the regulatory philosophy has changed from merit (administered) to disclosure (market based). Since retail investors do not have expertise and resources to fully understand the disclosed information, ... -
Retail sales data: the hidden treasure
(2010-01-18)Increasingly, retail outlets; be it in the large organized sector or unorganized sector, have started computerizing their point of sale (POS) transactions. This opens up opportunities for using the information towards ... -
Rethinking policy options for watershed management by local communities: combining equity efficiency and ecological - economic viability
(2010-04-08)The policy environment for management of land-use in India has been quite mud-died. Part of the reason is lack of accountability among senior level public administrators, policy planners and various constituents of the ... -
Rethinking the Priorities for Indian Agricultural Research, Institutions and Policy: Learning from the Grassroots
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2009)Sometimes having succeeded in a mission, we fail because we tend to persist with the same strategy even when times have changed. The success, thus, becomes the reason for failure. Indian agriculture research has been an ... -
Return, risk and optimum portfolio of stocks in Malaysia
(2010-04-17)The paper computes the return and risk (systematic and unsystematic) from investments in stocks, determines the optimum portfolio of stocks, and develops a fundamental model for beta of stocks, using data of the Malaysian ... -
Revamping stock exchange operations some suggestions
(2010-07-27)Stock Exchanges have been playing a major role in mobilizing private savings for industrial growth. With increasing participation of general public in securities association of themselves to regulate trading and to protect ... -
Revealed preference and independence of irrelevant alternatives: a note
(2010-07-27)Our objective here is to establish an equivalence between the IIA axiom which plays a significant role in axiomatic models of bargaining, and a generalization of WARP which plays a significant role in demand analysis. -
Revealed preference and utilitarianism in multiattribute choice problems
(2010-04-05)In this paper we have investigated two related issues: (a) representability of a choice function: (b) characterization of a representable choice functions, namely the utilitarian choice function. Probably the most well-known ... -
Revealed preference under rationing
(2010-03-31)In this paper we extend the weak and strong axioms of revealed preference to markets with rationing and establish that if the observed demand behaviour in such markets satisfy the strong axiom of revealed preference, then ... -
The revelation principle for arbitration games
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 1990-03-01)In this paper we prove the validity of the revelation principle for arbitration games and also establish that a large class of game forms can be represented as a Bayesian statistician. This adds force and appeal to the ...