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Revitalizing the state: 6. the performance of the Indian state
(2010-04-03)The performance of a state depends upon how effectively it copes with its crisis points. These crisis points can arise because of arbitrariness, excessive bureaucratizaiton, insufficient democratization, insufficient ... -
Revitalizing the state: 7. options for India
(2010-04-03)Successful experiments in governance the world over suggest a number of options for revitalizing the Indian state. Several options are first considered for revamping the political system. These include options for achieving ... -
Reviving Gujarat State Road Transport Corporation: An Aengda for Action
(2009-08-22)In this article, we examine in detail the reasons related to the declining operating and financial performance of Gujarat State Road Transport Corporation (GSRTC). The contribution of various environmental and governance ... -
Rewarding creativity for conserving diversity in third world: can IPR regime serve the needs of contemporary and traditional knowledge experts and communities in third world
(2010-04-08)Regions of high biodiversity are often inhabited by the poorest people. The irony is that many of local healers and other herbal experts do not even charge for their services to the community. They conserve biological ... -
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 ... -
Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Ordinance 2014: A Process Perspective
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2015)This paper captures the policy processes leading to the Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement (RFCTLARR) Ordinance, 2014. It maps the role and the influence of the ... -
Right to research and copyright law: from photocopying to shadow libraries
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2021-09-03)Academic research and publishing are facing a crisis. The importance of access to academic literature in an interconnected world, the ever-growing cost of subscriptions to this literature, different revenue models of ... -
The right to resource: Peasant knowledge, protocol of its 'extraction' and ethics of collaboration in extractions
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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 ... -
Rise of quick commerce in India: business models And infrastructure requirements
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2023-03)The democratisation of mobile internet, increase in e-commerce penetration and omnichannel distribution has led to an expansion of the e-commerce industry. The COVID19 pandemic and the subsequent control measures like ... -
Risk information - normal markets and the COVID-19 pandemic period
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2022-10-06)The paper investigates how the market infers changes in the firm-level discount rate (risk information) in normal and turbulent times. The study focuses on two key sources of risk information, earnings announcements of ... -
Risk Management Lessons from the Global Financial Crisis for Derivative Exchanges
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2009)During the global financial turmoil of 2007 and 2008, no major derivative clearing house in the world encountered distress while many banks were pushed to the brink and beyond. An important reason for this is that derivative ... -
Risk Mitigation in Indian Film Industry: A Concept Note
(2009-09-01)The motion pictures business in India has certain unique aspects which pose challenges in front of those whose fortunes are linked with the industry. The shelf life of a movie is short whereas the cost of producing and ... -
Risk sensitivity in bargaining and a monotone to nash's bargaining problem
(2010-07-27)In this paper we show that for a new solution to Nash's bargaining problem, proposed by Lahiri (1988) ("Monotonicity with Respect to the Disagreement Point and a New Solution to Nash's Bargaining Problem", IIM, Ahmedabad, ... -
Risk, Ambiguity – Gains, Losses
(2009-07-25)We use a multiple price list (MPL) method to elicit attitudes to risky and ambiguous prospects. In particular we wish to investigate if there are differences in agent behaviour under uncertainty over gain amounts vis a vis ... -
Risk-sensitive Basel regulations and firms' access to credit: direct and indirect effects
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2018)This paper examines the impact of risk-sensitive Basel regulations on access to debt and cost of debt for firms with varying characteristics around the world, and investigates how firms cope through reliance on alternative ... -
Roadmap for Educational Innovation in Institutions of Higher Learning: Towards Inter-University Centre for Innovation
(2013-11-26)It is ironic that while searching for models that promote excellence, we have not made the outstanding teachers and researchers the hub of future reforms. The fact that in any field of social investigation or higher ... -
Roadmap for logistics excellence: need to break the unholy equilibrium
(2010-01-16)This white paper attempts to provide a roadmap for India to move towards logistics excellence. Apart from raising issues that are currently relevant, it also draws from the issues that were raised in the previous three ... -
Robust design but indifferent manner of use: family bio-gas plants in Gujarat
(2010-04-06)Potential for family size biogas plants is estimated to be about 12 lakh in Gujarat. Nearly 2 lakh units have been actually installed by 1993. Deenbandhu model appears to be the most popular. In this paper we present an ... -
ROC Curve Analysis for Randomly Selected Patients
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2015)Receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curves and the area under the curve (AUC) are widely used in medical studies to examine the effectiveness of markers in diagnosing diseases. In most of the existing literature for ...