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Weighted-additive versus reference-dependent models of bundle evaluation: evidence from discount framing on product bundles with surcharges
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2014)Attractiveness of product bundles largely depends on how prices are framed. There is considerable disagreement among two contemporary models that posit how product bundles with discounts are evaluated. According to the ... -
The welfare consequences of patent protection, pricing and licensing in the Indian oral anti-diabetic market
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What determines performance gap index of healthcare in Gujarat?
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2014)Health performance of Gujarat viewed in terms of the Human Development Index (HDI) portrays it as a medium performer in the country. However, the index of health component for Gujarat is found to be positively contributing ... -
What does matched bank-firm data tell us about the moral hazard in lending decisions of state-owned banks in india?
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2017-11-11)In this study, we examine quality of the lending decisions of public sector banks (PSBs) in India with a novel dataset which allows the identification of both the banks by the ownership types and their borrowers. We use a ... -
What Drives the Shareholer Value?
(2009-07-25)In the strategy literature a lot of emphasis is placed on growth as a dominant business strategy. Is growth always desirable? The finance literature, on the other hand, focuses more on economic profitability and value. ... -
What Emotional Labor is: A Review of Literature
(2009-08-13)The dominance of customer over the production/service employee, and as a result of this, increasing use of emotional labor in the workplace furthers the need to understand what emotional labor is. In this regard, the present ... -
What employers value in the MBAs they recruit: rebalancing the management education curriculum
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2014)This paper seeks to answer the question, “In the Indian context, what insights can employers offer on the knowing, doing and being dimensions of the formation of an MBA graduate, that management education institutes can ... -
What makes a data-story work? a framework for effective visual data narratives
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2014)Stories have been recognized for their power of communication & persuasion for centuries and we need to operate at that intersection of data, visual and stories to fully harness the power of data. Online journalism has ... -
What's keeping the apples way? addressing the market integration issue
(2010-04-03)Apples have been grown in India for a century. At present apple production exceeds 1.4 million tonnes a year. Still, there are wide variations in the apple prices across the country. We test the price data for market ... -
Wheat economy of India: a study of the growth, development and international trade prospects
(2010-01-18)India is now the second largest producer of wheat in the world even though it is only the seventh largest in land area. It produces about 70 million tons of wheat per year or about 12 per cent of the world production. Being ... -
Wheat Marketing and its Efficiency in India
(2009-08-08)The study examines the marketing of wheat in India, focusing on the private marketing system, the marketing efficiency and quality. Wheat is now a major food staple in India, crucial to India’s food economy and security. ... -
When AAA means B: the state of credit rating in India
(2010-03-29)As in many other countries, India's five year old credit rating industry has grown rapidly amidst persistent doubts about the quality of the rating service. This paper evaluates the ratings given by India's leading credit ... -
When are rewards bad for creativity? examining the role of leadership and integrated extrinsic motivation
(Indian Institute of Management , Ahmedabad, 2014)The relationship between common creativity antecedents and creative performance is seldom clarified and the assertion that employee attitudinal and work environment factors spur creative performance has rarely been tested. ... -
When Culture Governs Business Practice…. A Look at Indian Diamond Cutting and Polishing Industry
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2015)In absence of the well-defined strategy, structure and processes in informal firms in emerging markets, it is the intangible aspect of organizing, specifically, the organizational culture that governs business practices. ... -
When does the equal income lindahl equilibrium solotion satisfy resource Monotonicity
(2010-03-23)In this paper we show that the Equal Income Lindahl Equilibrium solution Function satisfies resource monotonicity when preferences are quasi-linear and there is a constant returns to scale technology converting private ... -
When literacy campaigns gave birth to a women movement: the case of jago bahana in dumka (Bihar, India)
(2009-12-16)Total and Post Literacy Campaigns have launched incidental processes of women s empowerment in almost every district that witnessed this uniquely Indian innovation. However, these processes have generally tended to fade ... -
Where utility functions do not exist: A note on lexicographic orders
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 1989-08-01)There seems to be some amount of confusion in the finance text books regarding the conditions under which an individual's preferences can be represented by a utility function. Fama and Miller, for example, assert that two ... -
Whether Cross-Listing, Stock-speci c and Market-wide Calendar Events impact Intraday Volatility Dynamics? Evidence from the Indian Stock Market using High-frequency Data
(2013-11-25)Using high-frequency stock price data, we investigate the e ect of various stock- speci c and market-wide events on intraday volatility dynamics in the Indian market. Modeling intraday volatility dynamics using FFF ... -
Who Participates in Higher Education in India? Rethinking the Role of Affirmative Action
(2011-05-26)This paper explores how socio-economic, especially socio-religious affiliations, and demographic characteristics of individuals influence participation in higher education (HE). It argues that appropriate measures of ...