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Corporate takeovers in Malaysia: Discriminant analysis for bidder and target firms
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 1998-11-01)The paper looks into 144 non-financial firms in Malaysia for period 1980-1993, which includes bidders, targets, control bidders and control targets. A set of five economic/financial variables has been identified to ... -
Correlated equilibria under bounded and unbounded rationality
(2010-03-19)In this paper we establish an isomorphism between the set of correlated equilibria of a game on the one hand and the set of ordered pairs of coordination mechanisms and equilibrium decision rules for the same game on the ... -
Correlation functions in reliability theory
(2010-03-13)The point process induced by the stochastic behaviour of a two-unit warm standby redundant repairable system is studied. Expressions for the product densities of the events corresponding to the entry into each of the states ... -
Cost and benefit of disinflation policy in India
(Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2014)Current monetary policy stance is based on assertions that there is no trade-off between inflation and growth and that disinflation will result in more growth. Present study examines recent empirical evidence on India for ... -
Cost benefit analysis of malaria control and eradication programme in India
(2010-03-18)This paper analysed the malaria control and eradication activities in India from 1953-54 to 1976-77. The total cost of the disease to the nation with the control and eradication programme and what it would have been if the ... -
Cost of conservation of agrobiodiversity
(2010-01-16)The cost of conservation of germplasm stored in gene banks i.e., ex-situ collections has been studied in other parts of the world to estimate direct and indirect contributions by various actors involved in conservation. ... -
Cost of quality their determination and relationships
(2010-03-22)With a renewed emphasis on Management of Quality, the question of collecting and quantifying Cost of Quality (COQ) has assumed special significance. It is realized that organizations intending to launch quality improvement ... -
Costs of operations in agricultural financing by formal agencies
(2010-03-12)The purpose of this paper is to first briefly discuss the main elements of costs in agricultural finance operations of formal agencies. Secondly, the sources of high administrative costs are identified. And finally a ... -
Cotton in India: analysis of differing performance
(2010-04-01)This paper attempts to investigate the performance of Indian cotton sector and impact of economic and biological factors on acreage and yield of cotton in the major cotton growing states of the country using time series ... -
COVID-19 and period products usage among menstruating women in urban and rural India
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2021-11-03)This paper estimates the impact of the lockdown across various zones on the period product consumption for menstruating women in India. We have used the national-level panel data from the CMIE’s Consumer Pyramids Household ... -
Covid-19 crisis, pandemic resilience and linkages to land: An exposition
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2020-05-08)For a COVID-19 like pandemic, the Achilles heel is an unsuspecting villain – rapid and global land use changes. The way governments, businesses and communities see, relate to and use land, not only influences the outbreak ... -
Creating demand systems in drought prone regions: random thoughts and personal field notes from a group action - research project - journal II
(2010-03-14)Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad had initiated an action-research project in three districts with similar ecological and social stress but dissimilar administrative system. A group of faculty members from Centre ... -
Creation of a Single National ID: Challenges & Opportunities for India
(2009-07-25)A National ID for all citizens and residents of India has long being considered a critical necessity, albeit the related projects have been in pilot mode for the past several years and no distinct road ahead seems to be ... -
Creative approaches in advertising in India in the early nineties what criteria
(2010-03-25)The paper developed while exploring the anomaly that the best adjusted creatives are not necessarily the best performers, despite uniformity in other marketing inputs. It examines (1) current trends in creative approaches, ... -
Creative restructuring
(2010-01-18)In the context of liberalization of globalization of economy, the changes required in the functioning of corporates need to be vast. Corporate restructuring has become an important means for achieving such changes in India ... -
Credit Arrangements for Drought Prone Regions: Policy Prescriptions and planners Reaction
(2012-09-27)IIM-A Collaboration with NABARD and Swiss Development cooperation conducted a field study to identify policy option for rural credit in drought prone regions. A joint monitoring team for field study comprising of professionals ... -
Credit policy for small and marginal farmers - a second look
(2010-03-13)The National Commission on Agriculture has advocated that the new agricultural credit policy must satisfy that all activities financed under its registration. -
Crew scheduling in Indian railways: a case study of Vadodara division passenger train crews
(2010-03-14)In this paper we discuss the crew scheduling problem in Indian Railways and propose a methodology to minimize crew requirements. In Particular, we deal with the scheduling of passenger train crews in Vadodara Division of ... -
CRISIL Rating: When does AAA mean B?
(2010-03-22)In this paper an attempt is made to assess the quality of credit rating function being performed by CRISIL, hitherto the sole credit rating agency in India. The paper attempts to answer, two important questions, namely: ...