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Dismantling Fertilizer Subsidies in India: Some Issues and Concerns for Farm Sector Growth
(2013-11-21)While fertilizer subsidy has probably been one of the most hotly debated issues in the country over the past two decades but debate reached a new height following a recommendation by the Prime Minister's Economic Advisory ... -
Dispatch planning of finished steel: A case study in modeling and data analysis
(2010-03-22)A steel plant has to dispatch products to forty four stockyards from a range of over hundred stock keeping units. The railways, who transport the steel, would like the steel plant to move the steel in a rake load since it ... -
Dispersion in macroeconomic volatility between the core and periphery of the international trade network
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2015)At the country level, macroeconomic volatility tends to correlate with trade openness although the direction of correlation is not stable across samples. Here I consider trade networks as sum of all pairwise trade linkages ... -
Disputes and dispute resolution: the effect of union density on employee intention to quit-the Indian scenario
(2009-09-04)A review of the existing literature suggests that employees in unionized workplaces have significantly more voice mechanisms present than in non-unionized workplaces. In India, historically, the trade unions have played ... -
Disputes and dispute resolution: the effect of union density on employee intention to quite-the Indian scenario
(2009-12-12)In India, historically, the trade unions have played the role of an agent of social and economic changes, protecting and enhancing the interest of its member and trying so squeeze more and more out of managements through ... -
Distribution and development effects of tariff subsidy policies in small open dual economy
(2010-03-13)In this paper the effects of tariff cum subsidy policies in a small open dual economy with intersectoral migration are considered. The model used is an extended version of the mobile capital Harris-Todaro model of ... -
Distribution of Cross-Section of Price Changes and Measurement of Inflation
(2009-09-02)In this study we look at the statistical properties of components forming the Wholesale Price Index (WPI), the headline inflation index for the Indian economy. We find that not only is the distribution of price changes at ... -
Distributional impact of government expenditure a welfare indication approach
(2010-03-24)Existing approaches and empirical estimation of distributional impact of government expenditure so far have been heavily dependent on several restrictive assumptions which are questionable particularly for the developing ... -
Distributive bias of new food grain technologies and flow of credit
(2010-03-22)The paper develops a model for analyzing flow of rural credit between food grain and non-food grain sectors. It analysis the effect of alternative changes in income distribution arising out of technological changes in ... -
Distributive justice with externalities and public goods
(2010-03-22)We analyze in this paper the distribution of a fixed amount of perfectly divisible private goods among a fixed number of agents and with a certain portion of the private goods allocated for the creation of public goods. ... -
Diversity and inclusion at the workplace: a review of research and perspectives
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2015)In recent years, the discourse on diversity has seen a shift to that of inclusion. While there is a rich body of research in the area of diversity, inclusion has emerged as a fairly recent area of exploration and the varied ... -
Dividend behavior in Malaysia
(2010-03-31)The paper estimates the dividend behaviour model for Malaysia using the annual time series data for the period 1983 to 1992, and the cross-section data for the 23 selected firms representing various sectors of the economy. ... -
Dividend behaviour of Indian companies under monetary policy restrictions
(2010-04-05)In this study we examine the dividend behaviour of Indian companies. We use GMM estimator, which is the most suitable methodology in a dynamic setting. Our results show that the Indian firms have lower target ratios and ... -
Dividend decision: a study of managers perceptions
(2010-03-25)In finance literature several theoretical constructs have been proposed to explain the dividend policy of a company. Several empirical studies have been conducted to test these theories. Very few attempts have been made ... -
Dividend rate and variation in share prices: an exploration into their inter-relationship
(2010-03-14)Return and risk are the two acknowledged characteristics affecting investment decision of investors in securities market. The literature on the relationship between these two characteristics provides ample evidence about ... -
Do managers manipulate gross profits? role of product market competition
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2016-03)Gross profits being a part of the sustainable profits of the firm are monitored by investors and analysts. This study examines whether managers manipulate gross profits by misclassifying costs of goods sold as other operating ... -
Doctrinal conflict in foreign investment regulation in India: NTT Docomo vs. Tata Sons and the case for “Downside Protection”
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2021-02-01)The strategic importance of India as an investment destination for foreign investors is highlighted by ongoing tensions in the Indo-Pacific region, and the recognition that a strong economic relationship with India is in ... -
Does Competition in the Microfinance Industry Necessarily Mean Over-borrowing?
(2013-11-21)In this paper we test the hypothesis of whether the presence of increasing number of microfinance institutions leads to over-borrowing. Some recent theoretical literature suggests that, in a joint liability setting, ... -
Does entrepreneurial logic impact funding evaluation of startups?
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2018-02-21)From a neoclassical economics perspective, entrepreneurship involves rational decision-making and entrepreneurs engage in rational, goal-driven behavior. However, such a view is put to test in current, dynamic business ... -
Does futurology have a future in India?
(2010-07-27)A population growth rate of around 2 per cent per annum being the one certainty of India's future, predictions have varied between Malthusian nightmares and blissful utopias. The methods used for arriving at these conclusions ...