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Financial sector reform: institutional and technological imperatives
(2010-03-26)This paper takes the view that financial sector reform is not only a matter of jettisoning old regulations nor even merely a matter of prudential regulation accompanying structural deregulation; it is intimately bound up ... -
Financial Status of Rural Poor: A Study in Udaipur District
(2009-09-02)The paper discusses the findings of a primary survey carried out in one village in Udaipur District of Rajasthan. The objectives of the study were to understand the financial flows of the rural poor and to have an insight ... -
Financing Infrastructure in India: issues and the way forward
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2019)Optimal approaches that recognize the specific kind of market failure/s, in the policy and design of infrastructure, greatly reduce the financing costs and improves the ability of to attract finance in the private provisioning ... -
Financing issues in proposed HIV/AIDS intervention of providing anti-retroviral drugs to selected regions in India
(2010-03-31)The development of antiretroviral therapy has given a new hope for people living with acquired immuno deficiency syndrome. In the face of increased disease burden due to HIV the global and political commitment towards ... -
Financing marketing of agricultural inputs
(2010-07-27)This paper conceptualizes the need for stocking agricultural inputs to match supply with their demand. The stocks in turn have to be financed. Because of seasonality in demand the general credit limit extended by the banks ... -
Financing minor irrigation projects: A decision theoretic framework to tackle uncertainties
(2010-03-12)This paper aims at providing a decision theoretic framework to tackle the problem of undertainty in lending for minor irrigation schemes. The framework is illustration with the help of two examples using data for Mahsana ... -
Financing public enterprise investments in India: the case of central government enterprises
(2010-07-20)This paper provides a perspective on how Central Public Enterprises' plan investments are financed. It reveals that although budgetary support continues to be a major source of financing Central Public Enterprises' plan ... -
Finding reliable solutions in bi level optimization problems under uncertainties
(GECCO '16: Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference 2016, 2016-07)Bilevel optimization problems are referred to as having a nested inner optimization problem as a constraint to a outer optimization problem in the domain of mathematical programming. It is also known as Stackelberg problems ... -
Finite horizon inventory model: an operational framework
(2009-12-12)We paper present a simulation based decision support system to decide the inventory ordering policy in the context of a single commodity, multi pack, and finite horizon situation. The model addresses the decision choice ... -
Finland-India Business Prospects 2007-2017
(2009-08-13)Finland-India Economic Relations were researched for the first time in a study that analysed mutual trade and investment potential through the lens of revealed comparative advantage and identified profitably tradable goods ... -
Firm life cycle and real - activity based earnings management
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2015-12-15)We examine real-activity based earnings management, i.e., cuts in discretionary innovation/marketing spending and overproduction for meeting the earnings benchmark of avoiding losses across firms’ life cycle. We use the ... -
Firm Size and Export Behavior in a Developing Country
(2012-10-17)In the context of Indian industry, this paper argues that in the presence of capital market imperfection and sub-optimal contractual arrangements, small firms face higher transaction or selling costs in the domestic market. ... -
A First Cut Estimate of the Equity Risk Premium in India
(2009-08-08)We estimate the equity risk premium in India using data for the last 25 years. We address the shortcomings of existing indices by constructing our own total return index for the 1980s and early 1990s. We use our estimates ... -
First estimates of stock of capital at state level and data gaps in India
(2009-12-12)In the present paper the methodology and data sources to construct estimates of capital stock as on March 31, 1961 for 15 major state economies in India are described pointing out gaps in the availability of required data. ... -
Fiscal implications of price level changes and investment decisions
(2010-03-20)This paper explores the effect of inflation on the real value of shareholders' equity given the current depreciation policy with respect to the corporate income taxes. Would partly debt financing of the firm's activities ... -
Fiscal policy and the poor: miles to go
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Fishing in muddy waters: mergers and acquisitions during uncertainty
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2022-10-26)Using the COVID-19 pandemic as an exogenous shock, we examine whether firms engage in opportunistic mergers and acquisitions during uncertainty. Par- ticularly, we analyze the inorganic growth strategies of acquiring ... -
Fishing in the `troubled' waters: recognizing, respecting, and rewarding local ecological knowledge, innovations and practices concerning aquatic biological diversity
(2009-12-12)The study of indigenous ecological knowledge has become an important building block of any participatory approach to natural resources management. It is not the outsiders alone who benefit from the study of indigenous ... -
Fitting talent management strategy into national culture
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2016-02-11)In the face of globalization, organizations are concerned with how to design the talent management strategy that fits the national context. Based on an extensive literature review, the paper presents a systematic review ... -
Fix price equilibria in destribution economies
(2010-03-25)In this paper we consider a distribution economy which is dictated by the conditions of the non-substitution theorem for linear economic models of production. Although flexible prices in the consumption section are perfectly ...