Browsing Working Papers by Author "Pingali, Viswanath"

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    • Are investors ethics agnostic? 

      Jaikumar, Saravana; Pingali, Viswanath; Virmani, Vineet (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2015)
      In this paper we ask if the perception investors have regarding ethical nature of the management per se influences their action. In order to check for rent seeking behaviour that could arise when there is negative perception ...

    • Brand Effect and Price Discrimination in the Video Rental Industry 

      Pingali, Viswanath (2013-11-21)
      What is the effect of competition on prices in a market where the product is offered at different quality levels? Would the increase in competition reduce the price of high quality good more than the low quality good? ...

    • Competition Law and the Pharmaceutical Sector in India 

      Mondal, Shamim S.; Pingali, Viswanath (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2015)
      The Indian pharmaceutical industry is one of the largest in the world both in terms of volume and value. Given its critical importance, the sector has been subject to a series of regulatory interventions, which have altered ...

    • Does Competition in the Microfinance Industry Necessarily Mean Over-borrowing? 

      Lahkar, Ratul; Pingali, Viswanath; Sadhu, Santadarshan (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, ...

    • Endowment effects in bundles 

      Dutta, Swati; Mukhopadhyay, Jyoti Prasad; Pingali, Viswanath (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2014)
      Behavioral experiments conducted so far to establish existence of endowment effect as propounded by prospect theorists typically endow subjects with a single good. In this paper we depart from this setting by giving subjects ...

    • Entry of Profit-Motivated Microfinance Institutions and Borrower Welfare 

      Pingali, Viswanath; Lahkar, Ratul (2013-11-22)
      In this paper, we model welfare implications of entry of commercial micro nance institutions (MFIs). We initially characterize equilibrium with a sole fund-constrained benevolent credit institution followed by equilibrium ...

    • Is 2% the Solution? Experimental Evidence on the New CSR Rule in India 

      Desai, Naman; Pingali, Viswanath; Tripathy, Arindam (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2015)
      The Indian government became the first regulator in the world to mandate a minimum CSR spending on certain specified social welfare activities. Prior research in psychology indicates that individuals tend to focus heavily ...

    • The welfare consequences of patent protection, pricing and licensing in the Indian oral anti-diabetic market 

      Chatterjee, Chirantan; Kubo, Kensuke; Pingali, Viswanath (IIM Ahmedabad, 2015-03)