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Essays on audit committee and board composition
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2019)The first essay examines audit committee composition change with respect to new members joining. Firms are argued to maintain audit committee composition as per their monitoring needs (Krishnan and Lee, 2009) and independent ... -
Essays on banking and fintech in India
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2023)"India is amongst the fastest-growing major economies in the world today. Financing from the organized sector, particularly banking, remains the fulcrum for supporting and sustaining India’s growth. Three aspects, inter ... -
Essays on behavioural finance
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2021)We present two essays on behavioural finance in this dissertation. The first essay examines the influence of price-path, particularly the ‘non-straight’ price-path, on several aspects of investor behaviour. We compute ... -
Essays on capacitated hub location problems
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2023)"This thesis studies three essays based on hub location problems (HLPs) wherein hubs have limited capacities. We specifically look at two issues that can severely degrade the performance of a hub-and-spoke network: i) ... -
Essays on caste demography, occupational diversity, education, and entrepreneurship in India
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2024)India's diverse socio-economic fabric has been shaped by its caste system over centuries. This thesis constructs and analyzes a unique database on caste sub-groups (jatis) to study population structures, occupational ... -
Essays on climate change from stakeholder engagement perspective
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2024)Achieving environmental sustainability has been a priority for firms in the recent past. Firms are trying to reduce emissions and engaging with stakeholders to reduce the overall emissions in their extended value chain to ... -
Essays on consumers’ responses to retail promotions
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2021-09-24)How do consumers respond to innovative forms of promotional strategies employed by retailers? This thesis attempts to answer this question across two essays, using experiments as a primary method of inquiry. In Essay 1, ... -
Essays on consumption distribution and heterogeneity in household preferences
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2024)Income interventions with pro-poor targeting is a common fiscal policy around the world. However, their corresponding distributional effects on consumption and savings are not well understood. In the first essay, using an ... -
Essays on Corporate Social Performance (CSP) & Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR): A global to firm level analysis
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2018)In recent years, there is a growing interest about corporate social responsibility (CSR) of firms in both academic literature and business world. Here, the underlying rationale is that since business forms a part of society, ... -
Essays on financial intermediation
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2020)We present three essays on financial intermediation in this dissertation. The first essay examines the credit risk choices of the public sector banks (PSBs) in India with novel data that identifies borrowers with their ... -
Essays on Frontline workers’ motivation and performance under public programs: A multi-method study
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2018)Frontline workers constitute a critical part of the implementation cadre within public policies, serving a significant role in the delivery of public goods and services. This dissertation examines frontline workers’ work ... -
Essays on inflation expectations
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2020)“Expectations about macroeconomic variables play an important role in economic theory and policy-making. Household inflation expectations are key to understanding household consumption and investment decisions, and hence ... -
Essays on internal markets of business groups
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2019)In three essays, I examine how access to internal markets of business groups impacts affiliate firms’ behavior. In the first essay, I examined the importance of business group affiliation, prior internationalization of ... -
Essays on machine learning for enhanced decision support in e-Commerce
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2023)"E-commerce is proliferating, consequently, the need to make informed decisions. Many ecommerce platforms have adopted data-driven solutions in various applications, such as product recommendation and fraud detection. This ... -
Essays on managerial discretion
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2023)"This thesis examines discretionary managerial decisions and investigates their association with the behavioral biases of market participants. We study managerial discretion in the context of repricing employee stock ... -
Essays on navigating fake reviews and enhancing trust in e-commerce websites
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2024)The continued prevalence of fake reviews in the online marketplace poses a pervasive challenge impacting consumers, businesses, and online platforms. Fake reviews deviate from honest evaluations, potentially distort ... -
Essays on online hyperlocal food service marketplaces
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2018)Owing to the e-commerce revolution, food service business is shifting from being the traditional brick-and-mortar dine-in restaurant to being an online food ordering business. Although the online food service delivery ... -
Essays on regulatory aspects in Indian financial market
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2024)Country-level legal and regulatory institutions play a crucial role in the overall economic development of the country by facilitating the raising of external financial capital, and the flow of foreign investments among ... -
Essays on revenue management
(2010)Revenue Management (RM) is the process of understanding, anticipating and reacting to consumer behavior in order to maximize expected future revenue from a perishable resource. The challenge here is to sell the right product ... -
Essays on seduelized and comparative advertising strategies: a search for the best advertising decision
(2010)Different formats of competitive advertising strategies interplay in present day markets. While some advertisements compare competing brands, some others are sequelized on earlier advertisements, either in an attempt to ...