Browsing Thesis and Dissertations by Author "Pandey, Ajay"
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Determinants of Inter-Country Variations in Outward Foreign Direct Investment and Cases of Outward FDI from India
Jain, Palakh (2013)Existing literature offers the reasons for emergence of foreign direct investment (FDI) through various hypotheses. The intangible assets advantage hypothesis suggests that FDI occurs due to presence of a bundle of “intangible ... -
Development, climate change and Indian cities: framing and implementing policies
Avashia, Vidhee (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2019)Cities in India are already experiencing enhanced climate variability and extremes in annual precipitation and temperature events. A city’s climate is affected both by global warming and local factors such as its built ... -
The dynamics of bid-ask spread in an order driven market: the case of Indian stock market
Singh, Priyanka (2011)Bid-ask spread is the most important part of transaction costs for any asset class in the financial market. It affects the way information gets impounded into prices and thus price discovery of the asset. Bid ask spread, ... -
Essays in mergers and acquisitions, governance structures and firm valuation
Kinshuk, Saurabh (2013)Essay 1: Private Benefits, Wealth-risk Sensitivity and Conglomeration Lifecycle as Determinants of Ownership Structure In the first essay we investigate the cross-sectional determinants of ownership and examine the effect ... -
Essays on audit committee and board composition
Poonawala, Sakina H. (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 behavioural finance
Bansal, Avijit (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 financial intermediation
Gopalakrishnan, Balagopal (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
Srinivasan, Shuchi (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 managerial discretion
Sharma, Abhinav (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 regulatory aspects in Indian financial market
Singh, Bharati (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 share repurchases
Saurabh, Suman (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2018)This dissertation comprises three essays, which empirically examine the influence of investor and managerial irrationality on open market repurchases (OMRs) in the US market. In the first essay, we examine the systematic ... -
Essays on the role of information in financial markets
Srivastava, Pranjal (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2023)"This Ph.D. dissertation comprises three essays on the role of information in financial markets. The first essay examines the impact of the introduction of a minimum buyback mandate in open market repurchases. In line with ... -
Exploring the evolution of the test-preparation industry in India - historiographic analysis and public policy implications
Kishore, Vinayak (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2024)An increasing number of aspirants for a diverse range of competitive examinations, and a culture of ‘high-stakes’ examinations, has led the Indian test-preparation, or ‘test-prep’/coaching industry, to experience strong ... -
Factors influencing the performance of IS megaproject in an emerging economy: the freight operations information system of the Indian railways
Sharma, Sharad (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2021-09-13)IS megaprojects (ISMPs) are long duration complex ventures that involve extremely largescale investments, are transformational in nature, influence large populations and engage multiple public and private stakeholders. ... -
Formation process of public private partnership in transport infrastructure in India
Satyam Shivam Sundaram (2009)The dissertation suggests that an attempt to create strong relational arrangements along with the contractual arrangements would lead to higher rate of success in PPP. Relational arrangements have become a major determinant ... -
Impact of regulation change on earnings quality in India
Gupta, Monika (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2017)The primary objective of this thesis is to examine the impact of regulation change on earnings quality. This work is organized into two distinct chapters. The first chapter examines the impact of auditor appointment ... -
Intraday activity patterns and market microstructure effects in Indian capital markets: an empirical investigation using high frequency data
Agarwalla, Sobhesh Kumar (2010)This study analyzes the intraday activity (volatility, volume and trade frequency) patterns and market microstructure effects in the Indian capital market using a large dataset. Intraday 5-minutes volume and volatility are ... -
Liquidity: effect on securities returns in Indian capital markets
Pandey, Ajay (1994)In the mainstream literature of finance, Liquidity of an asset has not been considered an important determinant of its expected return or its price. There have been, however, few empirical and theoretical works which point ... -
Measurement of Systemic Risk and its Drivers
Verma, Naval B. (2013)The recent global financial crisis has taught us a tough and important lesson- there is a pressing need for containing systemic risk in the financial system. However, prior to Containing this risk and form the necessary ... -
Mitigation strategies for transitioning towards ‘Net-zero’ emissions from energy systems
Patange, Omkar S. (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2022-03-23)Net-zero emissions from energy systems are essential to meet the Paris climate goals. These transitions require intensive efforts from national governments, in addition to deeper climate commitments. As a coal-dependent, ...