Browsing Thesis and Dissertations by Author "Das, Abhiman"
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Aligning decarbonization of energy systems and sustainable development in India: synergies and tradeoffs
Gupta, Dipti (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2020)Although a rapidly growing economy, India faces many challenges on energy access and clean energy echoing some of the Sustainable Development Goals of the United Nations. Moreover, post-2020 climate actions outlined in ... -
An empirical exploration of education and inequality – Three essays
Kishan, P. K. V. (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2018)Education has been reckoned as means through which life chances of the poor and the disadvantaged improve. However, prior research has also attributed education as being one of the key channels by which economic inequality ... -
Essays on banking and fintech in India
Yadav, Varun (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
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 Corporate Social Performance (CSP) & Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR): A global to firm level analysis
Mukherjee, Debdatta (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 inflation expectations
Singh, Gaurav Kumar (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 ... -
Higher education in India: efficiency, quality and sustainability
Sen, Samudra (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2019)In a world where data and information are ubiquitous and omnipotent, education plays a prominent role in almost all aspects of modern life. Governments and various global agencies ramp up their efforts for propagating ... -
Unbundling innovation strategies: firms’ technological choices and complementarities-in-performance of innovation inputs and outputs across developing countries
Dwibedy, Punyashlok (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2022)Innovation is considered a multi-level construct and it takes the form of (i) inputs and (ii) outputs. Based on this, the thesis considers three inter-related questions in the form of three essays: (1) What factors (firm, ... -
Welfare programs and household behaviour: the case of MGNREGS
Parameswaran, Swarna (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2023)"The welfare effects of workfare programs like India’s Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) have been identified and measured extensively in the literature. I hypothesize that both the temporal ...