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Mutation of the trademark doctrine: analysing actionable use to reconcile brand identities with constitutional safeguards
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2022-04-19)Trade marks serve as a storehouse of information, assuring consumers about the quality of a product by ensuring that products bearing the trade mark originate from a consistent source. The trade mark doctrine has ... -
Bilevel optimization: applications, models and solution approaches
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2022-05-17)Bilevel optimization is a difficult class of optimization problems, which contain an inner optimization problem as a constraint to an outer optimization problem. Such optimization problems are commonly referred to as ... -
Stigma, corporate insolvency, and law: international practices and lessons for India
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2022-05-17)nsolvency and bankruptcy have always attracted a measure of stigma. The negative attitude towards insolvency emerged due to the historically harsh treatment of bankrupts and the perception of bankruptcy as a breach of a ... -
Gai aadharit unnati (GAU)*: modernizing cow based economy through application of advanced technology
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2022-05-30)The cow#, in the Indian context, has been the backbone of our agricultural economy since the early age of human civilization. Our agriculture-based economy thrived alongside cow welfare; thanks to a bounty of natural ... -
Exploring the role of IoT in worker safety and productivity
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2022-06-03)This paper analyses the role of the Internet of Things in increasing worker safety and productivity as well as improving performance appraisal methods in the factory setup. It examines how IoT can be used to benefit both ... -
Impact of covid-19 disruptions on the supply chain:insights from India
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2022-06-03)Supply Chains play very important role in driving the economy of the country. COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent lockdowns have disrupted the supply chains of various firms. It has been estimated that the total cost of supply ... -
Towards an integrated framework for resolving ethical dilemmas
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2022-06-29)Ethics play a critical role in voluntarily yet collectively directing a society towards achieving peace, harmony, and prosperity. Although most cases involving ethical violations are simple and clear to resolve, some ... -
Litigating barbie: trade mark infringement, parody and free speech
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2022-07-15)In the contemporary marketplace, trade marks are not mere monikers of origin. While often regarded as commercial symbols, trade marks sometimes become part of the commonplace vocabulary and are indelibly linked to ... -
Effects of climatic variations on child morbidity in Bundelkhand region of India: a panel data analysis
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2022-07-29)Background Morbidity and mortality related impacts of climate change are increasingly becoming a public health challenge especially among vulnerable groups. India has made significant progress in reducing its child mortality ... -
India's progressive environmental case law: a worthy roadmap for global climate change litigation
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2022-09-20)This paper explores how the long-standing tradition of common law countries such as India, which have acknowledged the fundamental right to a healthy and pollution free life for many decades, can assist Judges in other ... -
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 ... -
Cyclically adjusted PE ratio (CAPE) and stock market characteristics in India
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2022-09-29)We estimate the Cyclically Adjusted PE ratio (CAPE) for equity indices in the Indian market. We find the average CAPE ratio of the Indian market is lower than that of the US. Judging the market valuation level based on ... -
Arbitrage constraints and behaviour of volatility components: evidence from a natural experiment
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2022-10-06)Short-selling constraints are known to impede information flow into the financial markets, particularly that of negative information. We employ “Regulation SHO” as a natural experiment to examine how the lowering of short ... -
Risk information - normal markets and the COVID-19 pandemic period
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2022-10-06)The paper investigates how the market infers changes in the firm-level discount rate (risk information) in normal and turbulent times. The study focuses on two key sources of risk information, earnings announcements of ... -
Performance of quality factor in Indian equity market
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2022-12-06)We study the characteristics of Quality factor (QMJ) in India, which is the sec- ond largest emerging market. Dimensions of quality factor are impacted by the weaker enforcement of corporate governance norms in emerging ... -
In pursuit of balance: vicarious liability doctrine in the United Kingdom and India
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2022-12-20)The Doctrine of Vicarious Liability is a unique exception to the principle of fault-based liability and holds persons liable for the actions of third parties. The recent verdicts in WM Morrison Supermarkets v Various ... -
Sixtieth Annual Report 2021-22
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When dhotis were exported as saris to defeat ban in Sudan
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Plan change: ICICI Bank to hike stake in ICICI Lombard
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Why most B-schools look forward to FT ranking
(Financial Express, 2023-05-29)