This study is an attempt to generate empirical evidence on the time discount rate or “impatience” of forest dependent communities (FDCs). The FDCs covered in the study include two different geographical regions from the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh – Rayalaseema (a relatively dry forest...

The bandwidth packing problem seeks to select and route a set of calls from a given list, each with a pre-specified requirement for bandwidth, on an undirected communication network such that the revenue generated is maximized. In this paper, we present a model and an exact solution approach for...

We consider a class of location-allocation problems with immobile servers, stochastic demand and congestion that arises in several planning contexts: location of emergency medical clinics; preventive healthcare centers; refuse collection and disposal centers; stores and service centers; bank...

This study is an attempt to generate empirical evidence on attitude towards risk of forest dependent communities (FDCs). The FDCs covered in the study include two different geographical regions from the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh – Rayalaseema (a relatively dry forest region with low...

We study a duopoly market in which customers are heterogeneous in their sensitivity to price and leadtime, and can be segmented as price sensitive or time sensitive. Each firm tailors (differentiates) its products/services for the two customer classes solely based on price and the corresponding...

We develop a quick and approximate way to address the fleet sizing problem for transporters with non-stationary demands and uncertain trip times. Non-stationary demands are modeled using Markov-modulated Poisson process (MMPP) and the variable fleet size is modeled using multi-server queuing...

Objective function in term structure estimation with price errors is not only non-linear but also non-convex in parameters. This makes the final results sensitive to both the choice of the optimization routine as well as to the starting guess. This study looks at the impact of the choice of the...

This paper begins by outlining the views of economists on food management and contemporary food policy issues in the backdrop of largely unchanging dynamics of slow growth of the farm sector in India. First we deal with the manner in which the changing situation is dealt with in terms of cycles...

The relationship between market concentration and innovative efforts by firms has attracted a lot of attention by researchers. However, a consensus is yet to emerge on the conceptual underpinnings and empirical manifestations of this relationship. While Schumpeter (1942) argued that existence of...

Against the backdrop of evolution of rural credit system in India as well as its observed failure to be inclusive in character, this paper makes use of a fairly large data set of the Center for Mangement in Agriculture in Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad to try to explain several...