DSpace Collection: Working Papers of 2012 are available in this collection
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Working Papers of 2012 are available in this collection2024-03-28T17:09:03ZPricing Strategies for Gaming-on-Demand
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Title: Pricing Strategies for Gaming-on-Demand
Authors: Basu, Sumanta; Chakraborty, Soumyakanti; Sharma, Megha
Abstract: In the last few years, social gaming has resulted in signi cant upheavals in the tradi-
tional video gaming industry. However, an even bigger threat looms large in the horizon.
The advent of cloud gaming or gaming-on-demand is expected to disrupt the traditional
gaming industry. However, the success of the gaming-on-demand model would depend
to a large extent on the availability of broadband services. As the quality of broadband
services is not uniform across the di erent geographies, pricing of cloud gaming services
must take this non-uniformity into account. The paper provides managerial guidelines
for cloud game providers on pricing their o erings. We develop a pricing schedule for a
typical cloud game provider by modeling the non-uniformity of broadband availability,
and a gamer's propensity to engage in gaming. We explore two pricing plans: usage
based and xed fee plan. We determine the conditions under which gamers would select
one plan over another, and discuss the signi cance of these conditions for cloud gaming
providers.2012-12-01T00:00:00ZThe IIM Calcutta Data Centre : A Retrospective, Programming Tutorial and Future Directions
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Title: The IIM Calcutta Data Centre : A Retrospective, Programming Tutorial and Future Directions
Authors: Srikant, P; Chakrabarti, B B
Abstract: The Data Centre was at the Finance Research and Trading Laboratory, IIM Calcutta, was
initiated in April 2010. This data centre is now a unique repository of Indian tick data, from
which a stream of academic research in asset pricing and microstructure has started emerging.
The data is also used by students inclined towards trading careers to devise strategies in
partnership with financial firms. The time now seems appropriate to take stock of the data
centre’s achievements over the past two and a half years, and to critically re-examine the
rationale for various design choices made at the time. Also, this article provides short
programming vignettes which demonstrate best practices for using this data. It concludes with
some suggestions on how to develop this resource in the years to come.2012-12-01T00:00:00ZPrivate Equity Trends and Exits in the Indian Market
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Title: Private Equity Trends and Exits in the Indian Market
Authors: Seth, Rama; Chinchwadkar, Rohan
Abstract: Private equity (PE) investors provide capital to private companies, usually for expansion, new
product development, or restructuring of the company’s operations, management, or ownership. As the firm grows, PE investors sell their stakes in the company either to return
the capital to the limited partners or to find new investee companies. At the same time,
owners of the company might either look for other sources of capital for new projects or look
for ways in which they can sell off their stake and exit. There are four major exit outcomes
for private equity investors: initial public offering (IPO), financial sale, strategic sale and
buyback. The major difference between IPO and other mechanisms is that an IPO involves a
large number of dispersed investors whereas the other three mechanisms involve a single or
very few investors.2012-11-01T00:00:00ZFrom Market Separation to Market Development at Bottom of Pyramid: Case Studies on Two Non-Profit Organizations
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Title: From Market Separation to Market Development at Bottom of Pyramid: Case Studies on Two Non-Profit Organizations
Authors: Singh, Ramendra; Modi, Pratik
Abstract: In this working paper, we analyze two non-profit organizations, Digital Empowerment
Foundation (DEF), and Barefoot College, and study how these NGOs helped to develop
markets at BOP by reducing market separations. We use, and extend Bartel’s(1968)
theoretical lens of market separations that suggest that markets fail to develop if one or
more of the following market separations are present. These market separations aretemporal
separation, financial separation, information separation, and spatial
separation. In our case studies, we also find fifth and a new market separation which we
label, “ Capability Separation” that connotes the lack of adequate market-skills with
producers and/or consumers to participate in the markets, and which if present, can
mitigate market development at BOP. We propose that our case studies provide new
insights on market separations perspective to developing markets at BOP by paying more
attention to specific market separations that inhibit market development, as highlighted
in our case studies. We also propose that capabilities separation is the not only the ‘only
human separation’ but also acts as a catalyst such that reducing this separation
accelerates reduction in the other four market separations. Towards this objective,
identification of capabilities or knowledge separation (of poor producers/consumers2012-11-01T00:00:00Z