Abstract of the seminar Recent experimental studies have illustrated the influence of price-path, particularly the‘non-straight’ price-path on several aspects of investor behaviour. The paper computes a proxy for price-path based on Cumulative Prospect Theory and with investor-level high-frequency trade data from the commodities futures market, we demonstrate that the nature of price-path significantly impacts the degree of disposition bias, …Read more »

By:  Prof. Praveen Sugathan, Assistant Professor, IIM Kozhikode After trying a host of writing tools such as word (Microsoft as well as open source versions), LaTeX and Lyx, He had settled on Scrivener as his default writing tool. He had shaped his entire thesis (three complete essays) as well as other 5-6 papers using Scrivener. It works on the principle …Read more »

By: Prof. Pradip Sadarangani, Associate Professor, IIM Shillong. Abstract of the talk:  Power is an important construct in retailing and channel management. The paper focused on the interrelation dynamics among sources of social power as well as the relationship among behavior of channel members and sources of social power. Trust, agent dependence, affective commitment and environmental munificence behavior of channel members …Read more »

By: Prof. Praveen Sugathan, Assistant Professor, IIM Kozhikode. Abstract Of the Talk: “Enlisting unpaid workers to co-produce the products and services, which are converted to money in the market often by selling to the same people whose labor helped to produce them, corresponds to the expropriation of surplus value from consumer labor. From a Marxian perspective, therefore, co-creation also signifies the exploitation …Read more »