Best Paper Certificate at COSMAR 2017 has been awarded to Nabendu Paul, a scholar of IIM Bangalore's doctoral program, the Fellow Program in Management (FPM), in the Finance & Accounting area, and Kalpana Tokas, who is pursuing her doctoral studies at IIMB in the Economics & Social Sciences area.
Nabendu Paul's paper is titled, 'Determinants of Ownership Concentration: Evidence from the Cross Section Sample of Indian firms'.
Kalpana's paper is titled, 'New Age Preferential Trade Agreements (PTAs): Implications for Value Added Trade'.
Out of 110 submitted papers, IISc selected 66 papers for the presentation.
Of the selected papers, 4 papers received the awards on November 21. As a reward a cash prize of INR 5000 was given to the winners. Out of four selected, two papers of IIMB's doctoral scholar were choosen.
Professor Rejie George Pallathitta, Chairperson, Fellow Programme in Management, IIMB and faculty from the Strategy area congratulated both the winners of IIM-B and said that such efforts make invaluable contribution to the field of research.
COSMAR or the Consortium of Students in Management Research is an annual research consortium which is organized by the Department of Management Studies, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore.