Dimuthu Ratnadiwakara

Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge

Assistant Professor

Baton Rouge, LA 70803

United States

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Social Influence in Mobile Phone Adoption: Evidence from the Bottom of Pyramid in Emerging Asia

Number of pages: 22 Posted: 04 Mar 2010 Last Revised: 09 Mar 2010
Harsha de Silva, Dimuthu Ratnadiwakara and Ayesha Zainudeen
LIRNEasia, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge and LIRNEasia
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Invisible Primes: Fintech Lending with Alternative Data

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Invisible Primes: Fintech Lending with Alternative Data

Number of pages: 76 Posted: 11 Oct 2021 Last Revised: 13 Jun 2022
Marco Di Maggio, Dimuthu Ratnadiwakara and Don Carmichael
Harvard Business School, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge and University of Houston - C.T. Bauer College of Business
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Fintech Lending, Alternative Data, Machine Learning, Algorithm Bias

Invisible Primes: Fintech Lending with Alternative Data

NBER Working Paper No. w29840
Number of pages: 68 Posted: 14 Mar 2022 Last Revised: 18 Jul 2022
Marco Di Maggio, Dimuthu Ratnadiwakara and Don Carmichael
Harvard Business School, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge and Upstart Inc
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Transaction Costs in Agriculture: From the Planting Decision to Selling at the Wholesale Market: A Case-Study on the Feeder Area of the Dambulla Dedicated Economic Centre in Sri Lanka

3rd Communication Policy Research, South Conference, Beijing, China
Number of pages: 18 Posted: 22 Feb 2010
Dimuthu Ratnadiwakara, Harsha de Silva and Shamistra Soysa
Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LIRNEasia and affiliation not provided to SSRN
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Climate Risk Perceptions and Demand for Flood Insurance

Number of pages: 55 Posted: 08 Mar 2020
Dimuthu Ratnadiwakara and Buvaneshwaran Venugopal
Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge and University of Central Florida - College of Business Administration
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Global Warming, Adaptation, Flood Insurance, Perceptions

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Telecom Regulatory Environment (TRE) Assessment: Methodology and Implementation Results from Five Emerging Economies

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Telecom Regulatory Environment (TRE) Assessment: Methodology and Implementation Results from Five Emerging Economies

Presented at 35th Telecom Policy Research Conference, Fairfax VA, USA, Sep 28 – 30, 2007
Number of pages: 26 Posted: 05 Mar 2010
Rohan Samarajiva, Helani Galpaya and Dimuthu Ratnadiwakara
LIRNEasia, LIRNEasia and Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge
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Collateral Value and Strategic Default: Evidence From Auto Loans

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Collateral Value and Strategic Default: Evidence From Auto Loans

Number of pages: 50 Posted: 10 Jun 2018 Last Revised: 30 Aug 2018
Dimuthu Ratnadiwakara
Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge
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Strategic Default, Collateral Value, Auto Loans

Collateral Value and Strategic Default: Evidence from Auto Loans

Number of pages: 51 Posted: 24 Jul 2018 Last Revised: 04 Aug 2018
Dimuthu Ratnadiwakara
Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge
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Strategic Default, Collateral Value, Auto Loans

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Flooded Social Connections

Number of pages: 23 Posted: 05 Jan 2021 Last Revised: 29 Jul 2021
Dimuthu Ratnadiwakara
Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge
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social networks, flood insurance, hurricane harvey

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Impact of Information Asymmetry and Servicer Incentives on Foreclosure of Securitized Mortgages

Number of pages: 55 Posted: 14 Apr 2016
Dimuthu Ratnadiwakara
Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge
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Securitization, Foreclosure, Information Asymmetry, Servicer

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Who's Got the Phone? The Gendered Use of Telephones at the Bottom of the Pyramid

International Communications Association Conference, Montreal, Canada, May 26, 2008
Number of pages: 26 Posted: 23 Feb 2010
Ayesha Zainudeen, Tahani Iqbal, Rohan Samarajiva and Dimuthu Ratnadiwakara
LIRNEasia, Research Fellow, LIRNEasia and Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge
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Teleuse at the Bottom of the Pyramid: Findings from a Five Country Study

3rd Global Knowledge Conference, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 11-13 December 2007
Number of pages: 11 Posted: 26 Feb 2010
Ayesha Zainudeen, Nirmali Sivapragasam, Harsha de Silva, Tahani Iqbal and Dimuthu Ratnadiwakara
LIRNEasia, LIRNEasia, LIRNEasia, Research Fellow and Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge
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Demographic, Jurisdictional, and Spatial Effects on Social Distancing in the United States during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Number of pages: 45 Posted: 26 May 2020 Last Revised: 30 Jul 2020
Rajesh Narayanan, James Nordlund, R. Kelley Pace and Dimuthu Ratnadiwakara
Louisiana State University, affiliation not provided to SSRN, Louisiana State University - E.J. Ourso College of Business Administration and Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge
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COVID-19, social distancing, stay at home, spatial dependence

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Effect of Bank Mergers on the Price and Availability of Mortgage Credit

Number of pages: 45 Posted: 09 Nov 2020 Last Revised: 16 May 2022
Dimuthu Ratnadiwakara and Vijay Yerramilli
Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge and University of Houston, C. T. Bauer College of Business
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Bank mergers, mortgage interest rate, loan approval, non-agency mortgages

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The Enduring Effects of Interest Rates at Mortgage Origination

Number of pages: 61 Posted: 16 Jun 2020
Don Carmichael, Dimuthu Ratnadiwakara and Kevin Roshak
University of Houston - C.T. Bauer College of Business, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge and University of Houston - Department of Finance
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Entertainment as a Platform for More-than-Voice Services

Number of pages: 16 Posted: 14 Aug 2013
Harsha de Silva and Dimuthu Ratnadiwakara
LIRNEasia and Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge
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mobile telecommunication, BOP, mobile phone, more-than-voice, value-added-services

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The FIMA NFIP’s Redacted Policies and Redacted Claims Data Sets

Posted: 21 Oct 2019
Timothy Dombrowski, Dimuthu Ratnadiwakara and V. Carlos Slawson Jr.
affiliation not provided to SSRN, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge and affiliation not provided to SSRN

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FEMA, NFIP, OpenFEMA, flood, insurance, takeup rates, Write Your Own (WYO), Base Flood Elevation, FIRM

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Using ICT to Reduce Transaction Costs in Agriculture through Better Communication: A Case Study from Sri Lanka

Posted: 08 Mar 2010
Harsha de Silva and Dimuthu Ratnadiwakara
LIRNEasia and Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge

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