: The literature on the adoption of modern agriculture technology reveals that several subjective and objective factors are responsible for the incomplete adoption of High Yielding Varieties (HYV) paddy seeds cultivation. Among many socioeconomic factors acting on the incomplete adoption of HYV,...

: This paper presents a monopolistic model of price discrimination by means of targeted informative advertising. Targeting is defined as the ability of the firm to direct messages with different contents to different segments of consumers. Segmentation is based on different valuations of the...

: Water has increasingly become scarce all over the world . Water is also being traded in its virtual form across nations. Trade policies can alter the magnitude and direction of flow of virtual water between nations. Regulating the virtual water flow is important as excess export of water would...

This study empirically examines the sustainability of external imbalances in 22 least developed countries as classified by the World Bank. The study uses the real trade balance series, which captures more precisely the behavior of the external balance. It examines the stationarity of the real...

Since the early 1990s, the employment structure of organized manufacturing industries in India has undergone substantial changes with steep rise in the use of contract workers in place of permanent workers. This process has led to increased wage inequality, discrimination as well as concern of...

This study examines profit efficiency of commercial banks in Kenya after the financial sector reforms were undertaken in the early 1990s. By utilizing the stochastic frontier approach it estimates the annual profit efficiency scores for 17 commercial banks for the period, 1995-2004. The results...

This study analyzes the responsiveness of the balance of trade to changes in real exchange rate. It also examines the time pattern of this response in order to verify the existence of the J-Curve phenomenon in Ghana. The Johansen multivariate cointegration method employed reveals that trade...

This paper conducts a multivariate time series analysis of output growth rate, investment and government consumption in Italy from 1950 to 2005. The empirical results are consistent with the prediction of the Solow growth model, while they do not support the family of endogenous growth models,...

After the formation of NAFTA (North American Free Trade Agreement) in 1994,USA's imports of textiles and clothing items have clearly shown a trend in favor of the Latin American suppliers, particularly Mexico, which is a member of NAFTA. Though India maintains a very low share in the global...

India opened up its stock market in the early 1990s allowing the Foreign Institutional Investors (FIIs) to invest in the Indian Stock Markets. It is widely believed that FIIs are the most volatile investors in the Indian stock market. It is also noticed that generally stock market volatility...