The paper examines the pattern of stock returns of mid cap Indian companies over a period of time and proposes frameworks for predictive modelling. Ten features are identified as predictors of stock returns. Subsequently two Machine Learning models, Random Forest and Dynamic Neural Fuzzy...

Stock prices are subject to both systematic risk and unsystematic risk. While unsystematic risk can be reduced to some extent by portfolio diversification, systematic risk is external to a firm and in a sense reflects market sentiment and the existing macroeconomic condition. In this paper we...

When the Indian economy shifted from a process patent regime to a product patent regime in 2005, there was a thought as to whether Indian pharma companies would be able to weather the change in the regime. However, they have indeed succeeded in this transition and have grown in size. The world...

Presence of NPAs indicates asset quality of the balance sheet of a bank/institution and hence future income generating prospects. This also requires provisioning which has implications with respect to capital adequacy. Declining capital adequacy adversely affects shareholder value and restricts...

This paper deals extensively with the rise and decline of a All India Development Finance Institution (DFI) in India. In the process it deals with the financial sector reforms that have been undertaken in India and the change in approach towards a market oriented economy, which affected this...

This paper attempts to formalise and integrate the roles of "rural push" and "urban pull" factors in rural-urban migration and urban unemployment. Perpetual indebtedness of the peasantry and a monopolistic moneylender, combined with the Harris-Todaro framework, constitute the model. Analysis...