Corporate restructuring is a widely adopted mode of improving efficiency and firm performance and has been studied in different country contexts such as the US, Australia, and Europe. The aim of this paper is to examine the impact of spin-off announcements on the stock prices of parent firms in...

A limited number of previous studies investigated the impact of agile manufacturing on overall business performance, especially in the Indian context. The study investigates the influence of agile manufacturing attributes, namely: Leadership support, Human related issues, customer-related...

We study the association between the ritual of menstrual restrictions and maternal health- care access as well as women's subjective well-being. Similar restrictions, also practised around the time of childbirth, are based on the assumption that women are ritually impure during these phases of...

The integration of India with the global financial system has expose Indian economy¡¦s external sectors to a harsh reality of capital flows. Among the capital flows, many are a global unaccounted risk and uncertainties. Systematic study to understand real and nominal impact of the flows in the...

Corporate restructuring is a widely adopted mode of improving efficiency and firm performance and has been studied in different country contexts such as the US, Australia, and Europe. The aim of this paper is to examine the impact of spin-off announcements on the stock prices of parent firms in...

The purpose of this review paper is to critically investigate the underlying factors that affect firm's financial leverage from the perspective of theoretical underpinnings. We reviewed 107 papers published from 1991 to 2005 in the core, non-core and other academic journals. On the basis of...

We study the association between the ritual of menstrual restrictions and maternal health- care access as well as women's subjective well-being. Similar restrictions, also practised around the time of childbirth, are based on the assumption that women are ritually impure during these phases of...

Purpose - The present world is crippled with the pandemic coronavirus (Covid-19). The pandemic that originated in Wuhan city of China has sent every country in the world in an unprecedented situation that has social and economic impacts. This paper aims to explore whether epidemics and pandemics...

The paper evaluates the return generating process for the Indian stock market implied by general multi-factor model and the Fama-French three-factor model in specific. It tests systematically and robustly, using a large sample data pooled from wide range of companies and periods, the relevance...