The presence of variation in all manufacturing and measurement processes is a natural phenomenon and is the key factor which affects the performance of all types of processes. A better understanding of the causes of variability in any processes is necessary to improve the process. For an...

Standard Shewhart control charts are often based on the assumption that the observations follow a specific parametric distribution, such as the normal, and outlier-free samples are initially selected to construct control limits for future monitoring of process parameters, e.g., location,...

Purpose – The purpose of this study is to test the validity of Fisher effect for four South Asian and two oil‐producing countries, namely India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia. Design/methodology/approach – The autoregressive distributed lag‐bound testing...

This paper investigates the performance effects of bank governance reforms in Pakistan where banking industry has completed two decades of transition from dominance of state-owned banks to a system where foreign and private banks compete freely with state-owned banks. We employ the stochastic...

The problems of development and improvement of telecommunication services in the Asia Pacific region are vast and complex. Nearly 60% of the world population lives in this region which offers many contrasts in geographical, climatic and socioeconomic conditions. Telecommunication services in the...

Purpose – The purpose of this study is to test the validity of Fisher effect for four South Asian and two oil-producing countries, namely India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia. Design/methodology/approach – The autoregressive distributed lag-bound testing approach...

This paper evaluates a monetary model of foreign exchange market pressure in Fiji using the autoregressive distributed lag bounds testing methodology. The results suggest that if the monetary authorities in Fiji fix the exchange rate, they lose the ability to implement an independent monetary...