India seems to qualify as a soft power by default with her democratic tradition, Mahatma Gandhi with his concept of non-violence and peaceful conflict mediation as national hero and Bollywood as a quasiglobal dream fabric. The high economic growth rates since the liberalisation in 1991 have...

Foreign exchange market efficiency is commonly investigated by Fama-regression tests of uncovered interest parity (UIP). In this paper, we conjecture a speculative UIP relationship which implies that exchange rate changes comprise a time-varying risk component in addition to the forward...

In previous papers it has been shown that adding a positive scalar self-interaction (ψψ)2 to the Dirac field Lagrangian provides a reasonably satisfactory model to describe the barions. In this work, we analyze other solutions of the same nonlinear Dirac equation, making progress in the...