The poor performance of Public Sector Enterprises (PSEs) in the 1980s made reform increasingly urgent in the context of the broader strategy of liberalization of the economy to deal with the perceived weaknesses of India’s development strategy in general and PSEs in particular. In this...

Inadequate supply of water for irrigation has been the severe problem for the most of the farmers in the state of Andhra Pradesh in India. There are only very few districts where level of irrigation is reasonably sufficient. In most parts of the state, supply of water for crop cultivation has...

This study empirically determines the causal relation between the stock price and exchange rate in India. We used daily data since the use of monthly data may not be adequate to capture the effects of short term capital movements. Having established the stationarity condition of each series...

The study applies the dynamic conditional correlation (DCC) bivariate generalized autoregressive conditional heteroskedasticity (GARCH) model of Engle (2002) in order to capture the contagion effects during global financial crisis. We used daily stock returns for the period January...

The study shows that female work participation rate has declined and season-wise irrigation facility is the main factor that determines the employment and wages of the agricultural women labor. In Andhra Pradesh, male participation is more in categories of cultivators and other workers but their...

In a country like India where the stock market is undergoing significant transformation with liberalization measures, and the analysis of the nature of integration with other developed and emerging markets would not only give an idea of the possible gains to be reaped out of portfolio...

The paper analyzed a performance of the sensex vs. FIIs in Indian stock market and some of the most talked about movements of sensex starting with the secondary market summary of each year.FII s investments in BSE sensex reveal that the liquidity as well as volatility were highly influenced by...

Abstract The limited presence of futures exchanges in developing countries where commodity markets fall short of the ideal underscore the importance of understanding the relation between spot and futures markets. The paper examines the exceptional success of the soya oil contract at the National...

The recent rise in ethical consumerism has seen increasing numbers of corporate brands project a socially responsible and ethical image. But does having a corporate brand that is perceived to be ethical have any influence on outcome variables of interest for its product brands? This study...

This article presents the results of a study that investigated the roles that one’s money ethic, religiosity and attitude toward business play in determining consumer attitudes/beliefs in various situations regarding questionable consumer practices. Two dimensions of religiosity –...