The study attempts to find out the trends in dividend payment and determinants of dividend decision. A sample of 607 BSE-listed Indian companies has been considered for the period from 1993-94 to 2004-05. Study results show that number of non-payers and low-payers of dividend has increased....

In study described in this article, we developed a memory type estimator for the population mean in stratified successive sampling. We used the past sample information together with the current sample information through hybrid exponentially weighted moving averages statistics. We have also used...

This paper analyzes the impact of Union Budgets on Indian stock prices, as represented by the Sensex, the flagship index of Bombay Stock Exchange. The impact is observed in terms of returns and volatility over a 15-year period from 1991 to 2005. The statistical tests applied on returns around...

Modelling age-specific fertility rates is of great importance in demography because of their influence on population growth. Although we have a variety of fertility models in the demographic literature, most of them do not have any demographic interpretation for their parameters. It is generally...