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Information in the Term Structure – The Indian Evidence (I): Modeling the Term Structure and Information at the Short End for Future Inflation
(2009-08-08)
This study is first in part of an on-going work on assessing the information content of the term structure in India for future inflation, future short rates and real interest rates.
In this paper, first the Indian term ...
Implementing Tabu Search to Exploit Sparsity in ATSP Instances
(2009-07-28)
Real life traveling salesman problem (TSP) instances are often large, sparse, and asymmetric.
Conventional tabu search implementations for the TSP that have been reported in the literature,
almost always deals with small, ...
What Emotional Labor is: A Review of Literature
(2009-08-13)
The dominance of customer over the production/service employee, and as a result of this, increasing use of emotional labor in the workplace furthers the need to understand what emotional labor is. In this regard, the present ...
Salesperson’s Customer Orientation: A Reconceptualization and a New Definition
(2009-07-30)
This study critically examines the existing domains, conceptualizations and operationalizations of the salesperson’s customer orientation constructs present in the literature. The widely used Salesperson orientation-Customer ...
Aspirations, Enterprise Strategy and Sustenance of a Start-up in a Competitive Environment: A Study of Developments in Air Deccan
(2009-08-03)
This paper studies the developments in Air Deccan, a start up in the Indian aviation industry and discusses the linkages among the aspirations of the entrepreneur, enterprise strategy and its sustenance in a competitive ...
Design and Application of Risk Adjusted Cumulative Sum (RACUSUM) for Online Strength Monitoring of Ready Mixed Concrete
(2009-07-29)
The Cumulative Sum (CUSUM) procedure is an effective statistical process control tool that can be used to monitor quality of ready mixed concrete (RMC) during its production process. Online quality monitoring refers to ...
Information in the Term Structure – The Indian Evidence (I): Modeling the Term Structure and Information at the Short End for Future Inflation
(2009-08-08)
This study is first in part of an on-going work on assessing the information content of the term structure in India for future inflation, future short rates and real interest rates.
In this paper, first the Indian term ...
Feasibility of Integrating Solar Desalination with Greenhouse Systems in Semi-Arid Region of North-west India
(2009-07-29)
A two-phase project is underway to develop greenhouse systems suitable for water scarce, semi-arid region of north-west India (Kutch). The first phase aimed at studying the effectiveness of natural ventilation ...
Volatility Modeling, Seasonality and Risk-Return Relationship in GARCH-in-Mean Framework: The Case of Indian Stock and Commodity Markets
(2009-07-30)
This paper is based on an empirical study of volatility, risk premium and seasonality in risk-return relation of the Indian stock and commodity markets. This investigation is conducted by means of the General Autoregressive ...
Impact of Initial-Trust Image on Shopper Trust and Patronage Intentions
(2009-08-03)
The objective of this study is to examine the role of store image in influencing shopper trust and patronage intentions when 1) the store has never been visited and 2) the store has been visited. This study also identifies ...