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Private corporate investment in Gujarat: the picture for 1980 and forecast for 1981
(2010-03-14)
In this paper, an attempt is made to forecast the growth in private corporate investment in Gujarat in 1981. The term 'Corporate Investment' covers gross capital expenditure of all companies in the private and joint sectors. ...
Strategies of technology intensive firms
(2010-03-28)
This working paper summarises the findings of a study of 46 high-technology venture capital funded firms. The focus of the study was on the decision orientation of entrepreneurs on various strategy related dimensions. It ...
Optimal ordering and inspection policies when the incoming lost are subjected to sampling inspection
(2010-03-15)
In this paper a mathematical model has been developed in which the interactions of Economic Order Quantities with quality control policies have been considered. The incoming lots of an inventory system are assumed to be ...
Rupee-dollar option pricing and risk measurement: jump processes, changing volatility and kurtosis shifts
(2010-03-28)
Exchange rate movements in the Indian rupee (and many other emerging
market currencies) are characterised by long periods of placidity punctuated
by abrupt and sharp changes. Many, but by no means all, of these sharp
changes ...
Use of human respondents in research: problems and coping strategies
(2010-03-14)
It has been argued that respondents behavior in research settings is not only determined by research manipulation but a variety of uncontrolled human factors/ Literature that suggests the existence of such factors is ...
Study of attitudes towards women officers in banks
(2010-03-22)
An increasing number of Indian women are joining managerial ranks, yet very few studies have been carried out to empirically assess people's attitudes towards women managers. This paper reports results of a study of attitudes ...
Reconsideration of the additive choice function
(2010-03-28)
The purpose of this paper is to provide axiomatic characterizations of the additive and weighted additive choice functions which are now defined over the entire domain of convex, compact, comprehensive choice problems.
Decision process of individuals under conditions of risk: an experimental study
(2010-03-19)
Theoretical models in finance are many a time based on unrealistic assumptions about the behaviour of individuals. Empirical validation of the models is expected to vindicate the assumptions. However, in most situations, ...
Interprovincial variation in economic growth in Canada
(2010-03-21)
In the present paper, the dynamic aspects of regional variations in the economic growth are examined. Over the three decades of the fifties, sixties and seventies, the growth pattern in different provinces of Canada has ...
Investigation of decision criteria for investment in risky assets
(2010-03-19)
This paper examines the empirical validity of stochastic dominance rules and the mean-variance framework by analysing data generated through an experiment on individual investment decisions under uncertainty. The analyses ...