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Economics of scale in the Indian cement industry
(2010-03-14)
The paper purports to investigate the existence or otherwise of economies of scale in the Indian cement industry. The investigation is attempted through the estimation of cost-output (sales) relationships both from the ...
Production function in Indian sugar industry
(2010-03-14)
The purpose of the study is to (a) examine the degree of substitutability between labour and capital, (b) estimate returns to scale, (c) compute the factors marginal productivities and relative contribution to output and ...
Demand for money: an empirical examination of unsettled issues for India
(2010-03-19)
The paper examines the unsettled issues on the demand for money function with a particular reference to India. It uses the annual time series data for the period 1954-55 through 1982-83. A special feature of the study is ...
Production function and optimum input mix in fish farming in India
(2010-03-13)
The paper attempts to study the input-output relationship in fish farming in India through the estimation of production function and the derivation of the optimum input combination. The data used belong to a cross-section ...
Forecasting money supply using box-jenkins and other procedures
(2010-03-27)
The big provides forecasts on the money supply in India during 1993-01 through 1995-04, using the quarterly data for the period 1970-01 to 1992-04 and several alternative appropriate statistical and econometric methods. ...
Monetary policy model for India
(2010-03-13)
Based on a sample of 20 annual observations (1948-49 through 1967-68), a policy-oriented econometric model for the Indian economy with an emphasis on the monetary sector has been formulated, estimated, and analyzed. Besides ...
Location of Indian cement industry
(2010-03-13)
The paper examines four hypotheses about the location of the Indian Cement Industry, viz., (a) its location is not optimum, (b) it is not evenly distributed throughout the country, (c) its location is becoming more and ...
Growth variations across developing countries: how much and why
(2010-03-19)
The paper examines the extent and the causes of variations in economic growth across twenty-nine developing countries. The sample countries come from Asia, Africa, and South/Central America. It finds that while Brazil, ...
Role and conduct of monetary policy
(2010-03-19)
The paper contains the text of the lecture delivered by the author at a seminar organized by the Department of Economics, M.S.University, Baroda under its UGC Special Assistance Programme duri December 20-21, 1986. It ...