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PLC: State of the art review
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 1984-11-01)
Two decates of discussion has still to clear the fog surrounding the validity of the PLC concept. This paper review available evidence, and attempts to identity some of the issues that PLC researchers need to address. ...
Market - Wide commonalities in corporate earnings and significance tests of accounting beta
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 1988-05-01)
Financial theorists have emphasized for years the importance of expectational variables in the valuation of shares. The price of share is determined primarily by investors current expectations about the firm's future ...
Household energy behaviour and urban development: The case of Ahmedabad
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 1984-12-01)
Energy is a key input to meet the basic needs of human beings like food, clothing and shelter. Household energy behaviour needs to be understood for ensuring individual and social well being. The urban household energy use ...
Considerations in evolving a comprehensive leasing policy for inland waterbodies for fish production
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 1987-09-01)
Inland fishery resources can be classified in terms of river, fresh water ponds, reserveirs and brackish- water bodies(ponds for culture, farms for capture/ filteration, lakes, swamps and estuaries). (sea figure-1) Some ...
Individual taxation: A proposal for reform
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 1985-06-01)
Inflation affects real income tax liabilities in two ways. First, inflation erodes the value of fixed rupee amounts ( for example, ceiling on doductions, nil tax income slab, etc.) and second, in a progressive tax system, ...
Central excise revenues from major commodities and the sources of their growth
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 1988-09-01)
Indirect taxes are the mainstay of India's tax system, currently accounting for about 86% of the total tax collections.The major indirect taxes are: central excise duty, customs duty, sales tax, state excise duty, vehicle ...
Fair allocations and distortion of utilities: A note
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 1989-01-01)
Given two agents with von neumann- morgenstern utilities who wish to divide n commodities, consider the two- person non- cooperative game with strategies consisting of concave, increasing von neumann- Morenstern utility ...
Coalitional fairness and distortion of utilities
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 1989-01-01)
Given a finite number of agents with utilities who wish to divide a finite number of commodities, consider the non- cooperative game with strategies consisting of concave, increasing utility functions and whose outcomes ...
Where utility functions do not exist: A note on lexicographic orders
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 1989-08-01)
There seems to be some amount of confusion in the finance text books regarding the conditions under which an individual's preferences can be represented by a utility function. Fama and Miller, for example, assert that two ...
Motives, abilities and attitudes of an entrepreneur - Some propositions
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 1989-08-01)
In this paper, we have conceptualized the entrepreneurial process as comprising of three stages- the decision to become an entrepreneur, which field to be an entrepreneur in, and the actual creation of an organization.
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