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Forecast accuracy along booking profile in the national railways of an emerging Asian economy: comparison of different techniques
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2014)The National Railways of an Emerging Asian Economy (NREAE), the second largest railway network in the world, is facing growing challenges from low fare airlines. To combat these challenges, NREAE has to adopt revenue ... -
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. ... -
Foreign R&D Centres in India: An Analysis of their Size, Structure and Implications
(2013-11-20)The study measures the contribution of MNCs to the generation of innovations from India. The focus is on innovations that are carried out in foreign R&D Centres. After having mapped out the size of this sector, the study ... -
Forest based industry and forest land management in India
(2010-07-27)The paper highlights that land degradation in India has been approaching a crisis level in spite of repeated emphasis on wasteland development and existence of apex level organisations for that purpose. One reason has been ... -
Forestry development projects in India: Finance and bankability
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Formal vis-a-vis informal credit supply sources in tribal areas: a case of Dharampur taluka
(2010-03-13)This paper first discusses the main features and operations of both the sources of credit supply in Dharampur. It then presents a framework that conceptualizes the substitution process from the standpoint of the inhabitants ... -
Format choice of food and grocery retailers
(2010-04-03)Format choice is recognized as a cognitive process. Like any other purchasing decision format choice also is an information processing behavior. A store is chosen based on the confidence that the customer has regarding the ... -
Formats for reply coupons in advertisements
(2010-03-13)Reply coupons and inquires in advertisements are ways devised by advertisers to encourage readers to act quickly on the newly acquired information or desire. The paper presents a comprehensive list of formats that can be ... -
Formulating public policy for distribution of essential goods: an analytical approach
(2010-03-21)Public Policy concerning distribution of essential goods of mass consumption has assumed critical importance in several developing countries. In India, such policies have generally been reactive, in response to exigencies ... -
Formulation of district credit plans by commercial banks: some observations
(2010-03-22)The paper briefly reviews the process of preparation of the district credit plans and the deficiencies of these plans from the view point of their implementation. To provide more insights into the problems in implementing ... -
Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid: An Alternate Perspective
(2009-08-03)The Bottom of the Pyramid (BOP) has emerged as one of the dominant ideas in business. Cognizant of the overwhelming attention BOP has attracted and its potential impact on the billions of the poor and on managerial practices, ... -
Founder culture in organizations its impact on organizational growth, dynamism and innovativeness
(2010-03-21)Organizational culture has recently emerged as one of the prominent focuses of organization research. This is partly because of the disillusionment with the research on the more ‘objective’ phenomena such as structure and ... -
Four factor model in Indian equities market
(2013-11-26)We compute the Fama-French and momentum factor returns for the Indian equity market or the 1993-2012 period using data from CMIE Prowess. We di er from the previous studies n several signi cant ways. First, we cover a ... -
Fourier representation of ambient temperature and duration of sunshine
(2010-03-27)While constructing a transient thermal model of solar cooker, a need was felt for analytic expressions for ambient temperature and sunshine duration. This paper, therefore, presents the Fourier analysis of ambient temperature ... -
Fourier representation of ambient temperature and solar radiation
(2010-03-27)This paper contains fourier representation of ambient temperature and global solar radiation for Ahmedabad, Bhavnagar, Bombay and Jodhpur. The results may be useful for those working on solar thermal appliances, crop growth ... -
Fourier representation of ambient temperature and solar radiation for eighteen stations in India
(2010-04-05)Analytic expressing for solar radiation and ambient temperature are needed by those working on green house design, solar appliances and crop wale relationship. This paper contains such expressions for 18 stations in India. -
Fourier Representation of Climatic Data of Kothara-Kutch
(2009-09-02)Fourier series representations of some climatic variables were developed using data from the site of an experimental greenhouse at Kothara (Kutch). Hourly data was averaged over a month to yield a profile of an ... -
Fractional differencing: (in)stability of spectral structure and risk measures of financial networks
(Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2020-07-01)Computation of spectral structure and risk measures from networks of multivariate financial time series data has been at the forefront of the statistical finance literature for a long time. A standard mode of analysis is ... -
Framework for a national wage policy
(2010-03-13)The conflicting considerations of the desirability of raising the levels of living of workers and the need for capital formation and price stability have rendered it difficult for the policy makers in India to formulate a ... -
A framework for analysing-consumer orientation of biotechnologist
(2010-03-26)Analysis of the reasons for product success or failure showed that the major factor was a poor understanding of consumer needs by the people involved in the product development. In other words lack of consumer orientation ...