Browsing Working Papers by Author "Gupta, G. S."

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    • Arima model for and forecaste on tea production in India 

      Gupta, G. S. (2010-03-25)
      The paper explains the autoregressive integrated moving average (ARIMA) (Box-Jenkins) model in detail, develops an ARIMA model for tea production in India using monthly data for the period Jan. 1979 through July 1991, and ...

    • Behaviour of excess stock return around earnings announcement day: A test of the efficiency of Kuala Lumpur stock exchange 

      Sanda, Ahmadu Umaru; Jili, Ang; Gupta, G. S. (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 1998-11-01)
      This study is concerned with analyzing stock returns around periods of earnings announcements. Three hundred and sixty-four earnings announcement dates (events) were obtained from the annual earnings announcements of 91 ...

    • Corporate takeovers in Malaysia: Discriminant analysis for bidder and target firms 

      Ali, Ruhani; Gupta, G. S. (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 1998-11-01)
      The paper looks into 144 non-financial firms in Malaysia for period 1980-1993, which includes bidders, targets, control bidders and control targets. A set of five economic/financial variables has been identified to ...

    • Demand for money: an empirical examination of unsettled issues for India 

      Gupta, G. S. (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 ...

    • Dividend behavior in Malaysia 

      Sing, Lok Kong; Gupta, G. S. (2010-03-31)
      The paper estimates the dividend behaviour model for Malaysia using the annual time series data for the period 1983 to 1992, and the cross-section data for the 23 selected firms representing various sectors of the economy. ...

    • Economics of scale in the Indian cement industry 

      Gupta, G. S. (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 ...

    • Forecasting money supply using box-jenkins and other procedures 

      Gupta, G. S. (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. ...

    • Growth variations across developing countries: how much and why 

      Gupta, G. S. (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, ...

    • Income and price elasticities in India's trade 

      Gupta, G. S.; Keshava, H. (2010-03-29)
      The paper estimates the export and import function for India both at the aggregate (rest of the world) as well as the important individual country levels, using annual time series data for the period 1960-61 through 1990-91. ...

    • Income inequality across nations over time, how much and why? 

      Gupta, G. S.; Singh, Ram D. (2010-03-13)
      The paper aims at the (a) measurement of the extent of income inequality across countries, (b) measurement of the change in income inequality over the last decade, (c) examination of the factors responsible for the income ...

    • Lagged variable models and their estimation 

      Gupta, G. S.; Chawle, Deepak (2010-03-28)
      The paper discusses the reasons for hypothesizing various kinds of lagged variable models, their characteristics and the appropriate methods for estimating them. In particular, the distributed lag model, the partial ...

    • Location of Indian cement industry 

      Gupta, G. S.; Patel, Kirit (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 ...

    • Macro economic theory and policy: a perspective 

      Gupta, G. S. (2010-07-27)
      The paper provides a brief account of the scope and developments in macro economic theory and policy. In particular, it highlights the significant determinants of economic well-being and of the effectiveness of economic ...

    • Monetary policy model for India 

      Gupta, G. S. (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 ...

    • Motivation and outcome of Malaysian take-overs: an international perspective 

      Ali, Ruhani; Gupta, G. S. (2009-12-12)
      This paper examines the potential motives and effects of corporate takeovers that occurred in Malaysia for period 1980-1993. Mueller s (1980) methodology which has been adopted in Australia, U.S, U.K, and five European ...

    • Note on forecasting techniques 

      Gupta, G. S. (2010-03-13)
      Planning is gaining popularity at all levels of human organization: individual or personal, firm, industry and the government. Further, a successful planning at any level entails three things; (a) Passive forecasts, (b) ...

    • Price Policy and Income of the Farmers in India 

      Gupta, G. S. (2012-09-27)

    • Privatisation: Theory Practice and Issues 

      Gupta, G. S. (2012-10-01)

    • Privatisation: theory practices and issues 

      Gupta, G. S. (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 1997-03-01)
      The paper discusses the various forms of privatisation, its rationale, practices in India and abroad, and the issues facing the privatisation programme. It concludes that while privatisation programme is not easy to design ...

    • Production function and optimum input mix in fish farming in India 

      Gupta, G. S. (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 ...