Browsing Working Papers by Author "Misra, P. N."

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    • Behaviour of firms subject to imperfect markets 

      Misra, P. N. (2010-03-13)
      Survey of available theories in economic literature would reveal that analysis of a firm's behavior is performed, either, under the assumption of perfect competition in factor as well as output markets or by letting ...

    • Choice of estimated econometric models 

      Misra, P. N. (2010-03-13)
      One of the problems faced by researchers in the field of quantitative economics relates to choice of appropriate functional forms from amongst many that can be estimated on the basis of available data on a given set of ...

    • Econometric approach to evolve viable cattle development financing schemes 

      Misra, P. N.; Srivastava, Uma Kant (2010-03-14)
      This paper attempts to a) arrive at estimates of marketed surplus of milk, b) to simplify the computational methods for pooling cross section and time series data, and c) to determine the terms of repayment of loans ...

    • Efficiency of Several generalised least squares estimators 

      Misra, P. N. (2010-03-13)
      Econometric theory, as developed till today includes a number of estimation procedures whose small and large sample properties have been analysed at different places by different authors. Looking at these works one can ...

    • Infrastructural needs of small scale industry in Gujarat 

      Misra, P. N. (2010-03-13)
      This paper spells out a case for better planning of relevant infrastructural facilities for small industries in general. Thereafter we discuss birth, death and sickness rates in Gujarat along with problems encountered by ...

    • On the estimation of elasticity in economics 

      DasGupta, A.; Misra, P. N. (1984-12-01)
      For the measurement of elasticity, given two observation of a bivariate relationship, the arc elasticity formula has been traditionally used by economists and statisticians. However, no proper statistical justification for ...

    • Perfect least squares estimator 

      Misra, P. N.; Handa, Puneet (2010-03-28)
      This paper makes an attempt to analyse the behaviour of regional income inequalities and capital inequalities in India. It also seeks to examine the relationship between the trend in regional income inequality and regional ...

    • Performance evaluation of sales tax administration: a case study of Gujarat, India 

      Misra, P. N.; Jayaraman, T. K. (2010-03-25)
      This paper provides a methodology of evaluating performance of tax administration on the basis of available data on effort and achievement variables over a number of years. A case study of sales tax administration in Gujarat ...

    • Quantification of distributional impact of Government expenditure on selected social services 

      Misra, P. N. (2010-03-13)
      This paper deals with empirical quantification of distributional impact of government expenditure on selected social services like education, health, medical and family planning at state level. The distributional impact ...

    • Some implications of structural changes within the sample 

      Misra, P. N. (2010-03-13)
      An implicit assumption underlying least squares estimation procedure is that the unknown coefficient remain invariant over sample observations. In actual practice, however, one tends to use larger and larger numbers of ...

    • Tax functions under imperfect markets 

      Misra, P. N. (2010-03-14)
      This paper provides tax functions when product and input markets are subject to imperfection simultaneously. These functions are estimated for the industrial sector of the Indian economy. It comes out clearly that such ...

    • Unwanted consequences of large sample size in econometric estimation 

      Misra, P. N. (2010-03-21)
      This paper start with the problem of analyzing unwanted consequences of large sample size in econometric estimation and find that the problem can be framed as special case to general problem of estimating a model subject ...