Two players are endowed with resources for setting up N locations on K identical circles, with N greater than K which is greater or equal 1. The players alternately choose these locations (possibly in batches of more than one in each round) in order to secure the area closer to their locations...

Two firms selling a homogenous product to two types of buyers are involved in a sequential pricing game with zero costs. The pricing strategy available involves a fixed price and a royalty. It is shown that there exists a unique subgame perfect equilibrium with positive profits to both firms if...

Over the last few months of 2011 Indian economy has been showing signs of weakness. The Report of Government of India on external debt however claims that India's external debt position is steadily improving on account of prudent management. But with a thorough study of the macroeconomic...

Several theories like optimal trading range hypothesis, liquidity hypothesis, signaling hypothesis have been advanced in relation to this non-economic corporate event. But still there is need to study the investors' optimizing behavior after stock split. With this focus on optimization of the...

Purpose: The purpose of the study is to analyze motivation behind payment of cash dividend by the firms in India in presence of tax provision that discourages payment of dividend by imposing tax on firms at the time of distribution.Design/methodology/approach First, consistent with Jensen's...

World has been witnessing financial crisis, emanating from the financial sector every now and then. Failed banks of bankrupt financial firms are being regularly bailed out, creating moral hazard problem and adversely affecting the health of the entire financial sector of the globe. This paper...

There are three major theories in the Corporate Finance literature, namely, Trade-off theory, Agency Cost theory and Pecking-Order theory that highlight different determinants of corporate capital structure. In an attempt to study the determinants of capital structure in Indian scenario and to...

The small business finance is characterized by the existence of formal and informal credit market. This paper looks at the operation of formal and informal credit market in terms of a model. It first considers the hierarchical structure of the formal lending sector and shows emergence of delay...

The telecommunication firms operate on the basis of acquisition of airwave space, which is licensed by the government. The usual policy practice in this regard is ascending auction that ensures maximization of revenue for the government. The established view in the literature is that the...

Text book analysis shows that there is no giffen input in contrast to existence of giffen good in consumer's case. This paper shows that while this result holds for perfect competiton and monopoly, in the context of Cournot model there can be giffen input