Globalisation is likely adversely impact the traditional classes. It also threatens to destroy national market, from which stems the bargaining power of the traditional classes.In spite of this, the paper suggests that the response to globalisation in India has necessarily to be discordant. It...

Comment offrir à aux entreprises, en particulier les petites, une évaluation individualisée de leur qualité, leur permettant, d’une part, de mieux gérer leurs projets et leur développement et, d’autre part, de signaler leur qualité aux tiers, dont les banques. Le problème...

These are the page proofs of the interview of Franco Modigliani by William A. Barnett and Robert Solow. The interview was published in the journal, Macroeconomic Dynamics, in 2000. Since William Barnett is one of the two interviewers, he now is permitted, by Cambridge University Press, to make...

The classical Quadratic Programming (QP) formulation of the well-known portfolio selection problem has traditionally been regarded as cumbersome and time consuming. This paper formulates two additional models, (i) maximin, and (ii) minimization of mean absolute deviation. Data from 67 securities...

In practice, all option strategies are decided in advance, given the investor’s belief of the stock price. In this paper, instead of deciding in advance the most appropriate hedging option strategy, an LP problem is formulated, by considering all significant Greek parameters of the...

The Commission was asked in February 2001 to review the Superannuation Industry (Supervision) Act and certain other superannuation legislation. Superannuation savings are growing rapidly and now amount to more than $500 billion. Most of the workforce is covered by superannuation. The community...