This article estimates two models for the takeover selection process in India by identifying discriminating variables that help delineate bidder and target firms. Both discriminant analysis and logit regression have been used for the purpose of developing the appropriate frameworks based on...

In this article, an attempt is made to build an ARIMA model to forecast exports of Indian readymade garments. The monthly data on readymade garments exports for the period April 1991 to December 2000 is used to build the model. The forecasts are obtained for the period January 2001 to December...

The main objective of this article is to study the perception of the users of cyber cafés and to understand the important factors required to manage the cafés better in a competing environment. This was pursued by interviewing 414 users, in cyber cafés spread over different parts of Delhi....

The changing business scenario worldwide has transformed the way organizations compete and survive in the global marketplace. Globalization has forced economies to re-look at their organizational structures, core competencies, leadership, culture and strategy formulation and implementation....

A deluge of tests have been conducted on asset pricing models in literature, more so on the Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM), to ascertain their validity, efficiency and efficacy in different markets in explaining asset prices. Such tests have been either individual in nature wherein any one...

With increasing doubt about the validity of the one-factor Capital Asset Pricing Model in pricing financial assets, development of newer models or extensions has become the order of the day. This paper applies one of these developments—the multi-factor Arbitrage Pricing Theory (APT) to...

The study is based on a sample of 431 respondents chosen using convenience sampling to understand the mutual fund buying behaviour of the individual investors. The article identifies the various attributes that investors consider important while investing in mutual fund. There are two underlying...