This paper examines the profit testing of life insurance companies that issue participating policies, type B and type A … stochastic and modeled by normal or variance gamma distributions. We rely on the stochastic profit testing techniques introduced … the profit testing indicators. We show that the variance gamma model results in more conservative predictions - in a …

This paper presents a conceptual framework for explaining credit union (CU) loan delinquency and profitability in …

study reveals that the bank-specific factors are the most influential on banks’ profitability, and to a lesser extent the …

rate of profit and its components - profit share, capacity utilization rate, and capacity-capital ratio - on investment …. Our results show that: (a) the rate of profit has both short and long run positive impacts on investment; (b) the profit …

Using aggregate data from the Annual Survey of Industries, we analyze profitability in India's organized manufacturing …-97, and 2001-02 to 2007-08. All other short run periods have witnessed declining profitability. Profit rate decomposition … sector from 1982-83 to 2012-13. Over the whole period of analysis, the rate of profit grew at about 1 percent per annum …

Access to safe water is necessary for lives and livelihoods. In India, a mid-term assessment reveals that the country … factors constrain access to safe drinking water and proper sanitation in India for both the urban and rural poor, and that …

It is often assumed that recent success in the high-technology software industry will lead India's development. However … development pattern in India. …

communication technology (ICT) use for broad-based development and economic growth in India. It will examine the role of …

reference to China and India, with their very distinctive public policy approaches. Much of the economics literature either does …