Food inflation in India has remained stubborn in recent years. A number of proximate factors such as increasing demand particularly arising from higher rural wages, rising agricultural cost of production, changing consumption pattern favoring protein items, increases in minimum support prices...

An estimation of the real equilibrium exchange rate for India for the period in the latter half of the 1990s using fundamental economic variables by decomposing a structural VAR vested with appropriate restrictions consistent with open economy assumptions. The model identifies the permanent...

Devoted to the analysis of housing market in India, the paper employs a special decomposition scheme for the structural VAR proposed by Blanchard and Quah to study the impact of permanent shocks to housing prices attributed to monetary variables and income growth - and, in the process, attempts...

In recent years, increasing importance of active day-to-day asset-liability management by banks and liquidity management by central banks renders that short-term seasonalities in monetary series should be studied minutely. Currency in circulation is a typical example of such a series that...

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....

In the literature, currency in circulation is typically estimated either by specifying a standard currency demand equation based on the theory of transaction or portfolio demand for money or by a univariate time series model. The paper argues that while these approaches work well for low...

Inflation in India is commonly analyzed in terms of the traditional 'monetarist' and 'structuralist' frameworks. However, these models have not been widely tested for their forecasting ability in practical policy settings. Besides, the important issue of assessment of inflationary expectations...

There is a growing concern among researchers, decision makers and management practitioners about the right approach to implement Knowledge Management (KM). Although it is difficult to classify an approach as most appropriate, adopting one makes implementation easier. Therefore, to get an...