The paper aims to investigate the differential impact of increased financial development on industrial output, across state and industry categories. Using an unbalanced panel of 15 Indian states, 22 industries at the 2-digit level, and an 11-year period spanning 1992-2002, the paper's most novel...

The paper investigates the patterns of variations in Indian industrial performance at both industry and state levels. Applying stochastic frontier analysis to an unbalanced panel of 15 Indian states, 22 industries at the 2-digit level, and an 11-year period spanning 1992-2002; the paper estimates,...

This paper primarily investigates the issue of labour welfare in Indian industries, and seeks to make a contribution to the debate on labour reforms currently underway in India. It investigates the relative importance of technical change, elasticities of substitution, and labour regulations for...

In the present communication, the conditional Tsallis and Kapur entropies have been studied for their monotonic behaviour. Further, the results on the convolutions of Tsallis and Renyi entropies have been provided.

In this paper we compare the residual lifetime of a used coherent system of age t0 with the lifetime of the similar coherent system made up of used components of age t. Here ‘similar’ means that the system has the same structure and the component lifetimes have the same dependence (joint...