We examine how the impact on women empowerment varies with respect to the location and type of group linkage of the respondent. Using household survey data from five states in India, we correct for selection bias to estimate a structural equation model. Our results reveal that in the southern...

Internet banking provides huge benefits to banks' in cost savings, improved customer relationships and differentiating their offerings from competitors. Although the Internet banking services were introduced in India for more than a decade ago, the adoption among the bank customers is still very...

In this research paper the methodological development of a new model, namely SQM-HEI (Service Quality Measurement in Higher Education in India) for the measurement of service quality in higher educational institutions is developed. Three dimensions are arrived namely Teaching Methodology(TM),...

This paper studies what can be learned from pairwise stable networks. I specify the marginal utility of a pair forming a link as a function of individual-level unobserved heterogeneity as well as pair level observed characteristics. I derive a tetrad-level utility inequality from pairwise...

Momentum strategies have drawn great attention in investment management literature over last two decades. In this paper we examine three important propositions in Indian context (1) Do momentum profits persist for long time periods?, (2) Can these momentum profits be absorbed by risk models?,...

Seasonal variation and calendar anomalies are known phenomena in equity markets worldwide. Many researchers have studied day-of-the-month, day-of-the-week, month-of-the-year, tax loss hypothesis and SAD cycle in equity markets across countries. There has been many evidences of calendar anomalies...

Although fiscal imbalance and its adverse effects on macro economic equilibrium in India have been receiving wide attention, the issue at States' level has not so far been adequately analyzed. In many respects, fiscal situation in States is more critical than that at the Centre as States have...

The objective of this study is to examine the performance of default prediction model: the Z-score model using discriminant analysis, and to propose a new prediction model on a data set of 30 defaulted and 30 solvent companies. Financial ratios obtained from corporate balance sheets are used as...

Though a large number of structural macroeconometric models have been estimated for India, the fact that all these are based on annual data limit their usefulness for short-term policy analysis, particularly in volatile periods of the type seen during last few quarters. Therefore the present...

Agricultural and food system transformation helps increase farm productivity and encourages farmers to participate in updated value chains, adopt newer technologies, thereby helping farmers transform their livelihoods in a sustainable manner. Relatedly, value chain innovations depend on multiple...