In the current decade, there has been a tremendous growth of ICT & ITES industry worldwide and India has an impressive presence in the world trade of ICT & ITES. Indian ICT industry is a fast growing industry in terms of its annual growth in production, domestic market share, export, offshore...

Purpose This study aims to identify the benefits and costs of participation in small group consumption communities (SGCCs), and understand how benefits and costs experienced in these communities differ from those experienced in large group consumption communities (LGCCs)....

Advertising communications are one way, they are also impersonal and receivers are not obliged to listen or even pretend to as they would in a personal exchange. They are free to ignore the message, remember it, or forget it as they please. This makes it imperative for advertisers to create...

Trading volume and order flow have both been closely associated with informed trader activity in the market microstructure literature. Using theory that explains regular intraday patterns in trading data, we transform these two variables into proxies for private information and examine their...

From Prof Steve Thomas and Mr Richard A. Werner.Sir, Mervyn King deserves praise for recognising that things could turn ugly when the housing bubble bursts ("King links rises in rates to fears on house prices", July 1). But is his recommended plan of action suitable - namely to raise interest...

This paper presents and implements a number of tests for non-linear dependence and a test for chaos using transactions prices on three LIFFE futures contracts: the Short Sterling interest rate contract, the Long Gilt government bond contract, and the FTSE 100 stock index futures contract. While...