Measurement of Gross Value Added (GVA) in the banking sector is still a debatable and unresolved issue. Current proposals for measuring GVA are the following: SNA93's FISIM approach; user cost of money approach promoted by a set of researchers led by Barnett (1978) and Fixler (1993); margin...

The paper postulates that in an environment of continuous financial reforms, the lending rate stickiness in an economy could be changing over the period. The financial reforms (of which deregulation of interest rates formed a major part) during the 1990s and the early 2000s and the changing role...

The present paper develops an outlier model suitable for problems wherein identification of outliers is essential and, applied areas of statistics are abound with such examples. One of the peculiarities of outliers in survey sampling is that there could be observed as well as unobserved...