There are three major theories in the Corporate Finance literature, namely, Trade-off theory, Agency Cost theory and Pecking-Order theory that highlight different determinants of corporate capital structure. In an attempt to study the determinants of capital structure in Indian scenario and to...

The small business finance is characterized by the existence of formal and informal credit market. This paper looks at the operation of formal and informal credit market in terms of a model. It first considers the hierarchical structure of the formal lending sector and shows emergence of delay...

The telecommunication firms operate on the basis of acquisition of airwave space, which is licensed by the government. The usual policy practice in this regard is ascending auction that ensures maximization of revenue for the government. The established view in the literature is that the...

Text book analysis shows that there is no giffen input in contrast to existence of giffen good in consumer's case. This paper shows that while this result holds for perfect competiton and monopoly, in the context of Cournot model there can be giffen input

As an economy treads along a higher growth path, some sections of people enjoy more than proportionate rise in income. This increase in prosperity changes the demand pattern in the economy and by the market mechanism, production of goods used by the prospering sections goes up. As requirements...

Two players are endowed with resources for setting up N locations on K identical circles, with N K= 1. The players alternately choose these locations (possibly in batches of more than one in each round) in order to secure the area closer to their locations than that of their rival's. They face...