The Balanced Scorecard (BSC) was introduced to the general public by Kaplan and Norton in 1992. Over the last two decades, it has evolved from an improved Performance Measurement System to a Comprehensive Performance Management System. Its use has spread globally and it has become an important...

Prediction of price fluctuations has always been interesting for academicians, practitioners and investors. However, price fluctuations can never be exactly predicted, but some trends can be drawn in price fluctuations. The first landmark in stock pricing was Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM)...

The Government of India introduced Reverse Mortgage (RM) scheme in 2007 as a social security scheme which renders an opportunity for aging India to convert vast illiquid housing assets into regular cash streams. This paper makes an attempt to examine whether Indian elderly homeowners from metro...

The SPS Agreement in the WTO gives legal validity to the CODEX standards. Since the developed countries have been at the forefront of setting the food standards in the CODEX, the developing countries have been increasingly engaged in the CODEX, and also in the WTO, with an objective to increase...

A sharp debate in the context of life cycle literature is whether older homeowners look at their housing wealth as a means to satisfy post-retirement income needs. Little empirical evidence exists in the Indian context which investigates whether Indian older homeowners save or dissave home...

This paper compares the performances of three algorithms with different service broker policies, namely, Round Robin, Equally Spread Current Execution(ESCE), and Throttled Load Balancing. CloudSim and CloudSim-based tool are used for simulation. The results reveal that Throttled load balancing...