This paper describes the place of econometrics in undergraduate economics curricula in all American colleges and universities listed in US News and World Report “2010 Best Colleges” guide that offer economics majors. Data come from online catalogs, departmental web sites, and online course...

Futures market performs an important function which is to provide effective hedging besides price discovery at distant future date to the market participants. The hedging effectiveness of the futures contract shows its utility in reducing the amount of risk. We estimated the effective hedge...

Change management, which falls within the broader theoretical framework of social change, has been a perennially popular topic in the organizational effectiveness and management literature. Identifying the need for organization-wide change, and leading organizations through that change is widely...

The present paper deals with the public and private sector partnership in infrastructure in India. The Indian infrastructure sector is one of the largest sectors. This paper has been divided into eight major segments namely introduction, meaning of public private partnership, infrastructure...

The SFCs are playing a key role in the development of small and medium enterprises in the respective states in tandem with the national priorities. During the last decade SFCs assistance to business enterprises has undergone a considerable acceleration. The present paper is based on the analysis...

The present paper is an attempt to find out the relationship between company characteristics and dividend policy in Indian corporate sector. For this purpose a sample of 374 companies listed on the Bombay Stock Exchange for the period from 1992-2007 has been analyzed and found that lagged tax...

This paper proposes an interpretation theoretical model of the Aufbau of Rudolf Carnap, this interpretation contributes to upgrade the project original Carnapian, in the sense of conferring to the constitutional program of construction logical, less committed analytic equipment with an ontology...

Leadership style and organizational performance have been researched extensively. However, the literature has a limited number of studies concerning organizational performance of small and medium businesses, even less research on the impact on organizational performance of Theory X and Theory Y...

Islamic banking in Pakistan has completed one decade of operations in Pakistan and now there are 5 full-fledged Islamic banks and more than 15 conventional banks with Islamic banking windows. Due to the consistent double digit growth in total assets, the market share had steadily risen to 7% by...

Sandy struck a strategically important city in a strategically important country within days of a strategically important election. Climate justice has many synergistic and sometimes competing dimensions. Irrespective of the degree to which climate change contributes to any given weather event,...