This paper aims to assess the status and trends in employment achievements in the state of Odisha in India. It explores the extent to which rural development programs have responded to employment generation. This is a review of the achievements made under direct or indirect employment generation...

On a more positive note, Indian firms do have target debt ratios and they adjust towards their target faster over time due to higher speed of adjustment as the half-life (in years) for total debt ratio (1.50), long-term debt ratio (1.82), and short-term debt ratio (1.21) embellish amicable...

Market microstructure discussions include the impact of call auctions in price discovery and bringing out efficiency in the functioning of markets. We provide an application of Monte carlo simulation to improve upon the volatility estimates by using daily pre-opening auction data for over 50...

The regulatory norms for provisioning of capital against Bank’s credit exposure include the application of risk mitigants to protect the overall losses for the Bank. Credit risk mitigation (CRM) includes approaches to mitigate the credit risk to which banks are exposed. However, the use of CRM...

Growing urbanization, increasing population and increased per capita income have boosted the demand for housing in India. This empirical study gives us an explanation of how the market leverage of the real state firms in India are affected by firm specific attributes and external market or...