The study is an attempt to analyse the impact of specific sources of finance on firms' export performance by investigating empirically the SME exporters' preferred mode of financing their various export operations and linking it with their export profitability. Based on the findings it is...

Retail in India has a good growth potential but this sector is the least evolved with the growth of organized retail being substantially slow. In such a scenario, the government of India in early 2013 allowed 51 percent FDI in multi-brand retail. FDI plays an important role in the economic...

Exporting plays a crucial role in accelerating the growth and profitability of firms. It enables them to achieve sustained competitive advantages. Interest in exporting is driven by the changing global economic scenario, liberalization, and emerging global competition. These reasons have...

International Financial Services Centre (IFSC) seeks to bring to the Indian shores, those financial services transactions that are currently carried on outside India by overseas financial institutions, Indian financial institutions/entities and overseas branches/subsidiaries of Indian financial...

Transfer pricing remains an inevitable tool for MNCs to carry out intra-company transactions. From the literature, misuse of transfer pricing has been observed with respect to advertisement, marketing and promotion (AMP). This research paper attempts to demonstrate the instances wherein abuse of...

Several countries in Asia and Middle East established new age International Financial Centres e.g. Singapore, Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Qatar to name a few. India, which is one of the largest and fastest growing major economies in the world, established its maiden International Financial Services Centre...

Returns depend upon decisions of investors, but investors biases challenge the ability to take rational decisions. Study of biases and their relationships with personality traits helps to understand how biases originate, the way in which they possibly effect investors, and which personality...

It is well known fact that all good things, as also bad things, come to an end and business cycles pass through good and bad economic times. Economically 2010 was a year of transition from economic recession to recovery. Economies were improving in some countries and industries were showing...

Medical tourism is one of the major sectors amongst the trade in services that has been growing significantly the world over particularly with the establishment of General Agreement of Trade in Services (GATS) under WTO. This sector falls under Mode II - known as “Consumption Abroad” of...