Since the global financial crisis, the Global Financial Safety Net (GFSN), traditionally consisting mainly of countries' own foreign exchange reserves with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) acting as a backstop, has expanded significantly with the continued accumulation of reserves, the...

In this report, three methodological approaches are applied to assess the size of the International Monetary Fund: benchmarking Fund resources against a number of relevant global economic and financial indicators; an extrapolation of past and current IMF programme characteristics; and a shock...

The Indian Economic Surveys 2018-19 and 2019-20 views the economy in either a virtuous or a vicious cycle of Savings, investment & export with investment and export as the key drivers of the cycles. The current paper focuses on the dilemma of choosing between the two alternatives, i.e., export...

The role of government in Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) and governance with respect to the same need to be re-defined as M&A gains cutting edge phenomena. The paper intends to review, summarize and discuss various institutional laws regarding mergers and acquisitions (M&A) in India and thereby...

In this case study, we trace the journey of Masayoshi Son, towards his grand vision of taming the global information revolution, using Softbank Group (SBG). We divide this journey into three chapters. In the first chapter, we delve into his inspiration. In the next chapter, we see the birth of...

Since the global financial crisis, the Global Financial Safety Net (GFSN), traditionally consisting mainly of countries' own foreign exchange reserves with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) acting as a backstop, has expanded significantly with the continued accumulation of reserves, the...

The US dollar is widely used in international trade and finance. It is the currency of choice for cross-border bank lending and international debt issuance, particularly for emerging market firms. It is also the dominant invoicing currency for trade transactions between non-US countries. Its...

International Journal of Consumer Studies (IJCS) has gradually evolved into a journal of international repute that publishes progressive and tested theories on a range of topics related to consumer research. After two decades in the 21st century, this article takes stock of the advances...

In this article, we discuss how the Cruise Industry had to voluntarily shut-down due to the outbreak of COVIDPandemic. We begin by studying the complex logistics the cruise-liners had to employ to disembark redundant crew members to various ports around the world. Then we highlight the dilemma...

The current discourse delves into the effectiveness of h-index1 as an author level metric. It further reviews and explains the algorithmic complexity of calculating h-index through algebraic method. To conduct the algebraic analysis propositional algebra, algorithm and coding techniques have...