The rollout of new fixed network infrastructures requires significant capital investments and often a long payback period. To increase the net present value and to limit capital requirements a good rollout strategy is crucial. Cherry picking techniques will select the best areas, based on cost efficiency and highest average return per user, and will only install the new network technology in th...

The lack of functional ankle musculature in lower limb amputees contributes to the reduced prosthetic ankle push-off, compensations at other joints and more energetically costly gait commonly observed in comparison to non-amputees. A variety of energy storing and return prosthetic feet have been developed to address these issues but have not been shown to sufficiently improve amputee biomechani...

ing earnings for shareholders. Return on equity measures net income less preferred dividends against total stockholder’s equity. The three primary drivers of ROE are better sales (or turnover), greater margins and higher debt levels, each of which can lead to a higher ROE. Although return on equity is a useful tool, it does not tell you what factors are helping or hurting the company’s performa...

We measure net arbitrage trading by the difference between abnormal hedge fund equity holdings and abnormal short interest on a stock. In the cross section, net arbitrage trading strongly predicts future stock returns. This predictability is not due to temporary price pressure, cannot be produced using total institutional holdings, but is consistent with information advantage and copycat tradin...

A classical problem, coming up frequently in practical business, is the valuation of future cash flows which are somewhat risky. By the term “risky” we mean that the payment is not of a deterministic nature; rather there is some uncertainty on the amount of the future cash flows. Of course, in real life virtually everything happening in the future contains some elements of riskiness. As a first...

The Financial sector improves to introduce by the Indian Government during the early 1990s and the key parameters like globalisation and post -liberalisation of the world economy, Indian banking has begun to change itself. It is experiencing scenario to change known as ‘consolidation’ of Indian banking. In this paper interpret the financial performance of banking sector pre and post -merger the...