The deregulation of energy markets in general, and the electricity and gas markets in particular, over the last two decades has created a large number of new challenges and opportunities for companies in this sector, as well as for companies who might diversify into the sector. Thirty years back, there were few who believed or even discussed the possibility of a large-scale deregulation of the ...

Combating with immense competition now a day‟s banks are focusing upon customer satisfaction rather than merely rendering their services in the Indian banking industry. Due to the tough competition in banking sector, paradigm changes are seen in this sector. Various innovations are witnessed in this field, because banking sector is adopting innovative ways to improve their services & to win the...

The inter-sector study shows index performance on a sector-by-sector basis was heavily impacted by the country which closed just prior to its own market’s open as we expect from the broad index. This study also found the influence of a country’s lagged price movements on its own market varied from one country to another and from sector-to-sector. The investigation into industry specific indexes...

ii ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS The authors would like to thank Joyashree Roy, Ernst Worrell, Puran Mongia, and Marta Khrushch for their valuable assistance and comments on previous drafts of this paper. Abstract Historical estimates of productivity growth in India's pulp and paper sector vary from indicating an improvement to a decline in the sector's productivity. The variance may be traced to the time p...

Recent years have brought many changes in the U.S. economy. The rapid development of telecommunications and the Internet are only two examples of an incredible continuing evolution and progressively changing business environment. Correspondingly, economists and statisticians are improving their tools for measuring the economy. One basic tool is the classification of businesses by industry. Sinc...

The electricity sectors in India have been undergoing signifi cant reforms since nineties. The initial status of the electricity sector when reform of the industry was initiated was very similar across all states in India. The state electricity boards prior to reform were vertically integrated public utilities, the distribution companies had signifi cant technical and commercial losses and the ...

This paper tackles two issues: (1) lead and lag relationship among regions and the role of the industry mix effect to this phenomenon are explored; (2) concurrent and lagged effects of the industry mix on the regional economic fluctuations are measured explicitly with the national shock identified from the principal components method. The empirical analysis focuses on five Midwest states. The f...