Loss Functions in Financial Sector: An Overview

Determinants of Financial Literacy and Use of Financial Services: An Empirical Study amongst the Unorganized Sector Workers in Indian Scenario

The present paper aims to identify the effect of demographic and socio-economic variables on financial literacy and its impact on the use of financial services. For this study, primary data are collected from 400 unorganized sector workers of Paschim Medinipur district, also an economically development lagger in the state of West Bengal of India. The logit regression result shows that the main ...

An Overview of the Indian Pharmaceutical Sector

Over the past 40 years or so the Indian pharmaceutical sector witnessed rapid growth and transformation. From a mere volume of just Rs. 10 core in 1947, the industry registered a sales turnover of about US $ 5.5 billion in 2004 with an annual growth rate of about 17%. The flexible provisions of the Patent Act of 1970 and other supportive policies of the Government of India played an instrumenta...

Econometric Analysis of Financial Derivatives: An Overview

Duisenberg school of finance is a collaboration of the Dutch financial sector and universities, with the ambition to support innovative research and offer top quality academic education in core areas of finance. support and encouragement, and the referees for their timely and very helpful comments and suggestions on the papers comprising the special issue. Abstract One of the fastest growing ar...

1 Financial and Economic Networks: An Overview

Financial Literacy around the World: an Overview.

In an increasingly risky and globalized marketplace, people must be able to make well-informed financial decisions. Yet new international research demonstrates that financial illiteracy is widespread when financial markets are well developed as in Germany, the Netherlands, Sweden, Japan, Italy, New Zealand, and the United States, or when they are changing rapidly as in Russia. Further, across t...