The present paper is aimed at studying the nature of the causal relationship between stock prices and macroeconomic variables in India, if any such relationship exists. For this purpose the techniques of unit– root tests, cointegration and the Granger causality test have been applied between the NSE Index ‘Nifty’ and the macroeconomic variables, viz., Real effective economic rate (REER), Foreig...

W are the drivers of retailer pricing tactics over time? Based on multivariate time-series analysis of two rich data sets, we quantify the relative importance of competitive retailer prices, pricing history, brand demand, wholesale prices, and retailer category-management considerations as drivers of retail prices. Interestingly, competitive retailer prices account for less than 10% of the over...

This paper investigates the damage impact of 1959 Ise Bay Typhoon on firm survival and survivor performance in Nagoya City, Japan. We combine firm-level data with a local proxy storm surge-induced flooding. find that firms retail wholesale were less those manufacturing more likely to survive after being There was some evidence spillover effects from nearby regions exit. Surviving heterogeneous ...

We examine the influence of strategic choice on working capital configurations and observe how the relationship between working capital ratio and operational performance differs depending on strategy. By clustering the strategic factors of the wholesale and retail industry, we find three categories of strategies: terminal market strategy, middle market strategy, and hybrid strategy. Using the p...

This research investigates relationships among IT investment, inventory performance, and financial performance to find the empirical evidence for the theory that operational excellence in inventory management and relevant IT investment enhance profitability in the long run. Using ANOVA, post hoc analysis, and hierarchical regression, we analyze longitudinal data at the industry group level (man...

In this paper, we study the empirical relationship between credit funding sources and the financial vulnerability of the Colombian banking system. We propose a statistical model to measure and predict banking fragility episodes associated with credit funding sources classified into retail deposits and wholesale funds. We compute the probability of financial fragility for both the aggregated ban...

The business literature and recent descriptive evidence show that exporting firms typically require the help of foreign trade intermediaries or need to set up own foreign wholesale affiliates. In contrast, conventional trade theory models assume that producers can directly access foreign consumers. This paper introduces intermediaries in an international trade model where producers differ with ...

Results The data show that in Cyprus, Denmark, Finland, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden and the UK wholesale remuneration is negotiated between manufacturers and wholesalers. In the remaining countries, a maximum allowed wholesale remuneration is regulated on a legal basis, at least for reimbursable medicines. In these countries, wholesale remuneration generally depends on the price of the medi...

Information technology and data architecture always evolve to meet the shifting trends in business enterprise. Over the last twenty-five years, information technology met the information demands of business through the wholesale adoption of the Relational Database, followed by its natural progression into the Data Warehouse. There are growing demands for a new type of data architecture – one th...