This study addresses problem of predicting direction of movement of stock price and stock market index for Indian stock markets. The study compares four prediction models, Artificial Neural Network (ANN), Support Vector Machine (SVM), Random Forest (RF) and Naive Bayes (NB) with two approaches for input to these models. The first approach for input data involves computation of ten technical par...

The project work presented in this thesis has proposed solutions related to the control of production and work-in-process inventory in a multi-item multi-stage manufacturing system. A suitable base-stock inventory control policy is recommended to ensure that the desired service levels are maintained between production stages and for the final customers. Concept of coupling the production lines ...

This is a preliminary draft. All comments and suggestions are welcome. Please do not quote without the author's permission. and in particular to the king of advisors, Don Lehmann, whom the author hopes he grows up to be like someday. ABSTRACT We explore consumer responses to stockouts, both in terms of consumer satisfaction with the decision process, and in terms of subsequent store choice beha...

RECENT EVENTS and research findings increasingly suggest that the stock market is not driven solely by news about fundamentals. There seem to be good theoretical as well as empirical reasons to believe that investor sentiment, also referred to as fads and fashions, affects stock prices. By investor sentiment we mean beliefs held by some investors that cannot be rationally justified. Such invest...

In this article, P is the purchasing or acquiring corporation, T is the target or acquired corporation, and S is a wholly owned P corporate subsidiary. In Rev. Rul. 2001-26,1 the IRS (building on case law2) stepped together (1) P’s acquisition of 51 percent of T’s stock by tender offer in exchange solely for P voting stock and (2) P’s preplanned acquisition of the remaining 49 percent of T’s st...

this paper represents a theoretical model from which the supply function for a durable goods is derived. it turns out that consumer at the equilibrium condition equates its user cost with the marginal value of services received by using an additional unit of durable goods. the stock price is obtained from this condition. in addition, at the equilbrium condition for producer, the stock price is ...