Explain Becker's "Rational choices within families" and Hakim's "Preference theories" in details.
See Answer →Does social protection bring gender equity and equality? Discuss.
See Answer →Provide a comprehensive picture of establishing shelters for domestic workers and waste pickers as part of the social security measures for the workers in the informal economy of urban India.
See Answer →Discuss the role played by the Trade Union to address the issues of women workers by drawing examples from India.
See Answer →What is the concept of work? Define unpaid work. Discuss the way to measure unpaid work. What are the reasons for the undervaluation or under-enumeration of women's work?
See Answer →Discuss the concept of leverage for a firm. Discuss the important financial and leverage ratios used. Explain the Merton-Miller theorem.
See Answer →Compare the impact of monetary policy under fixed exchange rates with those under flexible exchange rates.
See Answer →Give a theoretical model of central banking, bringing out the relationship between the monetary base and monetary aggregates. What are instruments of monetary policy used by central banks?
See Answer →Explain the need for, and role of depository systems in secondary markets. Explain the concept of custodial services.
See Answer →Explain the Arbitrage Pricing Theory.
See Answer →Discuss the Markowitz theory of efficient portfolio selection. How does the Capital Asset Pricing Theory (CAPM) theory build on it?
See Answer →Describe the nature of the financial system in a modern economy giving the important types of constituent institutions, markets and instruments. Explain the concept of flow-of-funds in the financial markets.
See Answer →Define the concept of ‘loss function’ with suitable expressions for different cases.
See Answer →Explain the significance of a ‘probability density function’ in the measurement of death.
See Answer →Distinguish between the terms ‘annuity-certain’ and ‘contingent annuities’.
See Answer →Show that the ‘Linear Accumulation Function’ is valid for all real numbers.
See Answer →Write a note on the concept of Martingales with illustrations.
See Answer →Explain the concept of Classical Credibility.
See Answer →Discuss the approach to ‘Geometric Brownian Motion’ with its applications to the Mean Reversion Models.
See Answer →What are ‘non-catastrophic losses’? How is the ‘total loss amount’ in respect of such a loss determined?
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