Drinking water being the basic requirements of life plays an integral role in maintaining and promoting public health. To meet the targets of Millennium Development Goals India needs roughly Rs.380 billion. Given pattern of investments, State is making large investment. However, due to lack of...

This paper applies Autoregressive Conditional Heteroskedasticity (ARCH) methodology to model volatality and its persistence based on daily returns(1992-96) of 30 blue-chip securities traded in Bombay Stock Exchange. The results of the Study show that the variance of returns varies over time and...

This paper presents estimates indicating that, for aggregate U.S. stock market data 1871-1986, a long historical average of real earnings is a good predictor of the present value of future real dividends. This is true even when the information contained in stock prices is taken into account. We...

This paper addresses the important question of what happened to the Indian stock market following financial liberalisation. Considering three stock market indicators, viz., size, liquidity and volatility, and applying two time series trend break techniques of Perron (1989, 1997) on monthly data...

This paper attempts to test the stock market efficienty (in a semi-strong form) by investigating the relationsship between aggregate stock returns and a number of important macro variables including fiscal and monetary policy actions using the VAR methodology. This exercise is carried out using...

Questionnaires were sent out at the time of the October 19, 1987 stock market crash to both individual and institutional investors inquiring about their behavior during the crash. Nearly 1000 responses were received. The survey results show that: 1. No news story or rumor appearing on the 19th...