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...

We use a cost of carry model with nonzero transactions costs to motivate estimation of a nonlinear dynamic relationship between the S&P 500 futures and cash indexes. Discontinuous arbitrage suggests that a threshold error correction mechanism may characterize many aspects of the relationship...

This paper models an economy in which managers, whose efforts affect firm performance, are able to make "inside" trades on claims whose value is also dependent on firm performance. Managers are able to trade only on "good news," that is, on returns above market expectations. Further, managers...

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...

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...