Growing urbanization, increasing population and increased per capita income have boosted the demand for housing in India. This empirical study gives us an explanation of how the market leverage of the real state firms in India are affected by firm specific attributes and external market or...

Empirical evidence indicates that environmental social and governance (ESG) practices are associated with firm financial performance, but little is covered about investors’ attention towards stock performance. In this paper, we conduct a test of the relationship between ESG performance...

Business Analytics indicates the practices and competencies for exploration and introspection of business performance to make purposive, intuitive, and expedient business decisions. Business analytics involves a plethora of analysis around business data to draw information that could be used by...

The purpose of this article is to identify the key elements of market determinants of bond yield and the external borrowing environment. A reasonably integrated bond market is safer for both investors as well as issuers. It assesses the robustness of integration in corporate bond yields....

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to study the characteristics of the workers in the informal economy and explore the reasons for workers migrating from rural to urban area. The authors also explore and enumerate various reasons why the migrants choose to work informally and study whether...

This textbook provides a first-hand account of impact of volatility on valuations. It focuses on valuation of the investment with fair, practical and insightful explanations. Volatility in markets can form the foundation of fair value. A marginal change in volatility has a significant impact on...

Research aim: This study aims to examine the impact of ownership structure (ownership concentration and identities) on the financial and market performance of Indian listed firms, post the US financial crisis 2008.Design/Methodology/Approach: This study is based on a six-year financial dataset...

Under the Basel framework banks are required to conduct stress tests for their requirements of potential capital while considering the impact of stress testing scenarios. There could exist inter-linkages among macro- economic indicators and financial performance such that the stressed credit...

An ever growing middle class population and rising income levels, combined with the demographic change of smaller household sizes has boosted demand for retail credit. There may exist meaningful inter-linkages among economic indicators and personal finance growth such that the variation in the...