There is a growing body of literature examining the effectiveness of the monetary policy on the macroeconomy in different contexts for developed and developing countries. However, lately, especially after the GFC, the focus of research shifted to examine the role of uncertainty in economic...

Purpose - Though an accumulating body of study has analysed monetary policy transmission in India, there are few studies examining the differential impact of monetary policy action. Against this backdrop, this study aims to analyse the differential impact of monetary policy on aggregate demand,...

The study aims at developing an Early Warning System for predicting balance of payments crises for 17 emerging economies, which constitute a relatively homogenous group, over the period 1975-2012. We construct an index of exchange market pressure, based on monthly depreciations of the nominal...

This study attempts to analyze the presence of weak form efficiency in the forex markets of a set of select European emerging markets namely Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary Poland, Romania, Russia, Slovakia and Slovenia using the monthly NEER data ranging from jan-1994 to Dec-2013. We...

This paper examines non-linear dependence in Indian stock returns using a set of non-linearity tests. The daily data between 1997 and 2009 for eight indices from National Stock Exchange (NSE) and six indices from Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) are used. The results suggest strong evidence of...

In this paper, an attempt is made to examine the relationship between inflation and stock returns in India using spectral and time-frequency methods. Scale specific relation between inflation and stock returns is unraveled, allowing us to capture the relationship at varying investment horizons....

A dynamic shift in thinking has taken place both locally as well as globally to understand the phenomenon of rising economic inequalities and accordingly find measures to correct this state of disequilibrium. However in no way the contribution of predecessors cannot be put in vain, as their work...

The purpose of this paper is to examine the issue of long memory stock returns of emerging markets. The study carries out a biased reduced semi parametric test to detect long memory in mean process. The results suggest no strong evidence of long memory in mean process of stock returns both in...

This paper re-examines the issue of mean-reversion in the Indian equity market. Unlike earlier studies, the present paper carries out a multiple structural breaks test and uses a new and disaggregated data set. The study found significant structural breaks in the returns series of all selected...

An attempt is made in this paper to examine whether stock returns in two premier two exchanges in India namely, Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE), and National Stock Exchange (NSE) follow a random walk. Towards this end, data on major indices during the period 1997 to 2009 are analyzed by using...