The present study investigates weak form of efficiency in Indian equity futures market. For this purpose, informational efficiency of the Nifty futures and 24 stock futures is examined. The Nifty and stock futures returns are found to be deviating from normal distribution. The futures prices are...

Present study investigates the price discovery and hedging efficiency of NIFTY and all those stock futures whose trading started on 9th November 2001 and are continuously traded till 30th June 2006. The study observes information asymmetry in both futures and cash market and significant...

Over the years, women cricketers have garnered little media or societal attention. There has been much research on men’s cricket but relatively little on women’s cricket. This study aims to quantify women’s batting performances in one-day international (ODI) matches. The average batting...

The anomalous behavior of Initial Public Offerings (IPOs) has been extensively researched and debated. Numerous studies have documented stock price and operating underperformance of IPOs and suggested several reasons like earnings management, timing of issues, agency theory, etc., as causing...

This paper examines the performance of 648 initial public offerings (IPOs) listed on the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) from June 1992 to March 2002 over a five-year period. Voluminous research across the world suggests that IPOs unanimously witness very high returns in the short run; as opposed to...