: This study looks at the impact of derivatives listings on returns of the underlying assets. Employing event study methodology, the study finds significant and positive abnormal returns around futures and options listing announcement dates in the National Stock Exchange (NSE). The results show...

A structural vector autoregression (SVAR) model is proposed for analysing the impact of monetary policy stances on real variables in the Indian economy, in the context of its continuous exposure to global factors like oil price shocks and changes in global financial health. The empirical...

In the light of the recent observation that the relationship between financial development and economic growth is one of non-linear and limitations of granger test, this paper re-examined relationship in the framework of non-linear Granger causality employing (Diks and Panchenko in Stud...

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...

In this paper, the relationship between electricity consumption (LEC) and economic growth (LGDP) using Autoregressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) model and Granger causality within error correction framework in India over the period 1970–1971 to 2009–2010 are analysed. The results of these tests...

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 study investigates the relationship between nominal and real effective exchange rates. Both short run and long run relationships between the two are examined by employing Autoregressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) bounds testing approach to cointegration. The results of the study reveal that...

: This paper discusses in some detail various existing approaches of measuring core inflation, evaluating their potential advantages and disadvantages. Then a variety of measures of core inflation for India based on three methods are constructed. Among these measures, three are based on...

The National Stock Exchange (NSE) of India was ranked the first in terms of trading of individual stock futures in the year 2007. Financial derivatives like stock futures have always been accused of causing instability in the spot market. This paper investigates the effects of individual stock...

: This paper empirically investigates the behavior of stock returns of two premier stock markets in India, namely, the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) and National Stock Exchange (NSE). Specifically, the paper seeks to examine whether the security returns in these two markets follow random walk...