Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to investigate the factors influencing the behavioral intention to adopt payments banks services by Indian underbanked and unbanked population. Design/methodology/approach: The proposed model has assimilated factors from the Unified Theory of Acceptance and...

The concept and legality of income smoothing is a much debated topic in the field of accounting. It is carried out to suit the requirements of a firm when it is to declare its financial results. There are many tools used by firms to smooth the income, and loss provision is one of them. Since it...

This paper used an economic model of systemic risk given by Acharya (2016) to measure the state of systemic risk in Indian financial market during COVID-19 Pandemic. It is based on marginal expected shortfall (MES), the likelihoods of a financial firm to be undercapitalized when the financial...

There are numerous studies that examine the impact of social media on the stock market performance but there is a paucity of such evidences from the emerging economies. Today many multinational banks and other financial conglomerates from the developed countries are expanding their operations to...

The purpose of this study is to determine the factors influencing the Information & Communication Technology (ICT) adoption by the managers or owners of Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises (MSME) operating in India. Based on two established theories of technology adoption - Technology...