Papers presented at the Conference, held at Pondicherry University during 17-19 December 2010; organized by Dept. of Commerce, Pondicherry University in association with Multi Commodity Exchange of India, Forward Markets Commission, Govt. of India, and NABARD

In this paper, we examine the possibility of price momentum strategy and the profitability thereof in the Indian equity market, which is one of the most promising emerging markets. We also analyze the magnitude of contribution made by losers' and winners' portfolios to momentum profit in the...

Momentum has remained an unanswered anomaly in finance literature. Researchers have pointed out two arguments, whether the source of prior return anomalies are rational or behavioral. In this paper, we examined return chasing tendency investors and the profitability of probable price momentum...