We examine the business model of traditional commercial banks in the context of their co-existence with shadow banks. While both types of intermediaries create safe "money-like" claims, they go about this in very different ways. Traditional banks create safe claims with a combination of costly...

The aim of the study is to explore the dynamics between the risk and return of the three private banking stocks of National Stock Exchange (NSE)—Axis, HDFC and ICICI Banks. These are high beta stocks. This paper deals with the impact of sample size on the distributional characteristics of the...