This joint ECB-DNB Occasional Paper aims to inform the ongoing discussions about an EU-level framework for operationalising macroprudential leverage limits for alternative investment funds (AIFs). It builds on, and extends, the analysis of an ECB-DNB special feature article published in the...

The paper investigates how the characteristics of the distribution network and the affiliation to a banking group affect mutual funds performance exploiting a unique dataset with extremely detailed information on funds' portfolios and bank-issuer relationships for the period 2006-2017. We find...

In this paper, we provide the first evidence of liquidity timing ability of mutual funds outside US. We propose a new model to study liquidity timing ability of mutual funds. The model matches the higher moment framework required for emerging market study. We find that on the average the mutual...

A non-normal stock return distribution is common in emerging markets. We propose a new liquidity timing model in a higher moment. Overall, fund managers are able to time the market-wide liquidity even in a higher moment environment. A co-skewness risk factor is statistically priced. High...

The hedging effectiveness for bank futures and CNX nifty are evaluated in this study. The study is based on 9569 observations of the daily data for these index futures. For evaluation OLS, co-integrated OLS, GARCH (1, 1) and constant correlation GARCH (1, 1) hedging methods are estimated and...

Risk and return plays an important role in making any investment decisions. Decision include investment should be done or not and which securities should be included in portfolio. Determining efficient portfolios within an asset class (e.g., stocks) can be achieved with the single index (beta)...

In this paper we investigated the impact of global capital adequacy norms on the asset portfolios of Indian banks. This research question is important in the Indian context as the Indian banks have adopted global regulatory norms in integration with the already existing domestic policy...