In this paper we examine if there is any overreaction effect present in Indian Stock market. We have used monthly closing adjusted prices of 500 stocks comprising S&P CNX 500 Equity Index over the period March, 1996 to March, 2007 and methodology as proposed by De Bondt and Thaler (1985) and...

Besides market risk, banking stocks are also subject to interest rate risk due to the simple fact that banking profitability is a function of prevailing interest rate. This paper examines the effects of interest rate changes on banking stock returns in India using the multivariate OLS and GARCH...

This paper examines the performance of socially responsible companies in different sectors along with general companies using return and various risk-adjusted measures over the period January 1996–December 2013 and over different business economic conditions. Besides the conventional...

The Arbitrage Pricing Theory (APT) propounded by Ross in 1976 argued for a variety of macro economic variables (sources of systematic risk) in explaining stock returns. In the same vein, this paper examines the relationship between macroeconomic variables (GDP, inflation, interest rate, exchange...

Equity investment is assumed to be a good hedge against inflation since long time. This paper examines short run causal relationship between inflation and stock return in emerging BRICS markets. The study covers a comprehensive period of 13 years from the year 2000 to 2013 using quarterly data....

Prior return effect – momentum and contrarian, is a well documented phenomenon in developed stock markets. This paper examines if there is any prior return effect in Indian stock market, an advanced emerging market in the world. We use daily price data available for stocks forming part of S&P...

The present study examines the impact of mode of payment used in cross border mergers and acquisitions by Indian companies on the abnormal returns generated on account of announcement and the post merger operating and financial performance. The study considers the cross border M & A undertaken...

In a first of this kind, this paper examines the issue of prior return effect in Indian stock market in intra-day analysis using high frequency data. We document that in Indian stock market, security returns exhibit a reversal in their direction within few minutes of extreme price rises as well...