The investment decision is influenced by many factors of which one such factor is return. The shareholders may get return in the form dividend which affects the share prices. The behavior of stock prices is unpredictable as price movement for different activities will move in different ways. The...

Finance is a vital ingredient for economic growth, but there can also be too much of it. This study investigates what fifty years of data for OECD countries have to say about the role of the financial sector for economic growth and income inequality and draws policy implications. Over the past...

Camel approach is significant tool to assess the relative financial strength of a bank and to suggest necessary measures to improve weaknesses of a bank. In India, RBI adopted this approach in 1996 followed on the recommendations of Padmanabham Working Group (1995) committee. In the present...

Dividend announcement is one of the important corporate action and this action influence shareholders wealth. Investors expect to invest before the dividend date to come, it may lead to positive abnormal return in that stock and also if investors not happy with amount of dividend, it may also...

Due to the entry of foreign banks and development in technology in India, banking industry in India has accelerated and adopt various technology to facilitate banking activity, Internet banking is one of the finest adoption in Indian banking history which accelerated the banking activity for the...

The purpose of this paper is to analyze the market for cross-border mergers and acquisitions (CB-M&A) representing the Asian emerging market-India for the period 1991 through 2010. I also compare the market in India among the BRIC economies (Brazil, Russia and China (including Hong Kong)) for...

In contrast to the focus of much of the literature on the role of capital markets in hastening convergence in corporate governance practices worldwide, we document the role played by the globalization of product and talent markets in affecting corporate governance of firms in the Indian software...

This study examines Indian firms that go public overseas through American Depository Receipts (ADRs) and Global Depositary Receipts (GDRs) and investigates the performance of ADRs and GDRs as a means of raising finance overseas for such firms. Our sample is composed of 124 firm year observation...

This review article provides an overview of literature on the structural shift in the economy from primary and secondary sector towards the tertiary sector. We attempt to revisit the developments of the tertiary sector and its implications on the Indian economy as a whole. While analyzing the...

This paper presents a switching regression model of investment decision where the probability of a firm facing financial constraint is endogenously determined. The approach, therefore, obviates the use of a priori criteria to exogenously identify the financially constrained firms, and thereby...