Papers presented at the International Conference on Financial Derivatives, 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

Liquidity being an elusive concept is often difficult to measure, and it becomes even vaguer in currency options market which provides investors an alternative to hedge against foreign exchange fluctuations. Over past few years since the starting of trading of currency options contracts on US...

An attempt is made to study the pattern of trade, comparative economics forex derivates and the impact of futures on forwards and spot. The existing trends so far suggest that despite the significant rise in futures volumes, there was no notable shift in volumes from forwards to futures market....

This study examines the existence of Cointegration between the future and spot prices of highly traded currencies in India like USD, EURO, GBP, and JPY. The spot prices are collected from RBI reference Prices and future prices from MCX-SX (Multi Commodity Exchange-Stock Exchange) from October...