Overall risk of a bank depends on many factors. In this paper, we investigate how group characteristics and bank-wise individual factors (credit policy, extent of hedging) influence the risk of a bank and how they vary with time. Initially we used coefficient of variation and K-means cluster...

The study examines the efficiency of the Indian Commercial Banks in the backdrop of undesirable Non-Performing Assets. The study applies Meta-Frontier approach for assessing the efficiency of banks in heterogeneous Indian banking groups, such as Indian PSU Banks, Domestic Private Banks and...

It is well known that the overall insurance sector in India has been undergoing a series of reforms from time to time. The drastic change that re-designed the contours of the industry is the implementation of the Malhotra Committee Recommendations which opened up the landscape to the private...

Oil is one of the most important forms of energy and is a significant determinant of global economic performance. Commodities like oil are fairly homogeneous and internationally traded. The impact of dollar nominated oil prices on stock prices may not be quite relevant for Indian context. In...

A change in share price reflects the economic health of a company as perceived by individual investors. The reflection might not be as exact as mirror rather reflection on water of a pond with a mild wave. The uncertainty of the business is due to several controllable and uncontrollable factors....

Purpose– This study aims to investigate the dynamic relationships between oil price shocks and Indian stock market.Design/methodology/approach– The study used daily data for the period starting from January 2001 to March 2013. In this study, Johansen's cointegration test, vector error...

In any economy, changes in inflation rate influence almost all economic activities directly or indirectly. In the economic theory, it is understood that low and stable inflation is desired as a key objective of economic policy. On the contrary, high inflation is widely believed to hold back...

The decision on capital structure makes an impact on the overall cost of capital and consequently value of the firm. The capital structure decision of growth companies is even more important as the companies require fresh fund to finance growth. In this study, the sales of software companies in...