The last three decades have witnessed a phenomenal growth in innovations in financialmarkets. This is of interest to all financial intermediaries including commercial andcorporative banks, insurance companies and other financial institutions.Globalization, Liberalization and Privatization have...

We characterize the changes in credit quality of a large sample of listed Indian corporates. Multiple indicators suggest that credit quality declines sharply between 2010 and 2015, creating a thick tail of vulnerable corporate debt. Stress is primarily due to a sharp contraction in aggregate...

The financial performance of India's corporate sector has been under pressure since the Global Financial Crisis. Balance-sheet data on a large cross-section of Indian non-financial corporates show that the growth in their leverage over the last 15 years has been associated with a notable...

This paper investigates the time-varying correlation and the volatility behaviour of the New Age Technology (Industry 4.0) sectors and, traditional sectors in US (NASDAQ sectoral indices) and India (Nifty sectoral indices) using ADCC/DCC – GARCH models. We also assess the impact of Global...

Microfinance is often considered a "double bottom line" sector, which refers to organizations that take care of their financial side and their social responsibility, trying to give minimum coverage to both. An optimistic vision of microfinance programs as a new key for development considered...

The primary purpose of this paper is to empirically investigate the impact of bank competition on financial stability in India. We use a dynamic panel model to examine whether an increase in bank competition hindrances financial stability of commercial banks in India over the period 1996 to...

Research in banking and finance is being profoundly shaped by recent crises and events. This paper offers a synopsis of the trends in global uncertainty over the past twenty years and provides a review of the most recent literature for each of the emerging topics in banking covered in the six...

This paper analyses how non-performing loans (NPLs) of Indian banks behave through the cycle. We find that a one-percentage point increase in loan growth is associated with an increase in NPLs over total advances (NPL ratio) of 4.3 per cent in the long run with the response being higher during...

This article grapples with the causes of India's microfinance crisis. By contrasting Bangladesh's highly successful Grameen model with the allegedly “universalizable” version of India's SKS Microfinance (which precipitated the crisis), trust or social capital is isolated — not just...

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...