Since 1991, the Government of India has been pursuing a program of structural reforms aimed at stabilizing the economy and promoting reliance on market mechanisms. Bengal Initiative for BIMSTEC (Multi Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation) is one of many regional trade agreements that...

The dynamic process of integration of national economies has a long history, with two distinct waves: one, from the middle of the 19th century until its interruption with outbreak of the First World War in 1913 till the end of the Second World War in 1945. The second wave is ongoing dating from...

The mushrooming of Special Economic Zones (SEZs) in recent years has led to a significant increase in the supply of attractive incentives for investors looking for opportunities abroad. SEZs are self-contained regimes, inextricably associated with investment promotion policies and domestic...

We gauge the de-facto capital account openness of the Chinese and Indian economies by testing the law of one price on the basis of onshore and offshore price gaps for three key financial instruments. Generally, the three measures show both economies becoming more financially open over time. Over...

Much research has been devoted to studying the international spillover effects of US monetary policy. However, a lot of the focus has been on the recent unconventional monetary policies undertaken by the Federal Reserve. Combining high frequency financial market data with a time-varying...

Multi-scale representations are effective in characterising the time-frequency characteristics of financial return series. They have the capability to reveal the properties not evident with typical time domain analysis. Given the aforesaid, this study derives crucial insights from multi scale...

This paper examines the probable impact of volatility in stock markets of India and US on frontier markets of Africa, Middle East, and South Asia. Time series data for 10 years spanning from March 1, 2009, to February 28, 2018 is considered for the study. Unconditional correlations are computed...

Multi-scale representations are effective in characterising the time-frequency characteristics of financial return series. They have the capability to reveal the properties not evident with typical time domain analysis. Given the aforesaid, this study derives crucial insights from multi scale...

It is an established fact that the ability of internationalization of all economy is largely dependent on its investment links with the rest of the world - both inward and outward. While inward investment plays a critical role in bridging the gap between the amount of investment targeted by the...

We analyze the transmission of global financial crisis to business cycles in China and India. The pattern of business cycles in emerging Asian economies generally displays a low degree of synchronization with the OECD countries, which is consistent with the decoupling hypothesis. By contrast,...