Fearing opportunistic takeovers during the economic upheaval caused by the Covid-19 pandemic, India put forth FDI restrictions resulting in the suspension of automatic route FDI from its border-sharing neighbours. Applying difference-in-difference methodology to bilateral greenfield project...

Purpose This paper examines the relationship of financial market inclusion, economic growth, foreign direct investment and real output on trade openness for the Saudi Arabia Economy. Trade openness potentially is a major source of economic growth and development. Design/methodology/approach This...

This study investigates the role of India's economy in explaining the observed growth in South Asia, taking into consideration other sources of growth endogenous to the countries in the region. Since a review of key variables indicates that India's bilateral trade and financial linkages with...

In recent years, foreign exchange reserves of some of the central banks are increasingly being switched into investments in riskier assets that have been perpetually meant for liquid and safe instruments. Those reserve funds are mainly derived from excess liquidity in the public sector stemming...

Many emerging markets have experienced significant changes in government policies and capital market reforms. These changes may lead to changes in their return-generating processes. Based on Markov-switching models, this paper investigates whether there is more than one regime in the...

We examine the domestic stock price response to foreign capital issuance by Indian firms. Firms have extensively used foreign equity and convertible foreign debt sources since 1994. The role of foreign investment bankers, size of the issue, firm's growth opportunities, and other factors are...

We examine the domestic stock price response to foreign capital issuance by Indian firms. Firms have extensively used foreign equity and convertible foreign debt sources since 1994. The role of foreign investment bankers, size of the issue, firm's growth opportunities, and other factors are...

This paper examines the impact of daily foreign institutional investors' (FIIs) investments on the Indian market from January 2010 through January 2014. The motivation for the study is that the past studies on this topic are based only on examining the relationship between FII investments in...

Retail in India has a good growth potential but this sector is the least evolved with the growth of organized retail being substantially slow. In such a scenario, the government of India in early 2013 allowed 51 percent FDI in multi-brand retail. FDI plays an important role in the economic...

We study the period of the COVID-19 pandemic to assess the impact of foreign institutional investor (FII) flows on asset prices in an emerging market. Using a dataset of stock-level foreign fund flows of Indian equities, we show that stocks experiencing abnormally high innovations in foreign...