In this paper, an attempt is made to examine the relationship between inflation and stock returns in India using spectral and time-frequency methods. Scale specific relation between inflation and stock returns is unraveled, allowing us to capture the relationship at varying investment horizons....

A dynamic shift in thinking has taken place both locally as well as globally to understand the phenomenon of rising economic inequalities and accordingly find measures to correct this state of disequilibrium. However in no way the contribution of predecessors cannot be put in vain, as their work...

The purpose of this paper is to examine the issue of long memory stock returns of emerging markets. The study carries out a biased reduced semi parametric test to detect long memory in mean process. The results suggest no strong evidence of long memory in mean process of stock returns both in...

The present study investigates the role of information in price discovery function and volatility spillover in Nifty and S&P CNX Nifty futures by employing two-step TGARCH procedures. First, the study examines short and long-run relationship between S&P CNX Nifty index and Nifty index futures in...

Empirical evidences on the transmission mechanism by which monetary policy affects the economy, particularly general prices and real activity, are essential, both for effective policy making and understanding the alternate macroeconomic theories. A consensus has largely been established on the...

This paper re-examines the issue of mean-reversion in the Indian equity market. Unlike earlier studies, the present paper carries out a multiple structural breaks test and uses a new and disaggregated data set. The study found significant structural breaks in the returns series of all selected...

An attempt is made in this paper to examine whether stock returns in two premier two exchanges in India namely, Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE), and National Stock Exchange (NSE) follow a random walk. Towards this end, data on major indices during the period 1997 to 2009 are analyzed by using...