Warehouses are closely linked to commodity futures exchanges and form an important component in the process of price formation of commodities. Warehouses issue warehouse receipts to farmers, the warehouse guarantees the farmer the delivery of the goods stored in the premises of the warehouse...

Contemporary discussions on 2012 U.S Presidential election mention that economic variables such as unemployment rate, inflation, budget deficit/surplus, public debt, tax policy and healthcare spending will be deciding elements in the forthcoming November election. Certain researchers like...

The objective of this paper is to develop an algorithm to create an Optimum Portfolio from a large pool of stocks listed in a single market index SPX 500 Index: USA (for example) using Genetic Algorithm. The algorithm selects stocks on the basis of a priority index function designed on company...

Predicting currency movements is perhaps one of the hardest exercises in economics as it has many variables affecting its market movement. This study concerns with some of the usual macroeconomic variables which, in theory, are expected to affect the exchange rate between two countries. Indian...

Joint dynamics of market index returns, volume traded and volatility of stock market returns can unveil different dimensions of market microstructure. It can be useful for precise volatility estimation and understanding liquidity of the financial market. In this study, the joint dynamics is...

Electricity is a commodity and has a characteristic of being non-storable; it must be consumed once it is produced. In India, the Electricity Act (2003) tries to promote competition by unbundling and treating generation, transmission and distribution as separate entities. In order to address the...

The paper studies the impact of bank specific, industry specific and macroeconomic factors affecting profitability of Indian Banks in a dynamic model framework. The persistence of bank profits and endogeneity of the factors have been accounted for using Generalised Method of Moments (GMM) as...

The aim of the paper is to implement the algorithm for selecting stocks from a pool of stocks listed in a single market index like S&P CNX 500(say) and finding the corresponding weights of the stocks in the optimized portfolio using Treynor’s ratio, on the basis of historical data of Indian...