The present study intends to analyze empirically to what extent product market competition that a firm faces in a developing country like India, affects its capital structure decisions. The product market behaviour is captured from three different angles viz. structure-conduct-performance. We...

This study is based on a primary survey conducted over two consecutive years in two villages in the North 24 Parganas district of West Bengal, India. West Bengal has the unique feature of being under a single coalition government for the last 30 years. In this context, we examine the effect of...

In India, the recent unprecedented rise in the capital market index is attributed to institutional investors like foreign institutional investors (FIIs) and domestic mutual funds. The nature of investments by FIIs has been examined in the literature, but that of mutual funds remains unexplored....

The present paper tries to identify the socio-political and economic characteristics of borrowers of different types of loans and loan sizes, on the basis of a primary household survey on around 300 households carried out in two villages in the district of North 24-Parganas in West Bengal,...