In this paper, we examine if there is any short-term persistence in mutual funds performance in the Indian context. We find no evidence that confirms persistence using monthly data. Using daily data, we observe that for fund schemes sorted on prior period four-factor abnormal returns, the...

In this paper, we evaluate if there are any momentum patterns in Indian stock returns. We report strong momentum profits for individual stocks as well as a wide range of characteristic-sorted portfolios. The momentum returns are not captured by standard CAPM. However, the Fama-French...

Momentum continues to be the prime embarrassment to asset pricing models, even for mature equity market such as US. We tested the applicability of momentum strategies in India, a fast-growing emerging market. We found that momentum returns that are missed by CAPM, are partially explained by the...

Size effect has been extensively documented for most of the world capital markets including India. In this paper we examine the causes of the size effect in Indian stock market. We test whether operating, financial and liquidity characteristics substantially differentiate small firms from large...

In this study we attempt to test if there is a size effect in Indian stock market. The data comprises of top 482 Indian companies for the period 1990-2003. We find a strong size premium using six alternative measures of company size viz. Market capitalization, Enterprise Value, Net Fixed Assets,...

This study examines the process of information transmission in India's agriculture commodity futures market by investigating the price discovery and direction of volatility spillovers between futures and spot prices of nine agricultural commodities viz., Barley, Cardamom, Castor seed, Chana...

In this paper, we empirically investigate the relationship between bid-ask spread, trading activity and intra-day volatility using futures data for five commodities for the sample period of 2006-2010. We have considered five commodities from four categories in our study viz., Gold from precious...

In a period of strong upheavals in India's foreign exchange market, the present study investigates the price discovery and volatility spillovers between spot and futures prices of four major international currencies traded on two trading platforms in India. The price discovery results confirm...

This paper examines the regime shifts and stock market volatility in the stock market returns of seven emerging economies popularly called as ‘BRIICKS' which stands for Brazil, Russia, India, Indonesia, China, South Korea and South Africa, over the period from February, 1996 to January, 2012...