Present study investigates the price discovery and hedging efficiency of NIFTY and all those stock futures whose trading started on 9th November 2001 and are continuously traded till 30th June 2006. The study observes information asymmetry in both futures and cash market and significant...

The present study investigates weak form of efficiency in Indian equity futures market. For this purpose, informational efficiency of the Nifty futures and 24 stock futures is examined. The Nifty and stock futures returns are found to be deviating from normal distribution. The futures prices are...

The present study attempts to suggest an optimal hedge ratio for Indian traders through the examination of three indices, i.e., Nifty, Bank Nifty and CNXIT, and 84 most liquid individual stock futures traded on the National Stock Exchange of India, over the sample period January 2003 to December...

The present study investigates the information dissemination efficiency of the Indian equity futures market. Daily log returns of all indices as well as individual stock futures contracts understudy have been found to be non-normal and responding asymmetrically to the information shocks....