Recently, a lot of questions were raised about the financial health of commercial banks in India. This paper analyzes the Indian banks' riskiness and the probability of book-value insolvency under the framework developed by Hannan and Hanweck (1988). A risk index, known as Z score, for Global...

The aim of this paper is to develop an algorithm for calculating and plotting payoff of option strategies for a portfolio of path independent vanilla and exotic options. A general algorithm for calculating the vector matrix for any arbitrary combination strategy is also developed for some of the...

This paper examines the investment behavior of Indian mutual fund industry. Since the majority of investors who invest in mutual funds are salaried individuals or individuals that own SMEs, the Indian Mutual Fund industry should have a long term investment horizon. However, the data from all...

In this paper we derive the Bayes estimates of the location parameter of normal and lognormal distribution under the hierarchical priors for the vector parameter, . The ML-II ε-contaminated class of priors are employed at the second stage of hierarchical priors to examine the robustness of...

In the past decades, there has been an unprecedented increase in cross border transactions between countries in terms of goods and financial flows. This integration has been fuelled by search of lower risk investments, risk diversification, search for cost effective and more efficient factors of...

This paper aims to study the sensitivity of Bayes estimate of location parameter of an Inverse Gaussian (IG) distribution to misspecification in the prior distribution. It also studies the effect of misspecification of the prior distribution on two-sided predictive limits for a future...

In this paper we employ ML-II ε-contaminated class of priors to study the sensitivity of Bayes Reliability measures for an Inverse Gaussian (IG) distribution and Lognormal (LN) distribution to misspecification in the prior. The numerical illustrations suggest that reliability measures of both...