The present study is a maiden attempt in accessing the relationship between board size and performance of banks in context of India. The study also aimed at analyzing the effect of other corporate governance factors on the performance. While many factors have been identified as the Corporate...

The study investigates the change in performance of Indian public firms post to their Initial Public Offerings (IPOs) and its relationship with the changes in the insiders' ownership around the time firms do their IPOs. A three step methodology is followed. First, the pre-IPO performance of a...

This paper examines the determinants of the going public decision of the Indian companies. A probit regression model is used to analyze the influence of fundamental financial data of Indian companies on their going public decision. The size, profitability, age and leverage emerged as the...

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the market timing behaviour of issuers of Indian Initial Public Offerings (IPOs). The declining trend in variables reflecting investor's sentiments and expectation in post IPO period suggested that firms took advantage of over-optimism of investors....

In this paper an attempt was made to determine whether Price-Earnings (P/E) ratios indicate future prices or yields in Indian capital market. While the efficient market hypothesis negates the possibility of prediction, the P/E ratio supporters argue that due to exaggerated investors'...

This study investigates the determinants of going-public decision of the Indian firms juxtaposing two related research issues: What ex-ante characteristics of going-public Indian firms differentiate them from those Indian firms that continue to remain private? What ex-post consequences of IPOs...

The study examines the following two interrelated research issues: (i) how the operating performance of Indian firms changes around the time firms do their Initial Public Offerings (IPOs)? and (ii) how the post-IPO performance of Indian firms is related to the changes in insiders' ownership...

This paper examines the determinant factors of going public decision of the Indian firms. Both pre IPO and post IPO factors are identified. Pre IPO factors are identified by comparing pre IPO characteristics of public firms with that of private firms using a probit regression model. Post IPO...