Well established and efficient agricultural commodity futures markets, are expected to perform the role of price discovery and risk management more effectively. The results of the Johansen's cointegration tests have shown that the spot and futures markets for the 12 agricultural commodities are...

With due credit to the globalized interlinked economy, the international linkages, information transmission, and the spillover effect from one futures market to other markets across the world is well researched and documented. Especially several studies on equity, currency, and commodity markets...

Although prices in the agricultural commodity futures markets have risen significantly in recent years, the results of this study support those of many previous studies that concluded that investments of commodity index traders and speculators in the futures markets are not the major causes of...

The present paper explores the information from NABARD reports on the Self Help Groups-Bank Linking Programme (SBLP) model performance and its overall progress in Indian Micro Finance system. Two decades of Self Help Groups-Bank Linking Programme (SBLP) has witnessed vast changes in the way of...