Some studies show that the performance of option strategies with stock portfolios could depend on other factors or on market conditions. Benninga and Blume (1985) analyzed the optimality of portfolio insurance in complete and incomplete markets, and found that buying put option may be optimal...

This study investigates the nature of relationship between price and trading volume for 50 Indian stocks. Firstly the contemporaneous and asymmetric relation between price and volume are examined. Then we examine the dynamic relation between returns and volume using VAR, Granger causality,...

Momentum strategies have drawn great attention in investment management literature over last two decades. In this paper we examine three important propositions in Indian context (1) Do momentum profits persist for long time periods?, (2) Can these momentum profits be absorbed by risk models?,...

This paper reviews the policies for foreign portfolio investments and empirically assess the impact FIIs investments on Indian equity market. Particularly, the study tries to examine the effects of FIIs investment on equity return, stock market liquidity and volatility. Using monthly data and...

Proponents of Semi strong form of Efficient Market Hypothesis (EMH) claim that security prices fully reflect all publicly available information in a rapid and unbiased manner. Opponents of this Hypothesis question its validity by explaining various anomalies in stock markets. One such anomaly...

Initial Public Offers (IPOs) market is considered to be the safest way to invest in the stocks and it also assures profits due to underpricing. Therefore, it attracts every type of investors and very particularly the retail investors. However, gaps do appear in perceived profits and the actual...

This paper examines the efficiency in pricing securities as well as the relation between exchange rate and dynamics of equity returns in a number of emerging stock markets from Africa and Asia,. This study utilizes methodologies based on Single variance ratio test of Lo and Mackinlay (1988),...

There has been renewed advocacy for restrictions on international financial flows in the wake of the recent financial crisis. Motivated by this trend, we explore the extent to which cross-border flows affect real economic activity. Unlike previous research efforts that focus on aggregated...