This paper examines whether the spread between long- and short-terminterest rates contains information about future economic activity in India. Using the yields on securities with maturities ranging from three months to ten years, we construct five different yield spreads at shorter end, longer...

Empirical evidences on the transmission mechanism by which monetary policy affects the economy, particularly general prices and real activity, are essential, both for effective policy making and understanding the alternate macroeconomic theories. A consensus has largely been established on the...

Sovereign rating—an assessment of the relative likelihood of a country defaulting on its financial obligations—is important not only because better ratings facilitate external borrowing at favourable rates of interest, but also for the impetus it gives to the development of...

Purpose – The purpose of this article is to examine the inter-relationship and direction of causality among three macroeconomic variables such as trade liberalization, financial development and economic growth. Design/methodology/approach – The empirical analysis is based on the principal...

In this paper, the dynamics of Standard and Poor's 500 (S&P 500) stock price index is analysed within a time-frequency framework over a monthly period 1791:08-2015:05. Using the Empirical Mode Decomposition technique, the S&P 500 stock price index is divided into different frequencies known as...

The co-movement in the international inflation rates, among others, may be produced by common shocks, similarities in central bank reaction functions, international trade and the operation of purchasing power parity theory. However, to assess the synchronization of inflation fluctuations across...

The paper examines the relationship between exchange rates and share prices using the wavelets approach, and more specifically the continuous wavelet power spectrum, cross-wavelet transform, and cross-wavelet coherency. Our results, based on Indian data, lend support to the traditional (Am Econ...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to understand the determinants of financial inclusion and the determinants of barriers to financial inclusion in India. Also, the purpose is to ascertain the determinants of informal financial activities in India. Design/methodology/approach: The data have...