The study analyses the inter-firm differences in the foreign institutional investors' portfolio investment with respect to the firm characteristics for a sample of Indian firms. The firm specific characteristics studied are promoters' shareholding, firm size, systematic risk, price to book...

In the last decade, the Foreign Institutional Investor (FII) flows have increased almost twenty times and attained shares of thirteen and six percent in the National Stock Exchange and Bombay Stock Exchanges respectively in the cash segment of the Indian equity market. This raises the issue of...

The paper tries to identify the presence of ‘market-wide herding' in the Indian capital market and whether Institutional Investors impact such Herding. In particular, the paper looks at the impact of FII Flows as well as mutual funds on herding. The work also looks at the impact of index...