The Arbitrage Pricing Theory (APT) propounded by Ross in 1976 argued for a variety of macro economic variables (sources of systematic risk) in explaining stock returns. In the same vein, this paper examines the relationship between macroeconomic variables (GDP, inflation, interest rate, exchange...

Equity investment is assumed to be a good hedge against inflation since long time. This paper examines short run causal relationship between inflation and stock return in emerging BRICS markets. The study covers a comprehensive period of 13 years from the year 2000 to 2013 using quarterly data....

Real economic growth of a nation is supported by its financial sector. This paper examines the relationship between real and financial sectors of India, an advanced emerging market of the world, over the period 2004-2014. Domestic credit and BSE Stock market capitalization are taken as proxy of...

Prior return effect – momentum and contrarian, is a well documented phenomenon in developed stock markets. This paper examines if there is any prior return effect in Indian stock market, an advanced emerging market in the world. We use daily price data available for stocks forming part of S&P...

The current study focuses on the long run value creation by cross border mergers and acquisitions by Indian companies in the period of 1998-2009. Event study methodology has been employed for achieving the purpose. The results revealed that there was significant value deterioration for the...

The present study examines the impact of mode of payment used in cross border mergers and acquisitions by Indian companies on the abnormal returns generated on account of announcement and the post merger operating and financial performance. The study considers the cross border M & A undertaken...

The present study focuses upon the comparison between the pre and post merger financial performance of the Indian companies undertaking cross border mergers and acquisitions during 1998-2009. An attempt has been made to assess the performance on an aggregate basis, on the basis of timing of the...

Multinational Enterprises in emerging markets are becoming dominant players in world's economic growth. Indian economy is one of them. These markets have been attracting inbound foreign direct investment (FDI) for last few years and the reverse trend has also begun for various emerging economies...

In a first of this kind, this paper examines the issue of prior return effect in Indian stock market in intra-day analysis using high frequency data. We document that in Indian stock market, security returns exhibit a reversal in their direction within few minutes of extreme price rises as well...

Stocks are generally considered to be a good hedge against inflation because of their tendency to move together. This paper examines long term relationship between inflation and stock returns in BRICS markets using panel data for the period from March 2000 to September 2013. Correlation results...