Advancement in the nature of business and management performance has pushed the need of people to build a more effective and structural financial measurement. Today it is well settled that the aim of every business entity should be to maximize shareholders’ wealth. As investors world over, are...

For the effective and better implementation of CSR law, development of SRI market in the investment world is essential. Unless the investors turn socially responsible, CSR principles cannot be enforced in practice. This paper examines whether the companies that are socially responsible are...

One of the significant developments in the investing community is the rise of socially responsible or ethical investments during last two decades. Because of the increasing size and importance of ethical mutual funds, this paper seeks to evaluate and compare the performance of ethical mutual...

In a first of its kind, this paper examines the performance of various socially responsible stocks portfolios as compared to general stocks portfolios and market portfolio using return and various risk-adjusted measures over the period January 1996 – December 2013 and over different business...

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...