This paper tests for market integration in 55 wholesale rice markets in India using monthly data over the period January 1970 - December 1999. The technique of Gonzalez-Rivera and Helfand (2001) is used to identify common factors across various markets. It is discovered that market integration...

The steady decline of funds available through ODA implies the necessity of design of innovative funding mechanisms for development. This paper considers several such proposals including an international carbon tax, a Tobin tax, aviation taxes, bit taxes, taxes on international trade, taxes on...

If public expenditure and public revenue are I (0), public debt is sustainable, butif these are I (1) and not cointegrated or have a cointegrating vector differentfrom [1, -1], the public debt is said to be unsustainable. Extant work indicates that India's public debt is unsustainable. The...

This paper is amongst the first to investigate weak-form efficiency of the most developed (G-20) countries in the world. It also measures the impact of the 2007 financial crisis on the stock markets of these countries, in terms of their efficiency. Serial correlation test, ADF unit root test, Lo...

This paper seeks to measure international currency crisis. It has taken the case of the A5 countries in 1997 and has developed a methodology meant to measure and explain currency crisis. The study uses Jha amp; Murthy (2006) approach for constructing composite indices for capturing the causes -...

Extant literature is not unequivocal about IPO pricing. It is almost silent about the misallocation in the capital market. IPO pricing is mostly argued from the point of view of listing gains/losses.This paper seeks to explain the process and outcomes of IPO pricing in the capital market with...

Extant studies treat the impact of entry on concentration and market structure mechanically; with some going further to naively identify fall in concentration as the cause of competition. It is the intention of this paper to critically examine these contentions by studying trends and...