The episode of fiscal crisis in the Euro zone has now become a recurrent theme of debate and has attracted a range of experiences regarding the nature of fiscal turmoil, its causes and effects, which vary widely across individual countries. The confidence in the European monetary system has been...

In order to share some of these innovative experiments with wider range of development professionals, NIRD has prepared a status report on convergence initiatives. [NIRD].

This project attempts to investigate the effect of the introduction of Futures trading in the National Stock Exchange, India (NSE) and get insights into the effect upon the volatility of the NSE. The underlying spot market volatility is estimated using symmetric GARCH methods. Any increase in...

It has been almost one year since exchange-based option trading on individual stocks began in the Indian market. Considering that this is a structural change, it would be interesting to note its impact on the spot market. An analysis suggests that in certain stocks both volatility and returns in...