Traditionally Indian banking system provided the much-needed financial support to industry and commerce. Till the onset of financial sector reforms in early 1990s the Indian industry depended heavily on banks and development financial institutions for their working capital and long-term projects...

Economic development going well beyond growth has been the principal agenda of each and all of the governments in India since it became independent more than six decades ago. Many factors, including, in particular, the fact that India chose to follow a democratic political system and that the...

The major objective of this book is to tell the story of how the implementation of reforms in the financial sector, especially in the monetary policy and financial markets, has been and is being designed in an economy that is being liberalized and is gradually opening up. The papers in the book...

Value-at-Risk (VaR) has been widely promoted by the Bank for International Settlement (BIS) as well as central banks of all countries as a way of monitoring and managing market risk and as a basis for setting regulatory minimum capital standards. The revised Basle Accord, implemented in January...

The temporal relationship between the equities market and the derivatives market segments of the stock market has been studied using various methods and by identifying lead-lag relationship between the value of a representative index of the equities market and the price of a corresponding index...

The information theoretic concept of entropy is a useful tool in studying price manipulation in stock market. Sample entropy values computed for the price data of a scrip, for various trading days in the period during which the scrip is reported to be subject to price manipulation, prove to be...