The paper studies the impact of buy and sell recommendations issued by analysts on the stock prices of companies listed on the National Stock Exchange (NSE) of India. Event study methodology is used to compute the abnormal returns around the event window, which is taken as -10 to 10. The study...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to study the empirical relationship between order imbalance and returns in the backdrop of structural changes in the Indian market. Design/methodology/approach – The study makes use of hypothesis testing and dummy variable regression to investigate the...

Traditional time series or cross-sectional regression procedures yield mixed evidence on maintained hypotheses about the determinants of international equity returns. This paper re-examines how three theory-suggested factors affect equity returns and how the test results may differ between...

Traditional time series or cross-sectional regression procedures yield mixed evidence on maintained hypotheses about the determinants of international equity returns. This paper re-examines how three theory-suggested factors affect equity returns and how the test results may differ between...

Daily price limits are criticized for their role in disrupting price adjustment process. We propose a flexible price limits mechanism as an alternative to daily price limit rules. First, we identify volatility spill-over and consecutive price limit hits as the source for disrupting informed...

A stock exchange's efficiency can be measured by its liquidity and price discovery mechanism. An exchange that provides price discovery will have high liquidity. By measuring the speed of stock price adjustment to its intrinsic value with the arrival of new information, we can understand the...

We document the effects of group affiliation on the initial performance of 2,713 initial public offerings (IPOs) in India under three regulatory regimes during the period 1990-2004. We distinguish between two competing hypotheses regarding group affiliation: the "certification" and the...

This study examines securities price reaction to announcements of rights issues by listed Indian firms during the period 1997-2005. We document a positive but statistically insignificant price reaction to such announcements. The price reaction is significantly more negative for firms with a...

In the year 2007, Indian capital market regulator-SEBI, introduced a unique certification mechanism for IPOs whereby all IPOs have to undergo mandatory quality grading by independent rating agencies. In this paper we argue that such objective, independent and exogenous certifying mechanism...