This policy brief aims to contribute to filling the knowledge gap and presenting a sex-disaggregated snapshot of the distribution of students across energy related higher education educational programs as well as the traditional Science, Technology, Education, and Math (STEM) fields, in tertiary...

Volatility spillover informs whether the information in one market impacts the information in another. This paper examines whether oil market volatility spills over to the equity markets of selected SAARC countries. The study uses data from February 2013 to September 2019 to obtain updated...

The purpose of this study is to investigate the potential effects of corporate governance (CG) elements on corporate social responsibility (CSR) disclosure. The annual reports of companies for the year 2007-2011 are examined to analyze the relationship between CG and CSR reporting. It considers...

This report describes the current state of play in the private diesel generation business and assesses how to invest in and create new markets for private sector participation within the green energy sector

This paper assesses the costs and benefits of Iraq's own energy transition from fossil fuel dependent power sector to one with a significantly higher share of renewables amid an accelerating global energy transition. The paper quantifies the returns of Iraq's energy transition, its high exposure...

The relation between idiosyncratic risk and stock returns is currently a topic of debate in the academic literature. So far the evidence regarding the relation is mixed. This study aims to investigate the cross-sectional relation between idiosyncratic risk and stock returns in the Indian stock...

The poor empirical record of the CAPM paved the way towards the development of multi-factor asset pricing models. The three-factor model of Fama and French (1993) is regarded as a ground-breaking multi-factor asset pricing model. This paper examines the performance of the three-factor model of...

This study links the role of momentum and illiquidity (as proxied by Amihud's Illiq) in the cross section of stock returns in India for the period 2000-2012. Illiquidity premium is more pronounced among winners. Illiquid winners outperform liquid winners by an average 2.7% per month. We report...

This paper examines the idiosyncratic volatility (IV) puzzle in the Indian stock market for the period 1999–2014. Univariate and bivariate sorting, as well as cross-section regressions, suggest a positive relation between idiosyncratic volatility and future stock returns. However, this...