The present study attempts to examine the random movements in stock indices in the Indian equity market. It tests the random walk hypotheses in daily, weekly and monthly returns of six Indian stock market indices from January 2000 to October 2009. The indices considered for the purpose of the...

Proponents of Semi strong form of Efficient Market Hypothesis (EMH) claim that security prices fully reflect all publicly available information in a rapid and unbiased manner. Opponents of this Hypothesis question its validity by explaining various anomalies in stock markets. One such anomaly...

This study utilizes few selected performance evaluation techniques on a sample of 36 Indian mutual fund schemes, over the period of January 2001 to September 2009. The broad based S&P CNX NIFTY is used in the study as a benchmark. The study measures the performance using Capital Asset Pricing...

One of the most important developments in the field of finance during last forty years is the mutual fund performance evaluation technique. The traditional techniques use the unconditional moments of the returns. Such techniques cannot capture the time-varying element of expected return. As a...

This paper calculates the Performance Change measure (PCM) developed by Grinblatt amp; Titman (Journal of Business, 1993, vol. 66, no. 1)for a sample of 50 Indian mutual funds over a period of 26 months. PCM as a measure has some advantages compared to the traditional measures, the most...

The study aims at examining the efficiency of futures market with a sample of 11 commodities traded on National Commodity and Derivatives Exchange Limited (NCDEX). Augmented Dickey-Fuller (ADF) and Phillips-Perron (PP) tests are applied for testing stationarity and order of integration of both...

The study attempts to examine if there is any shift in the price discovery behavior of spot and futures markets between pre-crisis period and post-crisis period. All those stocks which are available for trading in futures segment since the launch of futures trading on November 9, 2001 to...

The study aims at observing the impact of listing 106 Single Stock Futures (SSFs) and 31 Single Stock Options (SSOs) on the market value of their respective underlying stocks using event study methodology. The study defines event in two ways: (a) the day on which NSE releases the circular...