Stock Market refers to a market place where investors buy and sell stock. The National Stock Exchange is the largest stock exchange in India in terms of daily turnover and trading volume in both equity and derivative trading. An efficient market is one in which the market price of a security is...

The Fractal Market Hypothesis questions the Efficient Market Hypothesis which asserts that all the available information may not be reflected in the market prices, since investors may not directly react to information, according to the information being received. Instead, investors may react...

More the financial markets become ‘peopled,' more behavioural patterns are observed in individual investors. The individual investor's attitudes and opinion towards investing must have a significant impact on the stock market. The aim of this study is to analyse the individual Investor's...

Fractal Analysis assesses the fractal characteristics of data. It consists of several methods to assign a fractal dimension and other fractal characteristics in a data set which may be a theoretical data set or a pattern of signals extracted from phenomena including natural geometric objects,...

Mergers, acquisitions and corporate control have emerged as major forces in the modern financial and economic environment. The mergers and acquisitions in India have changed dramatically after the liberalization of Indian economy. To assess the impact of an “event” announcement of a tender...

The new issue market deals with new securities issued for the first time. The success of new issue market also depends on pricing of IPOs. There can be either underpricing or overpricing. Nowadays the after market performance of IPOs has received increased attention. The present paper is carried...

The paper examined the impact of converging with IFRS, on stock market performance of 12 pharmaceuticals companies listed in S&P BSE 100. The time frame of six years from 2013 to 2018 was selected and Ordinary Least Square (OLS) regression model was used for the analysis. The result revealed...

The presence of the Seasonal or Monthly Effect in stock returns has been reported in several developed and emerging stock markets. This study investigates the existence of seasonality in India's stock market. The Efficient Market Hypothesis suggests that all securities are priced efficiently to...