Johansen's cointegration technique followed by the Vector Error Correction Model (VECM) were employed to examine the causal relationship between National Stock Exchange (NSE) spot and futures markets prices of selected nine oil and gas industry stocks of India. The empirical analysis was...

The paper examines the causal relationship between Nifty spot index and index futures market in India. The empirical analysis was conducted for the daily data series from June 12, 2000 to September 12, 2008. The results reveal that there exists a long-run relationship between Nifty spot and...