We have taken pepper as a commodity to explore the co-integrating vectors, nature/direction of causality, and subsequently, we try to model volatility spillover in Indian pepper futures and spot markets employing Johansen‟s co-integration, VECM, Granger causality and variance decomposition...

This paper is an attempt to examine the reliability and usefulness of ex ante measures of portfolio formulation by selecting securities from a well-defined sampling frame. Four indices are employed to achieve the objectives of the study, namely, Sharpe index, Treynor index, Jensen index and...

Role of technology in governance and development has been an area of discourse that has generated a renewed interest among practitioners and policy makers to address the challenges of sustainable development. This essay explores the interlinkage between the attributes of technology, governance,...

Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Development of India’s Commodity Futures Markets -- Chapter 3: Literature on Farmers’ Participation in Futures -- Chapter 4: Futures Market Efficiency in Price Discovery and Dissemination -- Chapter 5: Field Survey, Observation and Farmer Profile --...