Regulators worldwide have introduced measures such as a fee on high order-to-trade ratio (OTR) to slow down high frequency trading, which existing research shows as having mixed results about its impact on market quality. We study a natural experiment in the Indian stock market where such a fee...

This paper analyses the systemic risk in an emerging market context, with two innovations. It uses the average of the percentile ranking of three widely used measures of systemic risk of a firm to calculate a single systemic risk index (SRI) for the firm. It then uses the SRI to identify...

We evaluate a major Indian investor protection reform that attempted to reduce commissions tied to mutual fund sales by banning the distribution fees that mutual funds had previously earmarked for commissions. We identify the policy impact by comparing funds charging high versus low distribution...

Commissions-motivated agents have historically helped the development of many markets, but research suggests brokers motivated by commissions sometimes steer consumers towards inappropriate products. This issue is particularly important in household financial markets where consumers may be...