Despite more than a decade of reforms, Indian stock markets have not been able to mobilize and allocate capital effectively. While Indian corporate sector depends predominantly on debt to raise finance, the Indian household depends primarily on banks to invest its savings. A possible explanation...

Some studies show that the performance of option strategies with stock portfolios could depend on other factors or on market conditions. Benninga and Blume (1985) analyzed the optimality of portfolio insurance in complete and incomplete markets, and found that buying put option may be optimal...

We find that weak identification can lead to econometric problems with Fama-MacBeth regressions, including serious size distortions and biased point estimates. Two sources of weak identification are particularly important and have been little studied in the finance literature – small betas and...

Equities tend to give high returns accompanied with high risk level. Commodities exhibit similar nature but exhibit inverse return movements compared to equities. Although, Equities and Commodities have risk- return parity, the volume traded in commodities is much larger and have longer trading...

A comparative study of the Arbitrage Pricing Theory (APT) and the Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM) was done in the Indian scenario on the lines of the methodology proposed by Chen (1983). A factor analysis (maximum likelihood method) was done on the daily returns data of selected scrips from...