This article empirically tests the two competing theories of capital structure: Trade-off theory against Pecking Order theory using the time series hypothesis. This study is performed for an emerging market context taking the case of Indian firms with a sample from 10 industries for the period...

This paper is based on an empirical study of volatility, risk premium and seasonality in risk-return relation of the Indian stock and commodity markets. This investigation is conducted by means of the General Autoregressive Conditional Heteroscedasticity in the mean model (GARCH-in-Mean)...

This paper examines price and volatility spillovers across North American, European and Asian stock markets. The return spillover is modeled through VAR(15) in which fifteen world indices, representative of their stock market are considered. The effect of same day return in explaining the return...

This study investigates the nature of relationship between price and trading volume for 50 Indian stocks. Firstly the contemporaneous and asymmetric relation between price and volume are examined. Then the dynamic relation between returns and volume using VAR, Granger causality, variance...

This study investigates the nature of relationship between price and trading volume for 50 Indian stocks. Firstly the contemporaneous and asymmetric relation between price and volume are examined. Then we examine the dynamic relation between returns and volume using VAR, Granger causality,...

This paper investigates interdependence of fifteen world indices including an Indian market index in terms of return and volatility spillover effect. Interdependence of Indian stock market with other fourteen world markets in terms of long run integration, short run dependence (return spillover)...

This study investigates the diversification benefits between the Indian, US and Japanese stock markets for the period January, 2000- February, 2008. Firstly tri-variate Johansen cointegration is run to see for the presence of long term cointegration. No co integrating vector is found among the...

Using daily prices of both spot and three futures for seven commodities in India, mean reversion/randomness is investigated. The commodities under investigation are: castor seed, gold, guar seed, maize, silver, soybean and soyoil. Traditional unit root tests as well as robust Variance ratio test...

This paper investigates interdependence of fifteen world indices including an Indian market index in terms of return and volatility spillover effect. These markets are that of Canada, China, France, Germany, Hong-Kong, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Pakistan, Singapore, Taiwan, United...