Browsing by Author "Jacob, Joshy"

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    • " ICICI Equity Issue 2007." 

      Agarwalla, Sobhesh Kumar; Jacob, Joshy; Varma, Jayanth R. (2012-09-11)

    • Impact of continuous auditing on earnings quality and audit fees 

      Desai, Naman; Jacob, Joshy; Tripathy, Arindam (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2016-03)
      The use of continuous auditing (CA) has been promoted as a means to improve the governance mechanisms of companies. Prior experimental research also indicates that external auditors tend to rely more and spend relatively ...

    • Impact of price path on disposition bias 

      Bansal, Avijit; Jacob, Joshy (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2018)
      Recent studies, in experimental markets, have illustrated the incremental influence of price path on investor decisions. We empirically demonstrate that the nature of price path significantly impacts the degree of disposition ...

    • Impact of regulation change on earnings quality in India 

      Gupta, Monika (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2017)
      The primary objective of this thesis is to examine the impact of regulation change on earnings quality. This work is organized into two distinct chapters. The first chapter examines the impact of auditor appointment ...

    • Impact of the Introduction of Call Auction on price discovery: Evidence from the Indian Stock Market Using High-Frequency Data 

      Agarwalla, Sobhesh Kumar; Jacob, Joshy; Pandey, Ajay (2010)
      Call markets are claimed to aggregate information and facilitate price discovery where continuous markets may fail. Its advantage, however, comes at the cost of imme- diacy. Possibly due to faulty design or due to \thick ...

    • Impact of the introduction of call auction on price discovery: evidence from the Indian stock market using high-frequency data 

      Agarwalla, Sobhesh Kumar; Jacob, Joshy; Pandey, Ajay (Elsevier, 2015)
      Call markets are claimed to aggregate information and facilitate price discovery where continuous markets may fail. The impact of the introduction of call auction has not been found uniformly beneficial, possibly due to ...

    • The Indian aviation sector: scope of consolidation of airline and airport operations 

      Choudhary, Aman; Puranik, Omkar (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2020)
      Merger is an arrangement between two or more companies when they decided to merge their business (assets, liabilities, and equity) to create a new entity. On the other hand, acquisition is a process when one company takes ...

    • The influence of the grey market on the performance of IPOs in India 

      Rau, Adoor Vikramaditya; K.S., Ajay Kumar (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2011-08-22)

    • The Interplay between sentiment and MAX: evidence from an emerging market 

      Gupta, Nilesh; Jacob, Joshy (SAGE Publications, 2021-01-21)
      Investors with lottery preferences are known to concentrate on stocks with rare but extreme past returns. We investigate the extent to which lottery preference, measured by the MAX variable, varies with the market-wide ...

    • Jhunjhunwala’s alpha 

      Rai, Abhishek; Bhuyan, Priyabrata; Gupta, Varun (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2018)
      Smart beta: the new evolving approach Idea of combining the best elements of the two strategies has appealed to many investors and researchers. It has given rise to algorithm-based trading strategies where money is invested ...

    • Lender moral hazard in state-owned banks: evidence from an emerging economy 

      Gopalakrishnan, Balagopal; Jacob, Joshy; Pandey, Ajay (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2018-07-04)
      We examine the credit risk-choices of the public sector banks (PSBs) in India with a novel dataset that is able to trace the borrowers to their banks. We determine the likelihood of the ownership type of the lender bank ...

    • Lessons from Chinese commodities market 

      Jacob, Joshy (Business Line, 2021-03-11)

    • Mandatory IPO Grading: Does It Help Pricing E ciency? 

      Jacob, Joshy; Agarwalla, Sobhesh Kumar (2013-11-25)
      The paper examines the market impact of a unique IPO certi cation recently introduced in India mandatory grading of IPOs by a credit rating agency. The grading was expected to improve the IPO pricing e ciency by providing ...

    • Mandatory IPO grading: does it help pricing efficiency? 

      Agarwalla, Sobhesh Kumar; Jacob, Joshy (SAGE Publications, 2015)
      The article examines the influence of mandatory grading on the demand and pricing efficiency of initial public offerings (IPOs) in India. The study involves cross-sectional regressions of underpricing and demand as dependent ...

    • Market overreaction to poor long-run performance? a case of repurchase firms in India 

      Agarwalla, Sobhesh Kumar; Jacob, Joshy; Vasudevan, Ellapulli (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2015)
      We find significant positive abnormal returns around the announcement of both tender and open market repurchases in India. This suggests that the equity markets in India regard repurchase announcements as positive information ...

    • Market timing ability of Indian firms in open market repurchases 

      Agarwalla, Sobhesh Kumar; Jacob, Joshy; Vasudevan, Ellapulli (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2013)
      The paper examines the market timing ability of Indian firms engaged in open market repur- chases. The study is primarily motivated by the unique disclosure feature of repurchases in India, where the disclosures are far ...

    • Non-euclidean analytics: inference, learning and applications 

      Majumdar, Sourav (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2023)
      "Several classical statistical approaches assume that the data lives in a Euclidean space. However, such methods do not apply to non-Euclidean data. In this dissertation, we develop methods and theory to analyse certain ...

    • Performance of quality factor in Indian equity market 

      Jacob, Joshy; K.P., Pradeep; Varma, Jayanth R. (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2022-12-06)
      We study the characteristics of Quality factor (QMJ) in India, which is the sec- ond largest emerging market. Dimensions of quality factor are impacted by the weaker enforcement of corporate governance norms in emerging ...

    • Popular Vehicles and Services Ltd.: The Challenge of Growing a Family Business 

      Jacob, Joshy (Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2013)
      Based in Kerala, Popular Vehicles and Services Ltd. (PVSL) is a leading automobile dealer of Maruti Suzuki India Ltd (MSIL). PVSL is categorized as a Platinum Plus dealer by MSIL, an honour reserved for top performing ...

    • Popular Vehicles and Services Ltd.: The Challenge of Growing a Family Business 

      Varkkey, Biju; Unnithan, Anandakuttan; Jacob, Joshy (Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2013)
      Based in Kerala, Popular Vehicles and Services Ltd. (PVSL) is a leading automobile dealer of Maruti Suzuki India Ltd (MSIL). PVSL is categorized as a Platinum Plus dealer by MSIL, an honour reserved for top performing ...