Browsing Thesis and Dissertations by Author "Sinha, Sidharth"
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Commodities spot and future markets in India: efficiency, integration, returns and risk
Jaswal, Anshuman (2009)The commodity futures markets in India are one of the fastest growing markets in the world today. The aim of this research is to help develop a better understanding of these markets, as also their relationship with global ... -
Determinants of capital structure decisions in large mature corporations: an empirircal analysis
Deb, Sandip (1995)The objectives of the study were to find answers to the following questions: 1. Are agency cost measures significant determinants of the debt equity choice? (Agency costs implying costs borne by equity shareholders, because ... -
The dynamics of bid-ask spread in an order driven market: the case of Indian stock market
Singh, Priyanka (2011)Bid-ask spread is the most important part of transaction costs for any asset class in the financial market. It affects the way information gets impounded into prices and thus price discovery of the asset. Bid ask spread, ... -
Essays in mergers and acquisitions, governance structures and firm valuation
Kinshuk, Saurabh (2013)Essay 1: Private Benefits, Wealth-risk Sensitivity and Conglomeration Lifecycle as Determinants of Ownership Structure In the first essay we investigate the cross-sectional determinants of ownership and examine the effect ... -
An examination of initial and aftermarket returns of initial public offerings of equity shares
Majmudar, Utkarsh (1997)Initial public offerings (IPOs) are ordinary equity shares issued by companies that have not previously issued equity shares to the public: Existing literature in finance suggests that the issue price is generally lower ... -
Interdependence structure of Indian financial markets: an empirical investigation
Sarathi, N. Vijaya (2000)The financial sector reforms in India have ushered in wide ranging changes in the financial markets in India. Beginning in the mid-nineties, many of the barriers that had hitherto restricted the flow of funds across the ... -
Interim financial reports: comparative practices and evidence of usefulness in the Indian context
Venkatesh, S. (1995)Interim Financial Reports (IFRs) are financial reports published by Companies between two successive Annual Reports. IFRs may be published every half year as in the UK or every quarter as in the USA. lFRs were introduced ... -
Intraday activity patterns and market microstructure effects in Indian capital markets: an empirical investigation using high frequency data
Agarwalla, Sobhesh Kumar (2010)This study analyzes the intraday activity (volatility, volume and trade frequency) patterns and market microstructure effects in the Indian capital market using a large dataset. Intraday 5-minutes volume and volatility are ... -
Liquidity: effect on securities returns in Indian capital markets
Pandey, Ajay (1994)In the mainstream literature of finance, Liquidity of an asset has not been considered an important determinant of its expected return or its price. There have been, however, few empirical and theoretical works which point ... -
Modeling price behavior and convenience yield in Indian commodity futures markets
Kumar, Brajesh (2011)Organized commodity derivatives markets in India are relatively new. After the commencement of trading of futures on the national commodity exchanges (NCDEX, MCX, and NMCE) in 2003-2004, the trading volume and value have ... -
Occupational withdrawal: a study of Indian MNOs in the International Shipping Industry
Sharma, Krishan Kumar (1998)Occupation in a popular sense connotes the kind of work performed by an individual for livelihood. Change in the kind of work performed declares occupational withdrawal from the individual's perspective and occupational ... -
Pricing behaviour of the Indian capital market: a comparative analysis in the CAPM, the APT and the macro-economic context
Sood, Anil K. (1995)Research regarding the behaviour of the Indian capital market has been very limited. The risk-return relationship has been studied using only the Capital Asset Pricing Model; and the factor-structure of the return-generating ... -
Regulatory reforms and state supervised corporate bankruptcy reorganization
Abidi, Qambar (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, 2019)Bankruptcy code is an important determinant of the balance of control between creditors and debtors, during the state-supervised bankruptcy resolution process. In this thesis, across three essays, we study two bankruptcy ... -
Stock market reaction to macroeconomic events
Rao, S.V.D. Nageswara (1996)The primary role of capital markets is allocation of capital among competing sectors of the economy. As a result of economic liberalization and reforms in the financial sector, Indian capital markets are expected to play ...