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The competition between stock market investing and real estate has been going on since the mid 1960s, in order to prove to be the best source of investment returns. The stock market was regarded as a place to invest, whereas [...]
Inflation in India, essentially the food price inflation, is rising at a fas t clip, threatening to derail the growth momentum and triggering a rise i n the interest rate.
The situation is quite alarming. For the rich and upper middle-class people, this is not a big issue as they spend a very small proportion of [...]
One of the major accomplishments of recent corporate governance research has been to expose the risks confronted by minority shareholders in public companies around the globe. Corporate ownership structures such as pyramids, business groups, and dual class shares leave control in the hands of a limited set of blockholders – exposing minority investors to potential [...]
The first decade of the 21st century has been a rollercoaster ride for economic activity. Business confidence was high at the start of the millennium. This was particularly fuelled by the growth of the internet as a means of buying and selling. A lot of companies have developed websites and there has been a rapid [...]
This paper provides insight into the credit rating agencies’ methodology for rating the senior debt used to finance leverage buy-out transactions. In particular, the study focuses on examining if the initial credit ratings of leverage buy-out are influenced by the financial strategies and reputation of the private equity sponsor managing the deal. We also examine [...]
According to the Efficient Market Hypothesis stock prices should be affected by the release of new information. In this paper we analyse the effect of newspapers on stock prices provided that the newspapers do not have access to private information.
This research paper was published as University essay from Handelshögskolan i Stockholm.
To find an answer to [...]
Many public sector enterprises, some owned by the central government and others owned by the state governments, are facing a crisis of survival today. This is on account of intense competition setting in by the opening of Indian economy on the one hand and the reluctance of the respective governments to support them and fund [...]
Poor and Unrealistic capital budgeting has long been the bane of socio-economic development in Africa and of course, Nigeria. The issue of capital, investment and how it was undertaken in the capital budgeting process thus constitutes a major concern of this paper. Even in the midst of vast economic and resources cum endowment, African countries [...]
India has the most inefficient bureaucracy in Asia and red-tape is much worse than in China, says a survey. In the ranking of 12 countries, India has been named as having the most inefficient bureaucracy followed by Indonesia and the Philippines, according to the survey of expatriate business executives conducted by the Hong Kong-based Political [...]
We have recently experienced an unprecedented time in the global financial markets. Not surprisingly, risk managers and the techniques they employ are under fire from market participants, regulators, financial reporters, and shareholders alike. Ironically, over the last fifteen years we have witnessed significant advances in the risk management profession, from both the institutional and regulatory [...]