This book discusses capital markets and investment decision-making, focusing on the globalisation of the world economy. It presents empirically tested results from Indian and Southwest Asian stock markets and offers valuable insights into the working of Indian capital markets. The book is divided into four parts: the first part examines capital-market operations, particularly clearance and settlement processes, and stock market operations. The second part then addresses the functioning of global markets and investment decisions; more specifically it explores calendar anomalies, dependencies, overreaction effect, causality effect and stock returns volatility in South Asia, U.S. and global stock markets as a whole. Part three covers issues relating to capital structure, values of firm and investment strategies. Lastly, part four discusses emerging issues in finance like behavioral finance, Islamic finance, and international financial reporting standards.
The book fillsthe gap in the existing finance literature and helps fund managers and individual investors make more accurate investment decisions.
Author Biography:
Professor Raj S. Dhankar, a thought leader and institution builder, is currently the Chief Executive Officer (CEO ) Higher Education, Apeejay Education Society, New Delhi. He is also a Professor of Finance and former Dean of Faculty of Management Studies (FMS), University of Delhi, India. Earlier, he has held administrative positions like the Vice-Chancellor, Amity University, Raipur; Vice-Chancellor, Ansal University, Gurgaon; Vice-Chancellor, Maharshi Dayanand University, Rohtak, Haryana; and Director, Centre for Canadian Studies, University of Delhi in the past. He holds a PhD (1983) and Post-Doctoral Studies (PDS) (1987) in the area of finance. Dr. Dhankar is actively involved in teaching, research, training and consultancy in the field of finance since 1977. He had been the recipient of Commonwealth Scholarship for PhD program in UK and Post-Doctoral Studies (PDS) Scholarship for USA by Government of India. Dr. Dhankar earned his PDS in Finance from John Anderson Graduate School of Management, University of California, Los Angeles, USA in 1987, and has taught in various international universities including University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), University of Southern California (USC), USA and Lakehead University, Canada. He has completed several major research projects with financial assistance from national and international agencies. He has four books to his credit, and has published over one hundred critical research papers in the area of finance in major national and international journals. Dr. Dhankar is on the Governing Bodies/Councils of various educational institutions, and Director & Trustee on the Boards of several public and private sector organizations. He is a member of various committees in the Central and State Governments. He is a widely travelled person and has worked with colleagues from USA, UK, Canada, Japan and Taiwan on various research projects. He has been honored with several awards including Best Vice-Chancellor of the year in 2016 and “Haryana Ratan” in recognition of his contribution to the welfare of society and institution building.
