macroeconomic variables and stock market indices 1.1 Introduction and Background The financial system is considered to be the key to economic growth. A well developed and sound financial system promotes investment by the identification and financing of profitable business opportunities‚ through the mobilization of savings‚ the efficient allocation of resources‚ by helping to diversify risks and by facilitating the exchange of goods and services. (Mishkin‚ 2001). As such‚ stock markets have assumed a developmental
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Literature Review on Bangladesh Stock Market Literature Review: 1 Before the decade of eighty much of the stock market literature viewed the present value of dividends to be the principal determinant of market return of stocks. LeRoy and Porter (1981) and Shiller (1981) found that under the assumption of constant discount factor stock prices were too volatile to be consistent with movement in future dividends. The decomposition of stock price movements is very sensitive to what assumption
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FINANCE TESTING SEASONALITY IN THE INDIAN STOCK MARKET A Project Report submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree of Master of Business Administration Under the guidance of: Dr. S.K. Tuteja Submitted by: Sachin Garg F-045‚ MBA(FT) 2011-13 Faculty of Management Studies University of Delhi Delhi – 110007 CERTIFICATE This is to certify that this project report titled “Testing Seasonality in the Indian Stock Market”‚ submitted in partial fulfilment of the
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Review of Business Research Papers Vol. 5 No. 1 January 2009‚ Pp. 389- 404 Calendar Effects in Pakistani Stock Market Shahid Ali* And Muhammad Akbar** The paper investigates calendar anomalies in the Pakistani stock market by taking a data of stock returns of fifteen years from November 1991 to October 2006. The existence of calendar anomalies could endanger the assumption of Efficient Market Hypothesis. Using one Factor ANOVA the main hypotheses about equality in returns on daily‚ weekly and monthly
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economy continued to grow weaker. The stock market had been falling at such a rapid pace‚ that it had become questionable on whether or not the United States would be able to recover‚ because it had led the United States into a depressing period in history. The stock market had officially reached it’s lowest point on October 29‚ 1929. Leading up to this day‚ there were several stock markets across the country that had begun to lose value of majority of their stocks‚ compared to the beginning of the decade
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1929‚ known as Black Thursday marked the worst stock market crash in U.S. history as unsettled investors sold off their investments as the skyrocketing stock prices plummeted into a free fall. Yet‚ what influenced the initial price of a stock to increase and how did the market crash suddenly? At a fundamental level‚ the supply and demand in the market determine the stock price. If more stock investors are buying stocks than selling‚ the price of the stock increases. While‚ if more investors are selling
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COMMON Economics 9 (1981) 139-183. STOCK REPURCHASES North-Holland Publishing Company AND MARKET SIGNALLING An Empirical Study* Theo VERMAELEN lJ/niversity of British Columbia‚ Vancouver‚ BC‚ Canada V6T 2 W5 Received January 1980‚ final version received January 1981 This paper examines the pricing behavior of securities of firms which repurchase their own shares. The results are consistent with a market in which investors price securities such that
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emphasis was put on the development of equity markets. India also followed this path. Stock markets grew rapidly in India during the late 1980s and early 1990s. Capital markets have taken a prominent place in the developing countries financial system during the last decade. Given this backdrop‚ it is important to assess the impact of stock markets on a countrys economic development. One of the most obvious and direct effect of the stock market is on the corporate sector of a country. This
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investment‚ market capitalization and adjusted on stock market using time series data from 1991 to 2011. A result shows that there is a significant relationship between foreign direct investment and stock market‚ as well as there is also a significant relationship between adjusted saving and stock market but there is insignificant relationship between market capitalization and stock market. Foreign direct investment‚ Market capitalization and Adjusted saving explains 90% of variation in the stock market
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efficiency of such indexes. This study investigates whether stock market indexes based on an array of cap-indifferent measures of company size are more mean–variance efficient than those based on market cap. These “Fundamental” indexes were found to deliver consistent‚ significant benefits relative to standard cap-weighted indexes. The true importance of the difference may have been best noted by Benjamin Graham: In the short run‚ the market is a voting machine‚ but in the long run‚ it is a weighing
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