Herding Behavior in Futures Market: An Empirical Analysis from India

Volatility of India’s Stock Index Futures Market: an Empirical Analysis

In recent years, the increasing importance of the futures market in the Indian financial markets has received considerable attention from researchers, academicians and financial analysts. This paper is an attempt to examine the time varying properties of volatility of India’s stock index futures market. The application of GARCH class models provides the evidence of the persistence of time varyi...

Herding Behavior In Online P2P Lending: An Empirical Investigation

We study lender behavior in the peer-to-peer (P2P) lending market, where individuals bid on unsecured microloans requested by other individual borrowers. Online P2P exchanges are growing, but lenders in this market are not professional investors. In addition, lenders have to take big risks because loans in P2P lending are granted without collateral. While the P2P lending market shares some char...

An Empirical Study on China's Gold Futures Market Hedging Performance

In the current financial crisis, promoting rapid developments of gold industry, ensuring healthy operations of national economy, and actively developing the gold futures market are very important. Functioning of the gold futures market will determine the gold market maturity and integrity. Risk transfer is one of the two basic functions of futures market. The risk transfer function is realized ...

An Empirical Study of Export and Economic Growth in India since 1960: A Co integration Analysis

Empirical Analysis of the Fractal Features Analysis on London Gold Futures Market

In this paper, we study the fractal characteristics of the futures market. We take the empirical study on London Gold Futures yield by Rescaled Range Analysis, analyzing the fractal characteristics of the futures market. We further determine fractal characteristics and the structure of the nonlinear time series through random disturb the original time series observation sequence. The result of ...