Financial Markets
Trading, Pricing, Volatility and Efficiency
- Alternative investment funds
- Behavioral finance
- Corporate bond market pricing, trading and efficiency
- Financial market efficiency, asset pricing and volatility
- Foreign exchange market: trading, parity and efficiency
- Government debt market delivery, efficiency and trading
- Insurance and reinsurance-pricing, default and solvency
- Money market efficiency, delivery and volatility
- Mutual funds, portfolio and fund management
- Non deliverable forwards market
Banking and Risk Management
- Basel and bank management
- Liquidity and asset-liability management
- MCLR, BPLR, base rate and pricing of loans
- Modeling credit risk, market risk and operational risk
- Quantification, pricing and management of risk
- Risk-based pricing
- Techniques and principles of model validation
- Treasury management
Financial Inclusion and Payment System
- Digital Finance
- Financial inclusion measurement framework
- Financing for micro-enterprises
- Fraud regulation in payment system
- Integrated payment system architecture
- Payment banks-strategy for business expansion
- Retail payment system
- Risk management in payment system
- Sustainability of SHGs
- Unstructured and structured payment system
Derivatives: Trading, Pricing and Risk Management
- Commodity derivatives trading, volatility and pricing
- Credit derivatives and credit default swaps
- Currency futures
- Delivery and settlement system
- Equity options valuation and pricing
- Exchange traded funds
- Implied volatility and volatility trading
- Interest rate futures
High Frequency Finance
- Assessment of trading execution cost
- Bid-ask spreads and cost segregation
- Big data framework for asset pricing
- Big data modeling
- Information asymmetry and adverse selection models
- Limit order book dynamics
- Market microstructure and stock exchange governance
- Portfolio analytics
Corporate Finance
Corporate Funding and Capital Structure
- Angel investments
- Capital structure and liquidity
- Crowd funding
- Entrepreneurial finance
- Investment uncertainty, market timing and capital
- structure
- Managerial behavior, agency costs and capital structure
- Private financing
- Profit planning and capital structure
- Start-Up funding and valuation
- Venture funding
Corporate Governance, Mergers and Acquisitions
- Audit practices in corporate governance
- Business ethics in corporate governance
- Corporate governance and CSR
- Corporate governance and ownership
- Corporate profitability and governance
- Cross border mergers and acquisitions
- Gender diversity and governance
Corporate Dividends
- Determinants of corporate dividend policy
- Industry classification and dividend policy
- Information content of dividend changes
- Liquidity, profitability and leverage reaction to dividend change
- Market reaction to substantial shifts in dividend policy
- Ownership structure and dividend payouts
Working Capital Management
- Adverse selection effects of corporate cash holdings
- Operating Cycle and Cash Conversion Cycle
- Corporate governance and cash holdings
- Determinants of corporate cash holding
- Family control and cash holdings
- Optimum cash holding and inventory efficiency
- Working capital efficiency and cash holdings