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- Title
FOREIGN INSTITUTIONAL INVESTOR'S IMPACT ON STOCK PRICES IN INDIA.
- Authors
Bansal, Anand; Pasricha, J. S.
- Abstract
This paper studies the impact of market opening to FIIs, on Indian stock market behavior. India announced its policy regarding the opening of stock market to FIIs for investment in equity and related instruments on 14th September 1992. Using stock market data related to Bombay Stock Exchange, for both before and after the FIIs policy announcement day. An empirical examination has been conducted to assess the impact of the market opening on the returns and volatility of stock return. We found that while there is no significant changes in the Indian stock market average returns, volatility is significantly reduced after India unlocked its stock market to foreign investors.
- Subjects
INDIA; STOCK prices; STOCK exchanges; MARKET volatility; INSTITUTIONAL investments; RETURNS on sales; FOREIGN investments; SECURITIES trading volume; EFFICIENT market theory
- Publication
Journal of Academic Research in Economics, 2009, Vol 1, Issue 2, p174
- ISSN
2066-0855
- Publication type
Article