The Dynamics of foreign portfolio inflows and equity returns in India

The Foreign Institutional Investors (FIIs) have emerged as important players in the Indianequity market in the recent past. This paper makes an attempt to develop anunderstanding of the dynamics of the trading behavior of FIIs and returns in the Indianequity market by analyzing daily and monthly data. From our analysis we find that thereis strong evidence of FIIs chasing trends and adopting positive feedback trading strategiesat the aggregate level on a daily basis. However there is no evidence of positive feedbacktrading on a monthly basis. The results of our analysis also indicate that foreign investorshave a tendency to herd together in their trading activity in India. The trading behaviorand biases of the FIIs do not appear to have a destabilizing impact on the equity market

A characterization of the composite price variable to approximate a price aggregator function in the Quadratic Almost Ideal Demand System

In investigating linear approximations to the Quadratic Almost Ideal Demand System (QUAIDS), Matsuda (2006) proposed a composite variable to approximate a price aggregator function. This paper provides an axiomatic characterization of this composite price variable.QUAIDS, Linear approximation, Price aggregator, Characterization

Asian Economic Integration: ASEAN+3+1 or ASEAN+1s?

In this paper an attempt is made to evaluate the most efficient approach to regional economic integration in Asia. For the purpose, Asia is defined as inclusive of ASEAN, the plus three economies of China, Japan, Korea and India that is the ASEAN plus four. Given that ASEAN is an existing regional bloc in Asia, alternative approaches to the alignment of the plus four economies with ASEAN for the formation of the ASEAN+4 trade bloc have been evaluated to determine if there are efficiency costs by way of distortion in the patterns of trade away from those expected on the basis of comparative advantage. The findings of our analysis underscore the efficiency of a prior alignment with ASEAN for all the plus four economies.regional economic integration, Asia, efficiency cost, comparative advantage, first mover advantage, trade diversion.