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Original Article
Open Access
Are Liquidity and Credit Risk Key Determinants of Corporate Credit Spreads (CCS) in India?
Lithin B. M., Suman Chakraborty, Nikhil M. N.
· pp. 8–26
DOI: 10.17010/ijf/2023/v17i6/172773
Purpose: The crumble of the financial markets through the recent crises wobbled precariousness in the corporate credit spreads (CCS) critical for risk management and bond pricing. Against this backdrop, this study investigated the role of liquidity and credit risk on …
Keywords:
bond pricing, risk management, corporate bonds, GMM, bid-ask spread, emerging market, panel regression
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Original Article
Open Access
Factors Impacting Corporate Social Responsibility of Top Firms Listed in India
Vikas Behal, Rajinder Kumar Uppal
· pp. 27–44
DOI: 10.17010/ijf/2023/v17i6/171974
Purpose: The present research work examined the sample of Indian firms to determine the factors impacting top organizations’ corporate social responsibility (CSR) across selected industrial sectors. The objective of this study was to find out the significant determinants of CSR …
Keywords:
corporate social responsibility, financial and non-financial variables, fixed effects, ownership structure
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Original Article
Open Access
What Determines the Efficiency of Working Capital Among Rajasthan MSMEs?
Saurabh Chadha, Deepak Kumar Tripathi, Ankita Tripathi
· pp. 45–62
DOI: 10.17010/ijf/2023/v17i6/171942
Purpose: This research aimed to gather insights into working capital management (WCM) practices and the factors that influence its efficiency inside the Indian MSMEs’ manufacturing sector using organization variables. Methodology: For the research, the paper used panel regression methodologies on …
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working capital efficiency, MSMEs, Rajasthan, cash conversion efficiency, cash conversion cycle, manufacturing
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Original Article
Open Access
Economic Policy Uncertainty and Government Bond Prices
Muhammadriyaj Faniband, Pravin Jadhav
· pp. 63–73
DOI: 10.17010/ijf/2023/v17i6/171549
Purpose: This paper investigated the impact of economic policy uncertainty (EPU) in the US, UK, Japan, Italy, India, Germany, France, China, Canada, and Brazil on Indian government bond prices using a new dataset of the Clearing Corporation of India Limited …
Keywords:
economic policy uncertainty, EPU, Clearing Corporation of India Limited, broad return index, liquid return index, total return index, government bonds, bond prices, India, quantile regression