Proceedings of the International Conference on Business and Finance (Volume 1)

Here is a four-part series on the proceedings of the international conference on business and finance. Of these four volumes, Volume I is a compilation of research papers that focus on the theoretical concepts of corporate and international finance and the response of various Indian venture capitalists. Volume II consists of the findings of researchers and practitioners who have studied the link between stock returns and macroeconomic variables, and have then debated on the relationship between stock prices and money which works on a cause and effect basis in the deregulation of financial markets. This and much more in this volume about the market reaction to policy changes can be read here in great detail such as Internet-based trading, clearing and settlement; risk factors in Indian capital markets, etc. Volume III consists of a variety of conceptual and empirical research papers that look into the aspect of signaling of corporate dividend announcement, risk perception of individual investors, trade-off between risk and return, challenging asset allocation due to asymmetric information, fuzzy logic and the use of genetic algorithms to explain the well-known behaviors of financial markets and analysis on performance evaluation of mutual funds, among others. Volume IV begins with papers on Financial Reporting and Corporate Governance-interesting insights on Extensible Business Reporting Language and Reporting on Internet by Indian Banks are included. It is followed by issues in Banking and Insurance along with a study on the Customers Perception on Infinity Banking Services of ICICI Bank Ltd.