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.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Bijan Roy
Bijan Roy (b 1969) is an electrical engineer from Calcutta University (1991) and a Chartered Financial Analyst from ICFAI (2000). Currently he is pursuing Ph.D from ICFAI University. Before moving to academics he served companies like – L&T and SAIL. As an engineer, his area of specialization is process automation. He was trained for the same in Hoogovens, Ijmuiden, Netherlands. After a stint of 10 years in the engineering domain, he joined ICFAI as faculty member. Primarily, he is involved in distance learning arm of the university. He also teaches in ICFAI Business School and ICFAI Institute of Management Teachers. His area of interest is investments in general and market microstructure and risk management in particular.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Niranjan Swain
Niranjan Swain, a faculty member of ICFAI Business School, has done his Master of Commerce from Utkal University, Ph.D from Banaras Hindu University and Post Graduate Diploma in Finance from Management School, Lancaster University, UK. Dr. Swain has over ten years of research, teaching and professional training experience in reputed management institutes. In addition to his research publications in the area of business analysis and valuation, he has conducted various management development programs in the area of corporate finance and was actively involved in implementing total cost management program and streamlining the credit policy for a group of companies. His present concentration is in the areas of corporate finance and strategic cost management. He has offered consultancy services in the areas of corporate finance and cost management to various public and private organizations. He is the Consulting Editor of The ICFAI Journal of Applied Finance (IJAF), a refereed journal published by the ICFAI University Press.
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