Babitha Rohit

St. Joseph Engineering College · Department of Business Administration

To mobilise the savings of relatively low-income people and instill savings spirit, the central government offers higher returns to post office schemes than regular banks. Post office savings is the largest savings bank in the country. The present study analyses the attitude and savings pattern towards post office savings schemes in Moodabidri talu...

Impact of Capital Structure on Financial Performance -A Study with reference to select new generation banks in India

The study examines the performance of top 40 companies based on market capitalization for the period of 5 years (2015-2019). Competitive advantage is measured using asset turnover ratio and profit margin and risk is measured using financial leverage. Book to market ratio is used as a measure of market performance of the firms. The results indicate...

Corporate Social Responsibility and Financial Performance

Hotel and restaurant industry is one of the largest providers of employment for skilled and unskilled labour. Over 96% of this employment is from unorganized sector which is riddled with low wages, poor working conditions and lack of awareness of rights. The present study gives an insight into the socio economic conditions of unorganized restaurant...

This paper examines the impact of Staff and training cost on the firm's financial performance based on the indicators of Net profit margin and Return on Equity. This study establishes human resource cost has significant effect on the financial performance of consumer durable companies listed on National Stock Exchange (NSE). Investment in human ass...

Financial Literacy

The purpose of the present study is to provide further evidence of the weak form efficiency of the Bahrain Bourse. The research methodology is based on daily closing index values of the Bahrain Bourse from 2011 to 2015 in order to test the efficiency of the stock market while runs test, Autocorrelation Function, and advance tools such as ARCH and G...

The main purpose of this research article is to provide a comparative framework on various implications of risk anomalies on Indian stock market based on an empirical study for the following sectors: Pharmaceutical, Fast-Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG) and IT. Risk anomaly is a notable anomaly because it is continual and all-inclusive. This research s...

Oil export is the major source of revenue for the countries in the Middle East. Their economies are sensitive to fluctuations in oil prices. The present study examines the impact of oil crisis on the performance of selected banks of Kingdom of Bahrain using profitability, efficiency, capital adequacy and liquidity ratios in the pre-crisis and crisi...

Oil export is the major source of revenue for the countries in the Middle East. Their economies are sensitive to fluctuations in oil prices. The present study examines the impact of oil crisis on the performance of selected banks of Kingdom of Bahrain using profitability, efficiency, capital adequacy and liquidity ratios in the pre-crisis and crisi...

Efficient market hypothesis (EMH) states that financial markets are “informationally efficient”, implying that current prices fully reflect all available information. The present study aims at testing the weak form of market efficiency of the individual stocks listed on the Bahrain Bourse for the period 2011 to 2015. Weak form of EMH is tested usin...

Efficient market hypothesis (EMH) states that financial markets are " information-ally efficient " , implying that current prices fully reflect all available information. The present study aims at testing the weak form of market efficiency of the individual stocks listed on the Bahrain Bourse for the period 2011 to 2015. Weak form of EMH is tested...

Oil export is the major source of revenue for the countries in the Middle East. Their economies are sensitive to fluctuations in oil prices. The present study examines the impact of oil crisis on the performance of selected banks of Kingdom of Bahrain using profitability, efficiency, capital adequacy and liquidity ratios in the pre-crisis and crisi...

The current paper studies the impact of two events i.e stock splits and rights issue announcement on the stock returns of companies listed on the Bombay Stock Exchange. The study consists of a sample of 90 announcements for stock splits and 29 announcements for rights issue during the period 2011-2014. Market model is used to calculate the abnormal...

Efficient Market Theory (EMT) states that, the prices in the stock market depict all relevant information, therefore it is impossible to beat the market as an investor is fully informed. Till the late seventies this view was supported by many empirical studies and many market models related to security valuation have been based on the concept of in...

Efficient Market Theory (EMT) states that, the prices in the stock market depict all relevant information, therefore it is impossible to beat the market as an investor is fully informed. Till the late seventies this view was supported by many empirical studies and many market models related to security valuation have been based on the concept of in...

A capital market in which stock prices fully reflect all available information can be termed as informationally efficient market. A number of studies have empirically tested the response of security prices to the release of different information. The objective of this study is to find evidence of semi-strong form of efficiency in the Indian stock m...

The present study tests the semi strong form of efficiency of the Indian capital market with regard to bonus share announcements using event study methodology. The main concern of the semi strong tests is whether prices adjust efficiently to other information that is obviously publicly available (e.g., announcements of annual earnings, stock splits...