Financial Markets<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trading, Pricing, Volatility and Efficiency<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

• Alternative investment funds<\/li>
• Behavioral finance<\/li>
• Corporate bond market pricing, trading and efficiency<\/li>
• Financial market efficiency, asset pricing and volatility<\/li>
• Foreign exchange market: trading, parity and efficiency<\/li>
• Government debt market delivery, efficiency and trading<\/li>
• Insurance and reinsurance-pricing, default and solvency<\/li>
• Money market efficiency, delivery and volatility<\/li>
• Mutual funds, portfolio and fund management<\/li>
• Non deliverable forwards market<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n

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   Banking and Risk Management<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

  • Basel and bank management<\/li>
  • Liquidity and asset-liability management<\/li>
  • MCLR, BPLR, base rate and pricing of loans<\/li>
  • Modeling credit risk, market risk and operational risk<\/li>
  • Quantification, pricing and management of risk<\/li>
  • Risk-based pricing<\/li>
  • Techniques and principles of model validation<\/li>
  • Treasury management<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n

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     Financial Inclusion and Payment System<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    • Digital Finance<\/li>
    • Financial inclusion measurement framework<\/li>
    • Financing for micro-enterprises<\/li>
    • Fraud regulation in payment system<\/li>
    • Integrated payment system architecture<\/li>
    • Payment banks-strategy for business expansion<\/li>
    • Retail payment system<\/li>
    • Risk management in payment system<\/li>
    • Sustainability of SHGs<\/li>
    • Unstructured and structured payment system<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n

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      Derivatives: Trading, Pricing and Risk Management<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

      • Commodity derivatives trading, volatility and pricing<\/li>
      • Credit derivatives and credit default swaps<\/li>
      • Currency futures<\/li>
      • Delivery and settlement system<\/li>
      • Equity options valuation and pricing<\/li>
      • Exchange traded funds<\/li>
      • Implied volatility and volatility trading<\/li>
      • Interest rate futures<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n

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        High Frequency Finance<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

        • Assessment of trading execution cost<\/li>
        • Bid-ask spreads and cost segregation<\/li>
        • Big data framework for asset pricing<\/li>
        • Big data modeling<\/li>
        • Information asymmetry and adverse selection models<\/li>
        • Limit order book dynamics<\/li>
        • Market microstructure and stock exchange governance<\/li>
        • Portfolio analytics<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n

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          Corporate Finance<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

          Corporate Funding and Capital Structure<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

          • Angel investments<\/li>
          • Capital structure and liquidity<\/li>
          • Crowd funding<\/li>
          • Entrepreneurial finance<\/li>
          • Investment uncertainty, market timing and capital<\/li>
          • structure<\/li>
          • Managerial behavior, agency costs and capital structure<\/li>
          • Private financing<\/li>
          • Profit planning and capital structure<\/li>
          • Start-Up funding and valuation<\/li>
          • Venture funding<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n

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            Corporate Governance, Mergers and Acquisitions<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

            • Audit practices in corporate governance<\/li>
            • Business ethics in corporate governance<\/li>
            • Corporate governance and CSR<\/li>
            • Corporate governance and ownership<\/li>
            • Corporate profitability and governance<\/li>
            • Cross border mergers and acquisitions<\/li>
            • Gender diversity and governance<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n

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              Corporate Dividends<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

              • Determinants of corporate dividend policy<\/li>
              • Industry classification and dividend policy<\/li>
              • Information content of dividend changes<\/li>
              • Liquidity, profitability and leverage reaction to dividend change<\/li>
              • Market reaction to substantial shifts in dividend policy<\/li>
              • Ownership structure and dividend payouts<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n

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                Working Capital Management<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

                • Adverse selection effects of corporate cash holdings<\/li>
                • Operating Cycle and Cash Conversion Cycle<\/li>
                • Corporate governance and cash holdings<\/li>
                • Determinants of corporate cash holding<\/li>
                • Family control and cash holdings<\/li>
                • Optimum cash holding and inventory efficiency<\/li>
                • Working capital efficiency and cash holdings<\/li><\/ul>\n\r\n