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Herding by Indian Equity Mutual Fund Managers : Forced or Chosen?
Satyakam Dev, Suman Chakraborty, Poornima Panduranga Kundapur, Sandeep S. Shenoy
· pp. 8–25
DOI: 10.17010/ijf/2026/v20i8/176085
Purpose: In India, a small group of equity fund managers managed a large, fast-growing corpus of household savings. When these managers herded, prices drifted from value, and the market turned fragile. The Indian regulator has periodically reset fund rules, which …
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institutional herding, equity mutual funds, flow-induced trading, scheme recategorization, emerging markets
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Prioritizing Green Finance for Emission Reduction in Indian MSME Subsectors : An Exploration
Anuj Kumar, Syriac Nellikunnel Devasia
· pp. 26–40
DOI: 10.17010/ijf/2026/v20i8/176086
Purpose: The current research aimed to investigate the relationship between estimated green-investment requirements and projected carbon-emission reductions across five micro, small, and medium enterprise subsectors in India. Design/Methodology/Approach : This research employed secondary data analysis to investigate estimated green-investment requirements …
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green finance, estimated green-investment requirements, projected carbon-emission reductions, energy efficiency potential, micro, small, and medium enterprises, sectoral analysis, India
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Inflation, Output Gap, and the Episodic Phillips Curve in India
Arjun Mittal, Sonal Thukral, Anand Mittal, Devesh Pasari
· pp. 41–59
DOI: 10.17010/ijf/2026/v20i8/176087
Purpose: This study examined whether India’s short-run Phillips Curve was a stable, structural relationship or an episodic one over 2010–2025, extending prior Indian evidence by 14 years through the flexible inflation targeting era across four inflation channels. Design/Methodology/Approach : Using …
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Phillips curve, inflation inertia, output gap, monetary policy transmission, flexible inflation targeting, rolling-window regression
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Behavioral Biases, Risk Perceptions, and Investment Framing in Blockchain Asset Exposure
Piyusa Das
· pp. 60–79
DOI: 10.17010/ijf/2026/v20i8/175250
Purpose: The study examined whether behavioral biases, risk perceptions, and investment framing differentiated Indian investors across levels of portfolio exposure to blockchain-based digital assets. Design/Methodology/Approach : Data were collected from 1,139 Indian investors through an online survey. A partial least …
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blockchain investment, behavioral finance, risk perception, investment framing, Indian investors