Impact of FII Flows on Indian Capital Market

Download or read book Impact of FII Flows on Indian Capital Market written by Vaishali Jain and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 11 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The progress and prosperity of a nation is reflected by the pace of its sustained economic growth and development which is provided by investment. Not only foreign exchange domestic savings but the magnitude and quality of foreign investment is also necessary for the well being of a country. The Foreign Institutional Investors (FIIs) have emerged as important players in the Indian equity market in the recent past and are gradually becoming one of the major factors that contribute towards the growth of the financial markets, more so in developing economies like India. The main objective was to study the effect of FII flow on capital markets, extent of Granger Causality between FII flows and capital market growth and lead-lag relationship between FII flows and NSE Nifty. The database used for the study is composed of the monthly data of FII flow and NSE Nifty. While selecting the sample certain criteria were followed. While collecting data for FII flows, data pertaining to the equity investment only was used. The data used was collected integration have been computed with the help of Gretl and other relevant software available for statistical analysis. The results of the study did imply that FII investment and NIFITY were influenced by various other macroeconomic fundamentals on the basis of which growth were studied and in any way did not have any causal relationship with each other.