Exploring What Drives Indian Stock Market During Covid-19

Indrani Chakraborty is Professor of Economics at the Institute of Development Studies Kolkata. She was formerly at the Centre for Development Studies, Trivandrum and University of North-Bengal,West Bengal. She did her Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Calcutta in 1993. She has published a large number of articles in reputed journals and contributed to many book volumes on the impact of capital inflows, the role of financial development on economic growth, capital structure of corporate firms, impact of reforms on firms’ performance, impact of mergers and acquisitions on firm performance and many other issues relating to corporate finance, international finance and development economics. She published an edited volume titled “Market, Regulations and Finance: Global Meltdown and the Indian Economy” by Springer in 2014 jointly with R. Khasnabis.

• Preface.- Foreword.- Introduction.- Impact of Covid-19 on the Stock Market and Corporate Firms in India.- Covid-19 and Short-Term Herding in the Indian Stock Market: An Exploratory Analysis.- Stock Markets, Investment and the Real Economy: An Analysis of Firm-Level Data in India.- Stock Markets, Investment and the Real Economy: An Analysis of Firm-Level Data in India.- Conclusion.