“…Scholars have investigated numerous concepts such as mergers and acquisitions, stock markets, insurance, banking, SME finance and managerial decision-making. More specifically, these include the behavior of volatility of the Indian stock market and the impact of the global financial crisis of 2008 (Viswanathan and Maheswaran, 2019), the performance of actively managed equity mutual funds (Deb, 2019), food inflation (Bhattacharya et al , 2019), the role of the sentiment-based factor in asset pricing to explain prominent equity market anomalies such as size, value and price momentum for India (Pandey and Sehgal, 2019), volatility patterns in stock returns for India (Batra and Verma, 2017), stock price reaction to the announcements of cross-border acquisitions (Rani et al , 2015), Indian fund managers stock-selection skills (Zabiulla, 2014). Other topics of interest include factors affecting the capital structure decisions of SMEs (Rao et al , 2019), sovereign rating models of Moody’s, Standard and Poor’s and Fitch to identify important determinants of sovereign ratings (Sehgal et al , 2018).…”