Guidelines for Abstract

The abstract should not exceed 300 words and should include:

• Title
• Background
• Objectives
• Methodology
• Findings/Results

Please give name, affiliation, mailing address, e-mail, and phone and fax number of the contributor(s) with the abstract.

Contributors should note following:

1. All the submissions must be made in pdf format.

2. The cover page should bear only the title of the page, names, official addresses, email IDs, phone/fax numbers of the authors, a brief biographical note of the authors and acknowledgements (if any).

3. The first page of the manuscript (after the cover page) should also contain the title, the abstract, the classification code as used by the Journal of Economic Literature (JEL) and four or five keywords.

4. Tables and Figures should be given on the separate page at the end of the paper. Tables and figures separately should be numbered consecutively in Arabic numerals (e.g. Table 1, Table 2, for Tables and Figure 1, Figure 2 for Figures. The location of the tables and figures in the text should be indicated as follows:

5. Tables and figures must be self-contained, in the sense that the reader must be able to understand them without going back to the text of the paper.

6. Footnotes should be kept to a minimum and numbered consecutively throughout the text with superscript Arabic numerals.

7. Displayed formulae should be numbered consecutively throughout the manuscript as (1), (2), etc. against the right-hand margin of the page.

8. References to publications should be as follows: "Fama (1992) reports that . . ." or "This problem has been studied previously (e.g., Smith et al., 1969; Jones, 1970)". The author should make sure that there is a strict one-to-one correspondence between the names and years in the text and those on the list. The list of references should appear at the end of the main text (after any appendices, but before tables and legends for figures). It should be double-spaced and listed in alphabetical order by author's name. References should appear as follows:

For books/ monographs

Engle, R. (2009), "Anticipating Correlations: A New Paradigm for Risk Management", Princeton University Press, Princeton.

For contributions to collective works

De Bondt W.F.M. and Thaler, R. H.,(1993), " Does the Stock Market Overreact", in Advances in Behavioral Finance, Thaler R. (ed), Russell Sage Foundation, New York, pp. 249-264.

For Journals:

Fama, E. (1991), "Efficient Capital Markets II", Journal of Finance, Vol. 46(5), pp. 1575-1617

For unpublished material:

Jermann, U. and Quadrini, V. (2006), "Financial Innovation and Macroeconomic Volatility", NBER Working Paper No. 12308,http://www.nber.org/papers/w12308.pdf .

Note that journal titles should not be abbreviated.