Acknowledgments

We express our sincere thanks to our teachers, departmental colleagues, many of our friends, students, and research scholars for their intellectual support and continuous encouragement in this endeavor. We also express our indebtedness to the numerous researchers in the field of capital market across different countries for their rich contributions which have helped us shaping our understanding in the subject.

We would like to express our gratitude especially to Prof. Debabrata Datta, IMT Ghaziabad, India, who helped with many ideas and overall academic supervision. Their constant support helped us to accomplish this academic challenge. We are also grateful to Prof. Manas Ranjan Gupta, Head of the Economics Research Unit, Indian Statistical Institute Kolkata, India, for his expert comments in constructing the theoretical model.

We are grateful to the Publishers, Emerald Group Publishing Inc., for giving us an opportunity to publish the book. We would be failing in our duties if we do not mention the name of Charlotte C. Maiorana, Editor, Emerald Group Publishing Inc., Fiona Mattison and Brent Persun, Editorial Assistants who have been continuously monitoring and supporting us at every step of the publication. We also thank Ms Jaya Chowdhury (Project Manager, MPS Limited, Chennai, India).

Last but not the least, we are thankful to our family members for their constant support and encouragement.