Sayantan Bandhu Majumder
@sxuk.edu.in
Assistant Professor in Economics
St. Xavier's University, Kolkata
EDUCATION
Ph.D. in Economics from University of Calcutta, 2014-2020
M.Phil. in Economics from University of Calcutta, 2011-2013
M.Sc. in Economics with 1st class from University of Calcutta, 2009-2011
B.Sc. in Economics (Honours) with 1st class University of Calcutta, 2006-2009
RESEARCH, TEACHING, or OTHER INTERESTS
Economics, Econometrics and Finance
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Sayantan Bandhu Majumder
SAGE Publications
The article attempts to explore the interlinkages among the Nifty thematic indices and their portfolio implications. First, we examine the return and volatility spillovers among eight Nifty thematic indices, namely Energy, Infrastructure, MNC, PSE, Services Sector, Aditya Birla Group, Mahindra Group and Tata group using the vector autoregressive (VAR (1)) asymmetric BEKK–GARCH model for the period 4 January 2010–28 March 2020. Second, the estimation results are used to calculate and analyse the optimal portfolio weights, hedge ratios and hedging effectiveness. We find significant evidence of return and volatility spillover. Moreover, the spillovers are found to be asymmetric in few cases. The optimal portfolio weight favours the MNC and Services sectors.
Sayantan Bandhu Majumder and Ranjanendra Narayan Nag
Informa UK Limited
ABSTRACT Understanding the modern manifestation of policy trilemma in the backdrop of the evolving global financial architecture is critical for an emerging economy like India which has embarked on the path of financial integration with the rest of the world over the last few decades. The paper seeks to understand whether Indian economy is facing the macroeconomic policy trade-off as proposed by the impossible trinity or the trade-off has morphed into the policy dilemma or quadrilemma? We find that trilemma constraint is binding and Indian economy is actually facing the quadrilemma rather than the policy dilemma.
Sayantan Bandhu Majumder and Ranjanendra Narayan Nag
SAGE Publications
The basic thrust of this article is to examine how shocks and volatility are transmitted across sector indices. This article employs the autoregressive asymmetric BEKK-GARCH model. The study is based on daily data from the National Stock Exchange (NSE) of India from January 2004 to January 2014. Volatility spillover was found to be bidirectional among the two pro-cyclical sectors: Finance and IT. But, there was a unidirectional shock and volatility spillover from the non-cyclical FMCG sector to both the pro-cyclical sectors. The FMCG sector has remained almost unaffected by the spillover from the other sectors. Moreover, the evidence of asymmetric spillover has been found to be present in most of the case. Second, correlations between the sectors were found to be higher during the period of global financial crisis. But no such evidence was found in the context of the Euro zone debt crisis. Understanding the dynamics of shocks and volatility transmission is necessary for risk management in general and for optimal portfolio allocation and hedging strategy in particular. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first study on Indian stock market which has analysed the dynamics of shock and volatility transmission across sector indices.
Sayantan Bandhu Majumder and Ranjanendra Narayan Nag
World Scientific Pub Co Pte Lt
This paper aims to investigate the situation of policy trilemma in India. Analysing the quarterly data from 1991 to 2015, we find that though the trilemma constraint is binding in the long run, there is ample evidence of short-run deviations from the constraint. Intervention in the foreign exchange market by the Reserve bank of India has successfully helped to relax this constraint. The policy mix has changed over this period – the degree of capital account openness has gradually increased, mainly at the cost of exchange rate stability. We further examine the determinants and the macroeconomic effects of the trilemma policy configuration. We find that the trilemma efficiency depends on the financial stress, financial development, intervention by the Central bank and the liquidity in the economy. Higher monetary policy independence helps to reduce the inflation rate while exchange rate stability and capital account openness are associated with the higher growth rate and the larger output gap.
Sayantan Bandhu Majumder and Ranjanendra Narayan Nag
SAGE Publications
The article analyses the behaviour of net total capital inflow and its components since the introduction of liberalisation in India in 1991. An introspective analysis of capital flow reveals that capital inflow in India is volatile in nature and it is volatile in exactly the wrong direction, in a sense that it is pro-cyclical rather than countercyclical. However, all types of flows should not be treated equally. Being the most volatile and least persistent components, FPI and commercial bank inflow should be monitored very cautiously. The volatility of foreign direct investment (FDI) and commercial borrowing has gradually increased, although it has declined recently. External assistance has declined steadily and lost its dominance relative to the other counterparts. There is ample evidence of complementarity among the components of capital flows though we get a glimpse of substitutability between FDI and FPI—the two most voluminous components of capital flows. Contrary to a-cyclical, non-debt creating flows, commercial borrowings and commercial bank flows are found to be pro-cyclical in nature. The net total capital inflow series contain three structural breakpoints, at 1995Q4, 2002Q4 and 2006Q2. Domestic growth performance, policy changes and external shocks are the key factors behind these obtained structural breaks. There was a noticeable change in the behaviour of total capital flow and its components over the four phases identified in the article. JEL Classification: F21, F32, F41
Ranjanendra Narayan Nag, Sayan Baksi, and Sayantan Bandhu Majumder
SAGE Publications
In this article we construct a simple open-economy macro model to examine how capital flows, monetary policy and dividend policies of firms influence asset prices, economic activity and inflation. In this model, we consider a three-asset framework based on domestic money, domestic equity and foreign bonds under flexible exchange rate. The model is based on the assumptions of imperfect asset substitutability and absence of sterilization. The model also incorporates an aggregate supply function in the presence of wage indexation. The model can apply to a large class of emerging market economies which have embarked on a programme of liberalization of the financial sector in general and stock market in particular.
Sayantan Bandhu Majumder and Ranjanendra Narayan Nag
Inderscience Publishers
Return and volatility spillover between the stock market and the foreign exchange market have been studied for the Indian economy, over the period of April 2003 to September 2013. Bivariate EGARCH model has been used for this purpose, which can aptly capture the asymmetric responses to the shocks. Return and volatility spillover from the stock market to foreign exchange market has been found to be statistically significant. The paper further dissect the sample period between pre-crisis (2003-2007) and post-crisis (2008-2013) period and the analysis reveals that the strength of volatility spillover has become stronger in the post-crisis period. Policies pertaining to stock market stabilisation can reduce the exchange rate volatility as well. However, managing exchange rate fluctuation is found to be an effective way of dampening stock market volatility at the time of stress only.