Foreign Institutional Investors and Indian Stock Market

India opened its stock markets to foreign institutional investors in September 1992 and since then Indian economy has emerged as a prominent market for the global investors. The presence of FIIs in stock market has always remained a hot and debatable issue. The present book is the outcome of an empirical research conducted to study the trends, magnitude and composition of FIIs in India over the last 20 years along with their impact on stock return and volatility. This book is organized into eight chapters. These are: Introduction, Review of Literature, Research Methodology, Growth and Composition of FII inflows in India, the Impact of the foreign institutional investors on market development, market capitalization and liquidity of Indian stock market, impact of foreign institutional investment on stock market return and volatility, Determinants of FIIs inflows to India and Major findings and Conclusion. It is expected that the book will be very beneficial for the research scholars, investors, academicians and policy makers.