According to some recently published State of Democracy report, India has reported significant decline in its democratic indicators. In Freedom House 2021 report, India has been shown as ‘partly free’ and not ‘free’. Variety of Democracies (2021) listed India in the category of ‘electoral autocracy’ in the same category of Continue Reading
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Understanding Emotions and Managing Them for Your Health
Introduction We all know life is too short to stress ourselves over anything but still, we often experience stress. Why? Maybe because of our evolved emotional brains. Or maybe because of our personality. Or maybe due to some external unavoidable factors. Or we do not know how to handle our Continue Reading
Watch the latest episode of Indian Diplomacy on Japan-India Special Strategic & Global Partnership
“How has Japan become central to India’s economic rise? What are Japan and India doing together to stabilize the Indo-Pacific? How is Japan’s shift to an assertive foreign and defence policy beneficial to India?” discusses Prof. (Dr.) Sreeram Chaulia, Dean and Professor, Jindal School of International Affairs (JSIA) in the latest episode of Continue Reading
Stress and Anxiety in the Post-Pandemic World
The debilitating effects of the Covid-19 pandemic—economic, governmental, and personal—are finally beginning to wane in India and around the world. The virus still poses serious threats to public health, however, and interventions to disrupt its spread, such as quarantine and social distancing, will be required to keep the virus in Continue Reading
Prof. (Dr.) Sanjeev P. Sahni, Principal Director, Jindal Institute of Behavioural Sciences (JIBS) elected as the Vice President of the World Society of Victimology
We at O.P. Jindal Global University (JGU) are delighted to announce that Prof. (Dr.) Sanjeev P. Sahni, Principal Director, Jindal Institute of Behavioural Sciences (JIBS) has been elected to the position of Vice President of the World Society of Victimology (WSV) at the 17th International Symposium on Victimology in San Continue Reading
Better Late than Never
The mercury was rising across India and so was the inflation rate in past two months. The whopping 14% plus increase in WPI already hit the headlines. Common man was feeling the heat of rising prices while purchasing their daily needs. It did not take much economics to realise that Continue Reading
WHAT IS FINANCE? AND WHY SHOULD WE STUDY IT?
The 2017 Nobel Prize in Economics was given to Richard Thaler because his “contributions have built a bridge between the economic and psychological analyses of individual decision-making. His empirical findings and theoretical insights have been instrumental in creating the new and rapidly expanding field of behavioral economics.” Evolution of Behavioural Finance Following Continue Reading
LIC IPO: What does the launch of India’s biggest public offering hold for the economy?
The Central Government is planning to launch the Initial Public Offering (IPO) of Life Insurance Corporation of India (LIC) early in May this year. According to the draft red herring prospectus, the central government is planning to sell 31 crore equity shares in the LIC IPO i.e., roughly 5% of Continue Reading
UPI – The Way Forward
The volume of transactions completed using the UPI (Unified Payments Interface) System crossed a significant milestone in March 2022 and was close to crossing another milestone. The volume of transactions on UPI in the financial year 2021-22 crossed the $1-trillion mark, with transactions worth INR 84,17,572.48 crores being processed on Continue Reading
Human sentiment in markets: The missing link in understanding finance
Our understanding of economics and finance, specifically in an academic context, is based on models and theories available in the said disciplines. These archetype postulations make up most of the ‘copybook’ information in understanding these subjects. They provide the foundation for various complicated and straightforward concepts in the field. They Continue Reading