Indian Journal of Finance (IJF) is a double-blind, peer-reviewed, refereed monthly journal that was started in 2007 and is a source of sophisticated analysis of developments in the rapidly expanding world of finance. The journal, with its mission to promote thinking of various facets of finance, is targeted at academicians, scholars, and professionals associated with the field of finance to promote pragmatic research by disseminating the results of research in finance — corporate to personal finance, insurance to financial economics and derivatives, accounting education, accounting information systems, accounting theory & practice, auditing, behavioral accounting, behavioral economics, corporate finance, cost accounting, econometrics, economic development, economic history, financial institutions & markets, financial services, fiscal policy, government & non-profit accounting, industrial organization, insurance, international economics & trade, international finance, macro economics, micro economics, monetary policy, portfolio & security analysis, public policy economics, real estate, regional economics, tax accounting, financial management, financial economics and sub – areas such as, statistical and empirical financial studies based on advanced stochastic methods, financial instruments for risk management, and uncertainty and information in relation to finance. The Indian Journal of Finance promotes applied research in the field of finance by giving scholars and practitioners a place to share ideas and methods. Among other databases, the Indian Journal of Finance is indexed in Scopus (Q3, Scopus CiteScore = 1.5, Scopus Journal CiteScore Rank (Economics, Econometrics and Finance (miscellaneous)): 127/242; Finance 202/317)), UGC – CARE List (Group II), ABDC Journal List (Rating: C), and Google Scholar. The Indian Journal of Finance is widely distributed throughout India, especially in the country’s rural areas. The journal’s readership stretches from the Northeast to remote regions of Gujarat and from Kashmir to Kanyakumari.