{"title":"Can Machine Learning Outperform the Market? Testing the Weak-form Efficiency Hypothesis of the Indian Stock Market Using Support Vector Machines","authors":"Robin Thomas","doi":"10.1177/09721509231204137","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/09721509231204137","url":null,"abstract":"This article examines the validity of the weak form of the efficient market hypothesis (EMH) in the context of the Nifty stock market index by applying a support vector machine (SVM) model. The aim is to forecast future stock prices using historical data and to evaluate the performance of the SVM model based on accuracy, precision, recall and the area under the receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve (AUC). The findings offer important implications for the efficiency of the Nifty market and its consequences for investors. The EMH posits that stock prices incorporate all available information, making it impossible to consistently beat the market using historical data. This article tests this proposition by using an SVM model to forecast future stock prices using historical data. The methodology consists of applying the SVM algorithm on historical data of the Nifty stock market index. Performance measures, such as accuracy, precision, recall and AUC, are used to assess the effectiveness of the SVM model. The results show an accuracy of 63.25% in forecasting stock prices, indicating a substantial agreement between predicted and actual labels. The precision score of the model is 97.97%, indicating a high proportion of correctly predicted positive instances. However, the recall score is relatively low at 34.36%, suggesting that some actual positive instances were overlooked. The ROC curve visually illustrates the trade-off between true positive rate and false positive rate for different classification thresholds. This article contributes to the literature on market efficiency by applying a novel SVM model to forecast future stock prices of the Nifty index and finding that the model outperforms random chance, thus challenging the weak form of the EMH.","PeriodicalId":503988,"journal":{"name":"Global Business Review","volume":"12 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139251773","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A PLS-SEM Approach to Investigate the Effect of Satisfaction on Willingness to Recommend M-wallet Services","authors":"Subhajit Bhattacharya, Sasadhar Bera","doi":"10.1177/09721509231202315","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/09721509231202315","url":null,"abstract":"Mobile wallets (m-wallets), a particular form of mobile payment system, are gaining considerable attention in different emerging markets. This study uses the stimulus-organism-response model to understand how user recommendation depends on intention to use and satisfaction in the m-wallet payment system at the post-adoption stage in emerging markets. This research also investigates the mediating role of satisfaction between intention to use and recommendation. Online convenience and snowball sampling yielded 474 valid responses. This research applied the partial least squares-structural equation modelling approach to determine the relationship among the latent variables, model parameters estimation and mediation analysis. The results show that significant stimuli, namely brand awareness, perceived quality, compatibility and functional congruity, influence the intention to use m-wallets and users’ satisfaction. The analysis explains that improving the intention to use is insufficient to control the willingness to recommend because users’ satisfaction partially mediates between intention to use and willingness to recommend. Our study contributes to m-wallet users’ propensity to refer to the emerging market’s context. This study explains how customer satisfaction affects m-wallet users’ willingness and intention to make a recommendation at the post-adoption stage.","PeriodicalId":503988,"journal":{"name":"Global Business Review","volume":"11 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139268584","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Patterns of Innovation and Firms’ Efficiency in Case of Indian Manufacturing Sector","authors":"B. N. Rath, Poulomi Bhattacharya","doi":"10.1177/09721509231195411","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/09721509231195411","url":null,"abstract":"This study examines the linkage between patterns of innovation and firms’ efficiency of Indian manufacturing sector. The results based on primary survey show that firms which have either introduced new products or improved their products through process innovation are relatively efficient. Further, by employing a stochastic production frontier analysis, the study finds that firms those are engaged in various patterns of innovation are more technically efficient. We also find that firms’ age, capital intensity, skilled workforce and capital-output ratio are key factors that affect the technical efficiency of these innovative firms.","PeriodicalId":503988,"journal":{"name":"Global Business Review","volume":"60 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139267248","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
P. Vishwakarma, S. Mukherjee, Biplab Datta, Charu Sijoria
{"title":"Understanding the Adoption of Traditional (2D) and Virtual Reality (3D) Online Grocery Store in India:An Exploratory Study","authors":"P. Vishwakarma, S. Mukherjee, Biplab Datta, Charu Sijoria","doi":"10.1177/09721509231202002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/09721509231202002","url":null,"abstract":"This study is a pioneering effort to study the comparative adoption of traditional two-dimensional (2D) and virtual reality (3D) online grocery stores among Indian customers who are yet to experience online grocery shopping. This study has adopted an exploratory qualitative research method to explore the determinants of the adoption of both 2D and 3D online grocery stores in comparison to each other. Twenty-six interviews from Indian non-users of online grocery have been analysed. With the help of the thematic analysis, the article uncovers the factors affecting the use of traditional and virtual reality online grocery stores. This study is the first attempt to compare 2D and 3D online grocery stores and, thereby adds to the literature on online grocery shopping in the Indian context. It also provides a sense of the critical factors they need to take care of while trying to implement virtual reality online grocery stores.","PeriodicalId":503988,"journal":{"name":"Global Business Review","volume":"28 10","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139267273","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}