Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics

(Deemed to be University u/s 3 of the UGC Act, 1956)

Pune 411 004
M.Sc.(Economics / Financial Economics) 2021-2023
Semester:- September 2021 – February 2022
Online Semester End Examination: February 2022
B-06 /FE-A-105: Financial Institutions Markets and Regulation

Monday Time: 10.00 a.m. to 01.00 p.m.

February 07, 2022 Max. Marks: 60

Instructions:
1. It is an open book examination.
2. Write your answer in your own words and precisely to the contents.
3. Using the cut and paste method to write the answer using internet, other
sources may lead deduction of marks.

Answer any six from the following questions

Q. 1 Critically examine and comment on the vision and role of NABARD as under: (10)
“Promote sustainable and equitable agriculture and rural development through
participative financial and non-financial interventions, innovations, technology
and institutional development for securing prosperity”.

Q. 2 Critically comment on the EXIM Bank's role as under, "… for providing (10)
financial assistance to exporters and importers, and for functioning as the
principal financial institution for coordinating the working of institutions
engaged in financing export and import of goods and services to promote the
country's international trade…"

Q. 3 Examine and comment on the role of the mutual fund in the growth of Indian (10)
stock market investment.

Q. 4 What is “Chit Fund”? Critically examine the role of Chit fund processes in (10)
mobilising the small saving in productive purposes with the traditional way of
techniques of persuasion. Comment on the fraud that happened in the name of
investment in this segment.

Q. 5 What is Venture Capital? How does ‘qualified foreign investment’ in venture (10)
capital play a role in building new startup companies under the small and
medium categories? Discuss with examples.

Q. 6 Examine India's Foreign Portfolio Investment (FPIs) trend in post-SEBI (10)

(Foreign Portfolio Investors), Regulations, 2014 and registered with SEBI.
Give your comments.

Q. 7 Elaborate and critically discuss about the unauthorised allocation of shares in (10)
a case relating to Standard Charter Bank and TMBL under provisions of the
Foreign Exchange Management Act, 1999 (FEMA).

Q. 8 What is 'corporate debt'? Critically comment on rising corporate debt in recent (10)
years and explain how the government regulates corporate insolvency cases
under the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code 2016?

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