Teaching

Areas of Interest

Specialisation: Corporate Finance and Strategy, Financial Markets and Institutions, Market Microstructure, Computational Finance, Forecasting and Time Series Modeling, Stock and Commodity Derivatives.

Courses Offered :

Core Courses: Financial Accounting, Financial Analysis and Applications, Finance and Accounting for Engineers, Cost Accounting, Financial Management, Working Capital Management, Strategic Management.

Elective Courses: Financial Institutions and Markets, Treasury Management, Computational Finance, Fixed Income Securities: Trading and Strategy, Derivatives and Risk management, Investment Management, Financial Services, International Finance.

Research Level Courses: Empirical Research in Finance-I & II, Financial Modeling and Analysis, Corporate Governance, Internal control and Risk management, Dynamics of Family Businesses, Financial Institutions and Management, IT Strategy in Financial Institutions.

Current Research Areas

• Impact of Promoter blockholdings in R&D

• SEBI regulations on Governance and Practice - case study

• CSR, Ownership and Firm value

• Digitilsation, Innovation and FDI – developed and developing economies

• Liquidity in commodity markets

• Arbitrage, Hedging and Speculation in Crude oil futures market

• RPT, Women Director and Audit committee -Impact on Firm value

• Ownership Pattern and Board Characteristics Impact on CSR Spending: Emerging Economies

• Gender Diversity Impact on Corporate Social Responsibility: Emerging Economies

• Family Firms and CSR spending on Community, Environmental and Education activities: Emerging Economies

Research Guidance

Completed: Ph.D. (22) | M.S. (9) | Post Doc (3)

Current Scholars (Ph.D):

• Lalitha Sitaraman - Credit Risk Management in Banks (2023)

• Revathi T - Climate Finance (2023)

• Priya - Fintech (2022)

• Harshita Mongia - Corporate Strategy (2021)

• Anushree Mishra - Sustainability and governance (2020)

• Alphin T Kallany - Corporate governance (2021)

Post Doc - Completed:

• Haritha P Haridas (2024) - Spillover between Crypto currency and Global Financial Assets

• Abhijeet Chandra (2012-14) - Investor sentiment and asset pricing

• Lakshmi, P. (2015-17) - Determinants of Aggregate Fund flows of US Private and Non-finance firms

Ph.D. Completed (Selected):

• Vijaya C (2024) - Smart Beta Investing

• Shruti R (2024) - Role of Promoters and Institutional investors on IFRS Impact

• V. Vijayagopal (2024) - Family firms, Risk Propensity

• Sharon Christina Tensingh (2023) - Liquidity and Market efficiency in Commodity Market

• Kameswari Vissa (2022) - Impact of Home Country Macro Determinants on M&A

• Anuja Sethiya (2020) - Impact of Blockholder Promoters

• Aghila Sasidharan (2020) - Board Composition and Audit Committee

• Shyaam Prasadh R. (2020) - Cross- Border Acquisition

• Shashank Bansal (2019) - Ownership Structure and Related Party Transactions

• Narend, S. (2017) - Exchange Traded funds

• Shipra Maurya (2017) - Cross-Commodity Price Transmission

• Lalita Anand (2015) - Cash Holdings

• Narayanan, P.C. (2013) - Cross-border Acquisitions (Emerald/EFMD Award Winner)

• Manish Kumar (2011) - Forecasting and Modeling Financial Time Series