Finance and Accounting
Primary Area : Finance and Accounting
FPM, Indian Institute of Management, Lucknow
Ph.D:
MBA / PGP-X
ePGD in Advanced Business Analytics
e-Mode Post Graduate Programme
Pricing of financial assets
Influence of behavioral issues in asset returns and corporate finance
Corporate finance issues in emerging markets
Volatility and market microstructure (with Vipul)
Behaviour and Pricing Idiosyncratic Volatility
Systematic Risk Factors in the Indian Financial Markets (with Sobhesh K. Aggarwalla & Jayanth R. Varma)
IPO Underpricing in India (Sobhesh K. Aggarwala)
Ad-hoc referee for several finance and accounting journals.
Core Committee Member, JAAF India Symposium, June 2021 - Present
Editorial Board, Indian Journal of Accounting Research, January 2022 - Present
Member, Financial Management Association
Chairperson, Evaluation Committee (EC), IFSCA FinTech Incentive Scheme, International Financial Services Centres Authority, 2022
Member, Expert Committee on Financial Schemes for MSMEs, Commissioner of Industries and Commerce, Tamil Nadu Government, 2022
Independent Member on the Board of Directors, Paschim Gujarat Vij Company Limited, 2018
Member, Seed Investment Committee, CIIE.CO, 2018
Member, Working Group for setting up the International Bullion Exchange, under the aegis of International Financial Services Centres Authority, 2020-2021
Member, Expert Sub-Committee on Investments, Employee Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO), Ministry of Labour, Government of India. The Sub-Committee drafted the investment policies and asset allocation framework for the fund.
Member, FICCI Committee on Commodity Markets FY 2018-19: The Committee interfaces with the Central Government on key policy matters which affect the commodities markets in India., 2018-2019
Sub-Committee Member, Committee to transform India's Gold market, The Committee has been constituted by the NITI Aayog, India's apex central planning institution., 2017
Developing a framework to assess investment potential in private and public markets, Fidelity Business Services India Pvt. Ltd., Bangalore, 2020-2021
Asset allocation and behavioural finance, Fidelity Business Services India Pvt. Ltd., Bangalore, 2019-2020
Evolving a Quantitative Asset Allocation Framework, NJ Asset Management, Mumbai,, 2021-2022
Developing a framework for capital adequacy requirements of market intermediaries, National Stock Exchange (NSE) , 2020-2021
Study on developing domestic price benchmarks for base metals, Lessons from Global Markets, Multi Commodity Exchange of India Ltd, 2020-2021
Research on comparative assessment of the commodity markets of China and India, MultiCommodity Exchange of India Ltd., 2019-2020
Estimation of cost of capital, Mumbai International Airport Ltd, 2019-2020
Research on the Impact of Base Metals Futures on User Industries, Multi Commodity Exchange of India Ltd, 2017-2018
2021 - Second Best Paper Award, Annual Capital Markets Conference 2021, NISM, (with Pranjal Srivastava and Ajay Pandey for paper titled “A Minimum Buyback Requirement in Open Market Repurchases: Impact on the Signalling Role”)
2018 - CFA Best Paper Award, India Finance Association Conference, December, 2018 (jointly with Balagopal Gopalakrishnanan and Ajay Pandey for paper titled “Lender moral hazard in state-owned banks: Evidence from an emerging economy”)
2018 - Best paper award at the Asia-pacific Applied Economics Association Doctoral Conference in Changsha, China, January 2018, (jointly with Balagopal Gopalakrishnanan and Ajay Pandey for paper titled “Lender moral hazard in state-owned banks
2017 - `Philip Thomas Memorial Case Award for the year 2017' (jointly with Jayanth R.Varma), for the best case at Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad (for case titled Angels and Crowds)
`IIML-Bharti Foundation Fellowship' awarded to the outstanding Ph.D student at Indian Institute of Management, Lucknow
The Banker, March 2021
Money Control, November, 2021
The Economic Times, September 2021
The Wire, October 2021
BusinessLine, March 2021
BusinessLine, March 26, 2020
The Hindu, July 16, 2020
Financial Express, December 31, 2019
Live Mint, December 27, 2016
Live Mint, October, 12, 2015
Live Mint, February 22, 2016
Indian Express, June 4, 2013
