Educational Qualification

• Ph.D. in Finance (IFHE University)
• M.Phil. (ICFAI University, Tripura)
• NET (UGC)
• MBA (ICFAI University, Dehradun)

Work Experience (Research /Teaching)

• Assistant Professor, RBS (May 2020 to present)
• Associate Professor, IBS Hyderabad (October 2017 to March 2020)
• Assistant Professor, IBS Hyderabad (July 2015 to September 2017)
• Teaching Associate, IBS Hyderabad (June 2010 to June 2015)

Area of Interest (Research /Teaching)

Teaching Interests

• Financial Management, Financial Accounting, Managerial Accounting, Cost Accounting, Security Analysis, Portfolio Management, Financial Derivatives and Strategic Financial Management.

Research Interests

• Corporate Finance, Corporate Governance, Price Discovery, Volatility Transmission, Market Microstructure and Asset Pricing

Journal Publication

JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS

• Lakshmi, VDMV & Sisodia, Garima & Joseph, Anto & Tiwari, Aviral. (2023). The conditional impact of market conditions, volatility and liquidity shocks on the arbitrage opportunities during pre‐COVID and COVID periods. International Journal of Finance & Economics. 29. 10.1002/ijfe.2818,Scopus Q2
• The Role of the Banking Sector in Economic Resurgence and Resilience: Evidence from Pacific Island Countries. Global Journal of Flexible System Management, 2024 (ABDC A)
• "The conditional impact of market conditions, volatility and liquidity shocks on the arbitrage opportunities during pre‐COVID and COVID periods. International Journal of Finance & Economics, 2023 (ABDC B)."
• Whether corporate green bonds act as armour during crises? Evidence from a natural experiment, International Journal of Managerial Finance, 2022 (ABDC A).
• Bank-appointed directors and idiosyncratic volatility: Evidence from India, International Journal of Managerial Finance, 2022 (ABDC A).
• Bankruptcy law, creditors’ rights and financing choices: Evidence from a quasi-natural experiment in India. Applied Economics, 2021 (ABDC A).
• Corporate Social Responsibility and Cash holdings in India: Evidence from a natural experiment, Finance Research Letters, 2021 (ABDC A).
• Creditors' governance, information asymmetry and debt diversification: evidence from India, International Journal of Managerial Finance, 2021 (ABDC A).
• The relationship between human capital and firm value: Evidence from Indian firms. Cogent Economics & Finance, 2021 (ABDC B).
• A frequency domain causality investigation between futures and spot prices of Indian commodity markets, Economic Modelling, 2014 (ABDC A).
• Efficiency of emerging stock markets: Evidences from “BRICS” stock indices data using nonlinear panel unit root test, Journal of Economic and Financial Modelling, 2013.
• Factors affecting commodity futures price volatility in India: An empirical examination, Interdisciplinary Journal of Management and Behavioural Sciences, 2012.
• Determinants of Returns of Cross Listed Firms: Evidence from Indian GDR. IOSR Journal of Business and Management, 2012.
• Cross-listed Securities and Law of One Price: Evidence from Indian GDR, Interdisciplinary Journal of Management and Behavioural Sciences, 2012.

CASES PUBLISHED

• Risk Analysis of Shale Gas Extraction Project, The Case Center, UK (along with its teaching note and instructor spreadsheet), 2020
• Weighted Marginal Cost of Capital for Tecnet Steel Limited, The Case Center, UK (along with its teaching note and instructor spreadsheet), 2020
• Financial Feasibility Analysis of Shale Gas Extraction, The Case Center, UK (along with its teaching note and instructor spreadsheet), 2020
• Inventory Management Dilemma at Super Cement, The Case Center, UK (along with its teaching note and instructor spreadsheet), 2019
• Management of Return on Human Capital: An Exercise, The Case Center, UK (along with its teaching note), 2017
• Smart Investors Limited, The Case Center, UK (along with its teaching note), 2011

Paper Presentation

CONFERENCE PAPER PRESENTATIONS

• "Whether corporate green bonds act as armour during crises? Evidence from a natural experiment, International Journal of Managerial Finance, 2022 (ABDC A)."
• Impact of COVID-19 on Shariah versus non-Shariah compliant stocks: A comparative study using wavelet analysis, 8th PAN IIM World Management Conference, December 2021, IIM Kozhikode.
• Comparing Energy Contagion of the Indian Industries across Global Financial Crisis and COVID 19,  Second SEBI-NISM Research Conference, February 2021, NISM-Mumbai.
• Do the determinants of the speed of adjustment differ for the Shariah complaint firms? An evidence from India, GIM Conference on Applied Economics and Finance, December, 2019, GIM Goa.
• Impact of market sentiments on the causal nexus between interlinked markets –Evidence from spot, futures and host markets of Indian cross listed firms, 55^th Annual Conference of TIES, January 2019, NISM Mumbai.
• Market segmentation induced inequalities in price discovery and information transmission mechanism: An empirical investigation of ADRs from BRIC countries, 52^nd Annual Conference of TIES, January 2016, IIM-Kozhikode.
• Price  Discovery  and  Information  Transmission  in  Non-synchronous  Markets:  An  empirical  analysis  of Selected Cross listed Stocks of Indian Origin, 3rd India Finance Conference (IFC), December, 2013, IIM-Ahmedabad.

Conferences / MDPs Organised / FDPs Organised

• Conference Convener for the 3rd Rajagiri Management Conference held on 22-23rd April 2022 on the theme "Sustainable Development Goals in the post-pandemic world"
• Organised a two-day Pre-Conference Research Workshop for the 3rd Rajagiri Management Conference on 20-21st April 2022
• Organised a Industry Panel Discussion for the 3rd Rajagiri Management Conference on 22nd April 2022
• Organised a special track for industry experts in the 3rd Rajagiri Management Conference on 23rd April 2022
• Organised a special track for research proposal in the 3rd Rajagiri Management Conference on 22nd April 2022 

Workshops / Training Attended

• Curriculum Building for Data Science and Business Analytics with application of SAS, IBS Hyderabad by SAS corporate team, February 2019.
• Commodity Derivatives and Risk Management, IIT, Kharagpur, March 2015.
• Commodity Markets and Futures Trading, Indian Institute of Plantation Management, Bangalore, January 2014.
• 2^nd Summer School on Essential Econometrics for Research in Finance, National Institute of Securities Markets, April 2011.

Workshops / Training Organised

• Delivered two sessions each on Economic Value Added and Incremental Analysis to executives of ONGC Ltd. at IBS Hyderabad on February 14 to 15^th, 2019.
• Delivered two sessions on Project Appraisal in the 8^th MDP on MSME Banking for bank managers at IBS-Hyderabad on 8 to 10^th February, 2017.
• Delivered four sessions on Financial Statement Analysis in the 7^th MDP on MSME Banking for bank managers at IBS-Hyderabad on 11to13^th January, 2016.
• Delivered three sessions on Optimal Working Capital Management at in the MDP on Supply Chain and Finance for executives of ITC Paperboards on 26th to 28th July, 2016.