Our Faculty

Anand

Associate Professor
  • Ph.D. (The ICFAI University, Dehradun, India), awarded with Excellent M.T.P. (The ICFAI University, Dehradun, India)
  • V.S.P. (Martin J. Whitman SOM, Syracuse University, NY, USA)

Teaching Areas

  • Financial Markets (PG)
  • Corporate Finance (PG, Doctoral)
  • Investment Management (PG)
  • Business Valuation (PG)
  • Project and infrastructure financing (PG)
  • Market Microstructure (Doctoral)

Experience

  • Xavier Labour Relations Institute (XLRI), Jamshedpur, India (2015-16)
  • IBS Hyderabad, IFHE University, Hyderabad, India (2009-12)
  • Martin J. Whitman School of Management, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY, USA (2008-09)
  • IIMT, Hyderabad, India (2006-08)
  • ISFS, Hyderabad, India (2005-06)

Training & Consulting Areas

  • Finance for Decision Making, MDP held at Chennai, July, 2015.
  • Investments, Project Finance, Financial risk management, Financial management, Management
  • FDP: Demystifying derivatives, NIT Jaipur, 2013
  • Training program for officials of the Primary Education Department (Jharkhand) on I.T. for Managers, 2013
  • Research project (with Prof. Vikas Srivastava as the lead researcher) titled Infrastructure Financing: Challenges of Restructuring, awarded by the Indian Institute of Banking and Finance for the year 2012-13.
  • MDP: Finance for Medical Professionals (IIM Ranchi), 2012.

Research Area

  • Risk Management in Banks
  • Asset Pricing
  • Market microstructure,
  • Experimental Finance,
  • Econometric modeling of time series data

Current Research Interests

  • Information content of Analysts’ recommendations

Professional Affiliation

  • Member of the American Finance Association (AFA)

Publications

  • A Study of Determinants of Predictive Accuracy of Analysts Estimates of Earnings in Indian Markets, working paper (under review), with Sharma Shweta, 2015
  • An examination of Time Varying Price Responds of Information Content of Analyst’s Estimates of Income, in the proceedings of ICTBM 2014, American University in the Emirates, March, 2014
  • A Study of Sources of Information Content of Analysts Estimates of Accounting Earnings, in the proceedings of India Finance Conference (IFC) 2013, Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, December, 2013
  • A Study of Information Content of Analysts Estimates of Accounting Income Numbers In the proceedings of India Finance Conference (IFC) held at Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Calcutta during December 2012
  • Appraisal of Bharat Insulation Limited (BIL): is the project financially viable?, Case study, The IUP Journal of management case studies (also by IBS Case Development Center and European Case Clearing House – ECCH) portal), 2011
  • Appraising Kolkata Metro Railway Corporation`s East West Metro Corridor project, Case study, IBS Center for Management Research (also by European Case Clearing House – ECCH), 2011
  • Analyzing impact of regulatory environment changes: Case of a power sector project in India, Case study, IBS Case Development Center (also by European Case Clearing House – ECCH), 2011
  • SKS Microfinance IPO: what went wrong?, Case study, The IUP Journal of management case studies and IBS Center for Management Research (also by European Case Clearing House – ECCH), 2011
  • A matter of trust: Johnson & Johnson product recalls, Case study, IBS Center for Management Research (also by European Case Clearing House – ECCH), 2011
  • Contemporaneous sources of volatility in an emerging market: Evidence from India, Conference Proceedings of The International Conference on the Global Financial Crisis (ICGFC 2009, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, US, June 2009, with Thomas Barkley (also accepted at the International Risk Management Conference (IRMC) 2009, University Ca ‘Foscari University of Venice, Venice, Italy
  • High Cost of Finance in Micro Credit Business In Andhra Pradesh (India): Problems and Possible Solutions, The IUP Journal of Management Research, April 2008
  • “Globalisation, Economic Reforms and Employment Strategy in India”, Book review, Vikalpa, Vol. 33, No. 2, 158-160, April, 2008
  • “Tectonic Shift: The Geoeconomic Realignment of Globalizing Markets”, Book review, South Asian Journal of Management, Vol.15, No.2, April, 2008, (with Pai V. S.)
  • Market Efficiency of Indian Commodities Futures Exchange: A Case of NCDEX, The IUP Journal of Derivative Markets, July 2007

Awards

  • Shortlist in top five papers for ‘Outstanding Paper Award’ at ‘INFOMS Best paper Competition’ at ICTBM, 2014 held at American University in the Emirates.
  • Won the Best Paper Award at The International Conference on the Global Financial Crisis (ICGFC 2009)- held at University of Nevada, Las Vegas, USA during June 2009.