Our Faculty

Prasenjit Chakrabarti

Assistant Professor
  • PhD (Finance), IIM Indore
  • Visiting Research Scholar, Deakin Business School, Deakin University, Australia
  • B.Tech and B.Sc. (Physics), Jadavpur University..

Prof. Prasenjit Chakrabarti is a faculty member of Finance & Accounting area at the Indian Institute of Management Ranchi. He completed his doctoral degree in Finance at the Indian Institute of Management Indore. He was a visiting research scholar at Deakin Business School, Australia. Before joining academics, he worked for seven years in the industry, for PwC consulting practices and IBM. Prof. Chakrabarti has contributed to several refereed international publications. His primary research interest is in financial institutions, its regulations and policy induced distortions. He has been actively voicing his opinion in major financial dailies and newspapers. He earned his B.Tech. and B.Sc. (Physics) from Jadavpur University..

Teaching Areas

  • Fixed Income Securities (MBA)
  • Corporate Finance (MBA)
  • Quantitative Research (Ph.D.)

Experience

  • IMT Ghaziabad: (Feb 2018 to Oct 2018)
  • IBM: (Oct 2012 to Jun 2013)
  • PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC): (Jul 2006 to Oct 2012).

Research Area

  • Regulation of banks and financial institutions
  • Regulations of Financial Markets
  • Corporate Finance

Publications

    Selected Journal Publications:
  • Chakrabarti, Prasenjit, and Jasmeet Kaur. "Zombie-lending during the pandemic in India: Did the Central Bank reduce credit misallocation concerns of forbearance?." Journal of Policy Modeling , 46, no. 1 (2024), 153-170
  • Chakrabarti, Prasenjit, and Sudipta Sen. "Foreign currency borrowing and risk exposure of firms: An emerging market economy viewpoint." Journal of Policy Modeling 45, no. 6 (2023):1246-1261.
  • Chakrabarti, Prasenjit, Mohammad Shameem Jawed, and Manish Sarkhel. “COVID-19 pandemic and global financial market interlinkages: a dynamic temporal network analysis.” Applied Economics 53, no. 25 (2021): 2930-2945.
  • Selected Peer-Reviewed Conferences:
  • The Financial System and Macroeconomy in Emerging Economies, CAFRAL Annual Conference
  • Annual Conference on Economic Growth and Development, ISI Delhi
  • Emerging Markets Conference, Mumbai
  • Asia-Pacific Association of Derivatives (APAD) held by Korean Derivatives Association (KDA) in Busan, Korea
  • Fifth International Conference on Futures and Other Derivatives, Shenzhen, China
  • Multinational Finance Society Conference, Poland
  • World Finance Conference, Italy
  • Op-Eds/Columns in Financial Dailies and Newspapers:
  • “Assessing RBI’s On-Tap Liquidity Scheme”, Financial Express, May 24, 2021
  • “The moral hazard headache”, The Hindu Business Line, September 24, 2021
  • “Why a bad bank needs a sunset clause”, The Hindu Business Line, November 11, 2021
  • “RBI’s gamble on banks’ balance sheets”, The Hindu Business Line, February 16, 2022
  • “Playing the bond game” The Hindu Business Line, October 04, 2023

Awards

  • University Grants Commission (UGC) Scholarship, Government of India
  • Best paper-15th Consortium of Students in Management Research Organized by: Department of Management Studies, IISc Bangalore