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Biography

Personal Details:

I am not offering any summer / winter internship projects under me currently.

Contact Details:

M-309, New Academic Block, IIM Calcutta

Academics

Academic Background:

B. Tech. (IIT Kharagpur), MBA (PGDM from IIM Ahmedabad), Ph.D. (Fellow from IIM Calcutta)

Courses Taught:

Corporate Finance, Equity Financing, Investment Analysis and Portfolio Management, Financial Risk Management, Empirical Accounting Research, Financial Econometrics

Current Projects:

• Impact of Audit Failure on Clients of Big 4 Auditors
• Financial Implications of Discretionary Retirement Benefits
• Examination of Intra-day Limit Order Book Characteristics in IPO Aftermarkets

Experience

Work Experience:

• Associate Professor, Finance & Control Group, IIM Calcutta (2022 - On-going)
• Assistant Professor, Finance & Control Group, IIM Calcutta (2018 - 2022)
• Assistant Professor, Finance & Accounting Area, IIM Indore (2015 - 2018)
• Associate, Investment Banking Division, UBS Securities India (2007 - 2009)
• Graduate Engineer Trainee (GET), Production and Assembly Operations, Tata-Hitachi Construction Machinery (2004 - 2005)

Research

Journal Publications:

• Innovations in Financing: The Impact of Anchor Investors in Indian IPOs. (2020). European Financial Management. (co-authored)
• An Empirical Analysis of Audit Pricing and Auditor Selection: Evidence from India. (2019). Managerial Auditing Journal. (co-authored)
• Innovations in New Venture Financing: Evidence from Indian SME IPOs. (2017). Global Finance Journal. 
• An Examination of Adverse Selection Risk in Indian IPO After-Markets using High Frequency Data. (2014). International Journal of Economic Sciences. (co-authored)

Conferences:

• (2019) An Empirical Analysis of Audit Pricing and Auditor Selection: Evidence from India, presented at Eastern Finance Association (EFA) Conference (Florida, USA).
• (2018) Financial Implications of Discretionary Retirement Benefits, presented in the South Western Finance Association (SWFA) Conference (New Mexico, US).
• (2017) An Empirical Study of Association between Old-Age Employee Benefits and Firm Performance, presented at the International Conference on Financial Markets & Corporate Finance (IIT Kharagpur). 
• (2016) Intra-day Liquidity Provision with Limit Orders in IPO Aftermarkets: Evidence from India, presented at the Vietnam Symposium in Banking and Finance (Hanoi, Vietnam)
• (2015) Does Institutional Participation Enhance IPO Performance? Evidence from the Indian Capital Market, presented at IFABS Oxford Conference (Oxford, London and Hangzhou, China). 
• (2014) Role of Retail Investor Participation in Developing Secondary Market Liquidity for Indian IPOs, presented at the Eastern Finance Association (EFA) Conference (Pennsylvania, USA).

Research Interests:

• Corporate Finance, Market Microstructure, Empirical Accounting Issues