Areas of Specialisation

Students are admitted to the PhD programme, and in due course have the option of choosing from the following area(s) of specialisation

• Data Science & Information Systems
• Economics
• Finance, Accounting & Quantitative Finance
• Marketing
• Operations
• Organisational Behaviour & Human Resources
• Strategic Management

Current Research Topics

• Climate adaptation in India: Exploring the role of institutions
• Understanding the Literature on Advertising Ethics
• Understanding Stock Market Reaction on new product announcements
• The determinants of women’s financial inclusion
• Regional Differences in Development: Analysis of Household Consumption
• Caste and COVID-19: Exploring Variations in Health Expenditures among Different Caste Groups in India
• Bankruptcy prediction using machine learning

Recent conference papers

B., Manasi & Mukhopadhyay, Jyoti Prasad. 2023. Definition, Measurement and Determinants of Energy Poverty: Empirical Evidence from Indian Household, 7th Nordic Development Research Conference, Uppsala University, Sweden, August 21-23, 2023.

Basu, Soumyabrata & Das, Amit. 2023. Incorporating Human Knowledge in Explainable AI Research – How Experts Align with Machine-Generated Predictors of Bankruptcy, International Conference on Management Research, Department of Management Studies Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India, November 16-18,2023.
Choudhary, Utkarsh. 2023. The last-mile delivery of digital literacy: an overview of Pradhan Mantri Grameen Digital Shaksharta Abhiyan (PMGDISHA), XVIII International Conference on Public Policy & Management 2023, IIM Bangalore, India, August 22-24, 2023

Kinhikar, Mugdha & Mishra, Narbadeshwar. 2023. Temperature Shocks, Crime and Social Welfare Programs: Evidence from India, World Bank Group Dhaka, Bangladesh, October 30-31, 2023.

Kumar, Aditya & Kumar, Lakshmi. 2023. Impact of No Detention Policy on Learning Outcomes: Evidence from India, 21st Nordic Conference in Development Economics (NCDE), University of Gothenburg, Sweden, June 13-15, 2023.

Ashutosh, Kumar 2023. Street Safety: Fuel to Girls’ Secondary Schooling in India, Applied Young Economist Webinar (AYEW)Development Economics Workshop, Monash University (Virtual), November 8, 2023.

M., Nidhin & Kumar, Vinod. 2023. Are ESG disclosures relevant for lenders? Empirical Evidence from India, World Finance Conference, University of Agder, Kristiansand, Norway, August 2-4 2024, 2023.

Mishra, Narbadeshwar & Mukhopadhyay, Jyoti Prasad. 2023. Does Nutrition Provisioning Impact Educational and Learning Outcomes of Adolescent Girls? Empirical Evidence from India, ADEW 2023, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia, June 8-9, 2023

Muricken, Navya J., Bhagawan, Praveen, & Mukhopadhyay, Jyoti Prasad. 2023. Does the Presence of Female Member on Corporate Boards matter for Firm Value? Empirical Evidence from India, World Finance Conference, University of Agder, Kristiansand, Norway, August 2-4, 2023.

Pal, Kalyani, Mukhopadhyay, Jyoti Prasad, & Bhagwan, Praveen. 2023. Does Cap-and-Trade Scheme Impact Energy Efficiency and Firm Value? Empirical Evidence from India, Asian Meeting of the Econometric Society in East and Southeast Asia, Singapore, July 28-30, 2023.

Publications

Basu, Soumyabrata & Majumdar, Devleena. 2023. Exchange Rate Uncertainty and India’s Bilateral Trade: A Gravity Model Approach, Arthaniti:Journal of Economic Theory and Practice,
https://doi.org/10.1177/09767479231178953

Chacko, Jains P. & Padmakumari, Lakshmi. 2023. Does ownership structure affect the ex-ante cost of capital?, Investment Management and Financial Innovations, Volume 20 (Issue 1), pp.112-126, http://dx.doi.org/10.21511/imfi.20(1).2023.11

Chacko, Jains P. & Padmakumari, Lakshmi. 2023. The effect of investment inefficiency on expected returns, Journal of Emerging Market Finance, Volume 22 (Issue 3), pp.112-126, https://doi.org/10.1177/09726527231165365

G., Vismaya & Padmakumari, Lakshmi. 2023. Annual report readability and stock return synchronicity: Evidence from India, Cogent Economics and Finance, Volume 11 (Issue 1), https://doi.org/10.1080/23322039.2023.2186034

G., Vismaya & Padmakumari, Lakshmi. 2023. Fogging the firm performance: An empirical examination of the annual report readability in India, International Journal of Disclosure and Governance, https://doi.org/10.1057/s41310-023-00195-3

Somya, Surabhi & Saripalle, Madhuri. 2023. The Determinants of Firm’s Growth in the Telecommunication Services Industry: Empirical Evidence from India, Journal of Quantitative Economics, Volume 21 (Issue 1), pp.193-211, https://doi.org/10.1007/s40953-022-00334-7
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