Prof. A Kanagaraj

Prof. A Kanagaraj

Qualification : Ph.D.

Email : kanagaraj@xlri.ac.in

Functional Area : Finance

Brief Profile  

Experience Detail  

Prof. A Kanagaraj

Prof. A Kanagaraj

Achievements and Research Interest/Area of Research Interests

Academic Distinction (Awards and Scholarships)

Adminstrative Distinction

Other Achievements

Area of RESEARCH INTERESTS

Corporate Finance

Corporate Risk Management
Corporate Governance
Capital Markets

Faculty Development Programs Attended

Courses Taught

1.Corporate Finance

2.Financial Accounting

3.Management Accounting

4.Business Analysis and Valuation

5.Merger, Acquisition, and Corporate Restructuring

6.Financial Statement Analysis

7.Alternative Investments

8.Investment Management

9.Corporate Risk Management

10.Derivatives

11.Financial Engineering

12.International Financial Management

13.Corporate Governance and Frauds

Consultancy Undertaken

In-Company Programs

INTELLECTUAL CONTRIBUTIONS (PUBLICATIONS)

Journal Articles-Refereed

  1. Archana Patro and A. Kanagaraj, Exploring the Herding Behaviour in Indian Mutual Fund Industry, Asian Journal of Finance and Accounting, Vol. 4, No. 1, in June 2012
  2. Kanagaraj and Ekta Sikarwar, A Firm Level Analysis of the Exchange Rate Exposure of Indian Firms, Journal of Applied Finance & Banking, vol.1, no.4, 163-184, 2011.
  3. Chauhan, G. S. and Kanagaraj, A., Can Risk Monitoring of Banks by Subordinate Debt be made effective by Non-Diversified Investors? Investigation of Non-Diversified Investments by Sector Specific Mutual Funds in India. Prajnan, Vol. XL, No. 1, ISSN No. 0970-8448, 2011
  4. Chauhan, G. S. and Kanagaraj, A., Risk Monitoring by Non-Diversified Inverstors: Implications for Subordinate Debt Issuance by Banks. Working paper no. WP/01/011/F&A. IIM Indore, 2011
  5. Nalini Prava Tripathy, S. V. Ramana Rao, and A. Kanagaraj; "Impact of Derivatives Trading on Spot Market Volatility: An Empirical Study in India" International Journal of Applied Decision Sciences, Vol. 2, No. 2, pp 209-232, 2009
  6. Ramana Rao, Nalini Prava Tripathy, A. Kanagaraj; "Does Individual Stock Futures Affect Stock Market Volatility in India" Asian Economic Review, Vol. 50 No. 1, pp 125-134, April 2008
  7. Kanagaraj and B Murugesan; "Evaluation of information content in credit rating using binary logistic regression", ICFAI Journal of Applied Finance, Vol. 12 No. 10, pp 40-64, Oct. 2006
  8. Malabika Deo and A. Kanagaraj; "The relationship between financial variables and credit rating  An empirical testing, Business Perspective, Vol. 7 No. 2, pp 1-9, Jul. 2005

Published Research Monographs

Scholarly Books

Chapters in Scholarly books

Conference Proceedings-Refereed

Paper Presentations-Refereed

1.Attended IBEC 2016 conference from 6 to 9 Jan 2016 in Nrtingen-Geislingen University of Applied Science, Germany and presented a paper titled, "Is Earnings Management a Technique to reduce Cost of Capital  Exploratory Study on Indian Companies"

2.Attended 1st All India Conference on Finance and Economics held at ICFAI Business School, Bangalore,  from 26th to 27th Nov, 2004 and presented a paper entitled, "Evaluation of Financial Information Content in Debenture Rating using Rank Transformed Regression"

3.Attended COSMAR 2004 held in IISc. Bangalore, and presented a paper entitled, "Evaluation of Financial Information Content in Debenture Rating using Binary Logistic Regression"

4.Attended UGC sponsored national level seminar (28thMarch 2003) on "Challenges of Services Sector, in Madras University, Chennai, and presented two papers entitled (i) "The Emerging Challenges to CRAs" and (ii) "Housing Finance: The Road Ahead"

5.Attended 56thAll Commerce Conference held at Jalgaon, from 25thto 27thDec, 2003 conducted by North Maharashtra University, Jalgaon - 425 002 and presented a paper entitled, "Globalisation of n Agricultural Trade - A Study of Pre and Post WTO Period"

6.Attended UGC sponsored national seminar (5th & 6thMarch 2003) on Recent Trends in Banking Sector -  in Annamalai University, Annamalai Nagar, and presented a paper entitled, "CRM: A Revolution in Banking Industry"

7.Presented paper entitled "PMS: Ready for the Market" in national seminar (23rd Feb. 2002) Marketing Financial Services in Revenskwa College, Orissa

8.Presented paper entitled "Non Performing Assets Management" in UGC sponsored national seminar (April 2001) on "E-Banking" in Jai Narayan Vyas University, Jodhpur

9.Attended UGC sponsored national seminar (2000) on "Recent Trends in Banking Sector" in Arighnar Anna Arts College, Cheyar, and presented a paper entitled, "NPAs and Recovery Management"

Text Books

Research Report

Working paper

Key note presentation

Published articles in newspapers/magazines

Cases developed for Teaching purpose

Other Professional Activities

Co-ordinating/Organizing Workshop/Conferences /MDPs

  1. MDP on "Financial Statement Analysis"
  2. MDP on "Advanced Corporate Finance"
  3. MDP of "Strategic Financial Management"
  4. MDP on "Finance for Non Finance Executives"
  5. MDP on "Derivatives and Risk Management"
  6. MDP on "Fixed Income Analysis"
  7. MDP on "Merger and Acquisition"
  8. Customized in-company programme for Fidelity Investments, Oracle India, DC Bank, NTPC, ONGC, Alstom India, Bandhan, L&T, Sundaram BNP Paribas, Mahindra Finance, Impetus India, SAIL, Tata Steel, Ashok Leyland, Power Grid, Exide Industries Ltd, MRF Ltd, and ACC Ltd

Guide/evaluator/ examiner at doctoral research level

  1. Applications VaR in Indian Stock Market
  2. Applications of Real options in Electricity Sector Investment
  3. Bank`s Risk Management - Subordinate Debt and Deposit Insurance Perspective
  4. Corporate Governance Influence on Earnings Management in Indian Firms

Visiting Faculty

  1. Visited BEM Management School, Bordeaux, France to teach a course for MBA Students (2011)
  2. Visiting faculty at IIM Ranchi, IIM Shillong, Goa Institute of Management, and XIMR Mumbai