pkp

• PhD, University of Madras, 2004
• M.Phil, Osmania University, 1990
• M.Com, Osmania University, 1988
• M.B.A. (Finance), University of Madras

• Teaching Interests
  • Financial Management
  • Financial Accounting
  • Security Analysis and Portfolio Management
  • International Finance
  • Corporate Governance
• Research Interests
  • Corporate Governance
  • Stock Market Analysis
  • Corporate Finance
  • Fixed Income Markets
  • Financial Risk management

• Presented Paper on "Determinants of Non Performing Loans in Indian Banking System" , International conference in Economics and finance –ARC 2013at Kochi, 25-26, July 2013.
• "Impact of Financial crisis on Indian Commodity Markets: Structural breaks and Volatility dynamics", the 51st Meeting of the EWGFM and 1st Conference of the Research Centre for Energy Management (RCEM) to be held in London at the ESCP Europe campus, on 16-18, May 2013.
• “Portfolio Risk Management with Higher Moments in Global Stock Markets”, accepted for presentation At 3rd Global Accounting, Finance and Economics conference to be held at Melbourne, Australia during 5-7, May 2013.
• "Portfolio Optimization with Higher Moments: Evidence from Indian Stock Market", presented in India Finance Conference held at Indian Institute of Management Calcutta during ,19-21 Dec 2012.
• Presented Paper on "Information Assimilation among Indian Stocks: Impact of Turnover and Firm size", Athenaeum 2012, BIM Trichy during Feb 11-12, 2012. Won Best Paper Award.
• Presented Paper on "Foreign Institutional Investment and liquidity of Stock Market: Evidence from India", International conference on Frontier Global issues in Accounting and Finance organized by Research Development Association , Jaipur , Jan 5-6, 2012. Won Best Paper Award.
• Presented Paper on "The speed of stock price adjustment to market wide information in India", India Finance Conference, IIMB, Bangalore Dec 21-23, 2011.
• Presented Paper on "Corporate Governance and Stock Market Liquidity in India", 2nd Finance and Corporate Governance conference, 28-29, April 2011, Melbourne, Australia.
• Presented Paper on "Corporate Governance and dividend Payout", 10-12, Jan 2011, International Conference, IIMC Kolkata.
• Presented Paper on “Corporate Governance: Stock market Volatility and efficiency”, 9-10,Jan 2009,International conference on business and Finance , organized by IBS, Hyderabad.
• Presented Paper on “Shaking hands across the National Divide: How foreign collaborators succeed in India”, 18-19Dec2008 , International conference on Financial Risk Management – Innovative Tools and Techniques , organized by IBS Chennai. Joint paper with Dr. Joseph Johnson, University of Miami
• Presented Paper on "Impact of Foreign Institutional Investment on Indian Stock Markets" , 27-29 Dec, 2007 , International conference on Emerging Financial markets organized by International center for finance ,PSG Institute of Management , Coimbatore.
• Presented Paper on “Foreign Institutional Investors-investment preferences in India” 12-14, Feb,2007, 8th International conference on Quality, Innovation and Knowledge management organized by Monash University in New Delhi.
• Research Paper titled “Corporate Governance – Independent Directors and Financial Performance: An empirical Analysis” was Presented in Ninth Capital Markets Conference Organized by Indian institute of Capital Markets on 19-20, December 2005.
• Research Paper titled “Corporate Governance – Independent Directors an Expectations gap: An empirical Analysis” was presented in International Conference on Business and Finance Organized by ICFAI Business School, Hyderabad on 22-23, December 2005.
• Presented a paper on “Auditing Services and Challenges” in UGC organized sponsored National Seminar Organized by Department of Commerce, University of Madras on 28 March, 2003.
• Presented a paper on “Corporate Governance in India- Implementation of Birla Committee code” , ( based on selected companies) in UGC organized sponsored National Seminar Organized by Department of Management Studies, University of Madras on 21 Feb, 2003.
• Presented Paper on “Corporate Governance” in UGC sponsored Seminar Organized by Department of Political Science, University of Madras on 29-30, April 2002.

• Qualified in UGC NET in 1992.

Won Best Paper Awards for the following papers

• "Determinants of Non Performing Loans in Indian Banking System", International conference in Economics and finance –ARC 2013 at Kochi, 25-26, July 2013.
• "Information Assimilation among Indian stocks: Impact of turnover and firm size", presented at Athenaeum 2012, Feb 11-12, 2012 at BIM Trichy.
• "Foreign institutional investment and liquidity of Stock market: Evidence from India", presented at International conference on Frontier Global issues in Accounting and Finance organized by Research Development Association, Jaipur, Jan 5-6, 2012.
• "Impact of Foreign Institutional Investment on Indian Stock Markets", presented at International conference on Emerging Financial markets organized by International center for finance PSG Institute of Management, Coimbatore, 27-29, Dec 2007.
• Linkages in term structure of interest rates across sovereign bond markets. 5 1st Eastern Finance Association Annual Conference, April 11-15, New Orleans, U.S.A.

• Saranya and Krishna Prasanna, Jump Contagion across International Stock Markets
• Suraj Kumar and Krishna Prasanna, Global Financial Crisis: Dynamics of Liquidity Risk in Emerging Asia