Research Areas:
Banking; Financial Markets; Risk Management; Corporate Finance

Recent Consulting:
Credit Delivery System in Bihar, for Reserve Bank of India (jointly with Prof Sukumar Nandi), 2006
Mergers and Acquisitions in PSU Banks" (together with Dr. Rudra Sensarma), funded by Indian Institute of Banking and Finance, November 2006
"Basel-II and Credit Risk", funded by Indian Institute of Banking and Finance, Mumbai March 2005
Restructuring of UP State Bridge Corporation, (jointly with Dr KN Singh and Dr Shailendra Singh) for UP State Bridge Corporation, 2005

Academic Positions: 
IIM Bangalore: October 2006- present
ESCP-EAP, European School of Management, Paris, 2004
Associate Professor in the area of Finance and Accounting, IIM Lucknow, India, 2001- 2006
Middle Management Cadre of Central Bank of India and Faculty Member in the area of Investment Banking, Central Bank of India, 1997-2000

Other Professional Appointments:
Editorial Committee Member, ICFAI Journal of Accounting Research, Published by ICFAI
Editorial Advisory Board member, The Journal of Venture Capital and Financial Services, Published by the Institute of Public Enterprise, Hyderabad
Editorial Advisory Member, Mudra: The SIGFI Journal of Finance (2002-06)

Significant Publications:
Books

Investment Policy and Performance of Mutual Funds, Kanishka Publishers and Distributors, New Delhi, 1998.

Managerial Accounting: Creating Value in a Dynamic Business Environment, Ronald W Hilton, G Ramesh, and M Jayadev, Seventh Edition, Tata McGraw-Hill Publishing Company Limited, New Delhi, 2008

Select Papers in Refereed Journals

1. Default Risk Characteristics of Poll Based Bond Spreads: Evidence from India (co-authored with Joshy Jacob) forth coming Journal of Emerging Market Finance

2. 'Are Bank Stocks Sensitive to Risk Management?(co-authored with Rudra Sensarma), The Journal of Risk Finance, Vol.10, No.1, pp7-22

3. Mergers in Indian Banking: An Analysis (co-authored with Rudra Sensarma), South Asian Journal of Management, Vol. 14, No.4, 2007, pp-20-49

4. Internal Credit Rating Practices of Indian Banks: A Survey, Economic and Political Weekly, (Special Issue on Money, Banking and Finance), March 18-24, 2006, pp1069-1078

5. Predictive Power of Financial Risk Factors: An Empirical Analysis of Default Companies, Vikalpa Vol.31, No.3, 2006,pp-45-56

6. The Announcement Impact of Bank Rate on Commercial Paper Rate: Evidence from Indian Market (coauthored with Sunil Kumar), Journal of International Business and Economics, Vol.1. No.1, 2004, pp.179-191.

7. Margin Computation in Agro Commodity Futures Markets: A Value at Risk Approach (coauthored with Sunil Kumar), The ICFAI Journal of Applied Finance, November 2004

8. Performance Evaluation of Portfolio Managers: An Empirical Evidence on Indian Mutual Funds" The ICFAI Journal of Applied Finance Vol.5, No.2, July 1998. Reprinted in "Research Papers in Applied Finance" an ICFAI publication, December 1999.

Select Conference Papers:

1. Paper entitled "Does Corporate Governance Matter in Indian Banks? ( co authored with Rejie George and Vidya Suresh) presented at the "Research Symposium on Corporate Governance in India and China", organized by Old Dominion University during October 24&25,2008, at Virginia beach, USA.
2. Paper entitled "Impact of Risk Management on Shareholder's Wealth: Evidence from Indian Banks" (co authored with Rudra Sensarma) has been accepted for presentation at 12th Finsia- Melbourne Centre for Financial Studies Banking and Finance Conference, September 24 and 25, 2007
3. Paper presented on Credit Spreads of Indian Corporate Bonds: An Empirical Analysis (co authored with Joshy Jacob) at 2006 Asian FA/FMA Conference
10-12 July2006 Auckland, New Zealand
4. The paper entitled "Basel-II and Credit Risk", presented at the Seminar on Risk Management organised by Indian Institute of Banking and Finance on September 17, 2005 at Jaipur.
5. The Paper entitled " The New Basel Capital Accord: An Analysis of Critical Issues and Implications" presented at the Conference on Research in Finance and Accounting held at Indian Institute of Management, Lucknow March 17 and 18, 2005
6. The paper entitled "The Announcement Impact of Bank Rate on Commercial Paper Rate: Evidence from Indian Market" (coauthored with Sunil Kumar) presented at the Annual Conference of International Academy of Business and Economics, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, October 17-20, 2004.

7. The paper entitled "The Announcement Impact of Bank Rate on Commercial Paper Rate" (coauthored with Sunil Kumar) presented at the Sixth Annual Conference on Money and Finance in the Indian Economy organised by the Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research(IGIDR) during March 25-27, 2004

8. The paper entitled " Interest Rate Term Structure in the Indian Money Market"(co authored with Mayank Shivam) presented at the Sixth Annual Conference on Money and Finance in the Indian Economy organised by the Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research(IGIDR) during March 25-27, 2004

9. The paper entitled "Pricing of Commercial Paper: A Cointegration Analysis", (co authored with Mayank Shivam and Munish Goyal) presented at the Seventh Capital Markets Conference 2003, organised by the Indian Institute of Capital Markets (formerly UTI Institute of Capital Markets, Mumbai) during December 18-19, 2003. The paper was adjudged as an outstanding paper and received the Cash award