A Kanagaraj

Professor in the area of Finance at XLRI Jamshedpur. He is a Post Graduate and Doctorate from Pondicherry University.

Prior to joining XLRI in June 2012, he has worked for about 6 years in Indian Institute of Management Indore. He has also worked with business schools like DCSMAT, TSM and TAPMI. His teaching and research interest includes Corporate finance, Merger and Acquisitions, Business Valuation, Capital market investments, Financial reporting and analysis, Investment management, International finance, Corporate risk management, Alternative investments, Corporate governance. He has presented number of papers in various International Conferences held in France, Germany, Austria, China, and Vietnam.

He has published article in various reputed research journals like Applied Economics, Journal of Asia Business Studies, International Journal of Production and Performance Management, Journal of Financial Risk Management, Journal of International Finance and Economics, Journal of Modern Accounting and Auditing, Asian Journal of Finance and Accounting, Journal of Applied Finance & Banking, International Journal of Applied Decision Sciences, NIBM’s Prajnan, Asian Economic Review, Journal of Applied Finance, and IIM Kozhikode Society & Management Review

He has designed and executed corporate training programmes for executives of Fidelity Investments, Oracle India, DC Bank, NTPC, ONGC, Alstom India, ICRA, L&T, Sundaram BNP Paribas, Mahindra Finance, Impetus India, SAIL, Tata Steel, ACC Cements, MRF Tiers, Exide Batteries, Ashok Leyland, Tata Motors, Bharati Airtel, Hindustan Petroleum, West Bengal Power Distribution Company, State Bank of India, Canara Bank, Impetus, Accenture Technologies, Indian Oil, BCCIL, and Power Grid Corporation of India Ltd.

His popular management training programmes include Financial Reporting and Analysis, Fixed Income Analysis, Advance Corporate Finance, Derivatives and Risk Management, Business Valuation, M&A, Strategic Cost Management, Private Banking, and Corporate Restructuring. He was a visiting faculty in BEM Management School, Bordeaux, France, IIM Ranchi, IIM Raipur, IIM Shillong, Goa Institute of Management, and XIMR Mumbai.

He was an independent Director of National Board of Trade Ltd. He was a invited member of Auditing & Assurance Standards Board, The Institute of Chartered Accountants, New Delhi.

He was also an invited member of Accounting Standards Board, The Institute of Chartered Accountants, New Delhi.

Journal Articles-Refereed

• 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
• 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.
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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