Faculty Details
Faculty

Harshita  

Specialization
:
Finance and Accounting
Designation
:
Assistant Professor
Email
:
harshita@imi.edu

Harshita  

FRM: Global Association of Risk Profesionals (GARP)
CFA (Level I)
Ph. D. (Finance):  IIT Delhi
M. Com.: Shri Ram College of Commerce (SRCC), University of Delhi

Harshita  

A Certified Financial Risk Manager (FRM), Dr. Harshita earned her Ph. D. in Finance from IIT Delhi in the area of asset pricing and market efficiency. Her Alma Mater also includes Shri Ram College of Commerce, University of Delhi. She is a certificate holder of CFA Institute’s Investment Foundations. She had been awarded Junior Research Fellowship from the University Grants Commission for pursuing research anywhere in India. She is also an awardee of CBSE Merit Scholarship for her outstanding academic performance.

She has published journal articles with publishers of international repute, and acts as reviewer for a few journals. She is a recipient of Emerald Literati Award for Outstanding Paper. She has presented papers at prestigious institutes and societies, both nationally and internationally. She has played the roles of reviewer as well as discussant for conferences. She has received travel grant from the Research Promotional Fund of IIT Delhi for paper presentation at an international conference. She has attended FDPs, MDPs, summer schools, and workshops at institutes of international repute. She has also attended a one-week program on Financial Strategies for Value Creation at Nanyang Business School, NTU, Singapore.

Her research interests are in the areas of Asset Pricing, Information and Market Efficiency, Risk Management, and Contemporary Issues in Finance.

She has more than 4.5 years of experience in industry and academia. Prior to joining IMI, she has been associated with IMT Ghaziabad, FORE School of Management and Tata Power-Delhi Distribution Ltd.

Her webpage can be accessed at: https://sites.google.com/a/dmsiitd.org/harshita/

Harshita  

  • CS Warren, JP Jones, WB Tayler, Harshita and P Ashok (2024), Financial & Managerial Accounting (Indian Adaptation). Cengage (15e)

  • Sunil Sangwan, Narayan Chandra Nayak, Harshita and Vikas Sangwan (2021), Borrowers’ credit risk factors, perception towards repayment interventions and moral hazard in loan delinquency: An investigation of Indian microfinance institutions, Applied Economics. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1080/00036846.2021.1946478 

  • Neelam Rani, Harshita and Pranishaa R Prakash (2021), Blockchain in Capital Markets: Applications, Possibilities and Challenges, South Asian Journal of Management, Volume 28, No. 1, pp. 150-170. Available at: EBSCO and ProQuest databases

  • Somayya Madakam and Harshita (2021), Blockchain Technology: Concepts, Components, and Cases in Zaigham Mahmood (Ed.), Industry Use Cases on Blockchain Technology Applications in IoT and the Financial Sector (pp. 215-247). Pennsylvania: IGI Global. Available at: https://www.igi-global.com/chapter/blockchain-technology/273817 

  • Harshita (2020), Review of the book Data Analytics with R, by Bharti Motwani, Abhigyan Quest for Excellence, Volume 37, No. 4, pp. 60-61.

  • Vikas Sangwan, Harshita, Puneet Prakash and Shveta Singh (2020), Financial Technology: A review of extant literature, Studies in Economics and Finance,  Volume 37, No. 1, pp. 71-88. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1108/SEF-07-2019-0270

  • Harshita (2019), Ph.D. Abstract: Stock market anomalies: An empirical study in Indian context, DIAS Technology Review, Volume 16, No. 1, pp. 55-58. Available at: https://dias.ac.in/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Stock-Market-Anom-55-58.pdf

  • Harshita, Shveta Singh and Surendra S. Yadav (2019), Unique calendar effects in the Indian stock market: Evidence and explanations, Journal of Emerging Market Finance, Volume 18, Issue 1_suppl, pp. S35-S58. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1177/0972652719831549

  • Harshita, Shveta Singh and Surendra S. Yadav (2018-2019), Size effect in Indian stock market: An anomaly or a methodological artifact, Journal of Financial Management and Analysis, Volume 31, 2018-2019 Composite Issue, pp. 71-81. Available at: EBSCO and ProQuest databases

  • Surendra S. Yadav, Shveta Singh and Harshita (12-13 November 2018), FinTech: A new tint of glasses to see the age-old world of Finance, published in The Experts’ Voice for International Conference on Emerging Perspectives in FinTech, organized by National Institute of Financial Management, Ministry of Finance, Government of India and Department of Management Studies, IIT Delhi at India Habitat Centre, New Delhi, pp. 4-7. Available at: http://www.nifm.ac.in/sites/default/files/E-Compendium_0.pdf

  • Harshita (October 2018), Stock market anomalies : An empirical study in Indian context, Doctoral thesis, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi. Abstract available at: http://eprint.iitd.ac.in/handle/2074/7933

  • Harshita, Shveta Singh and Surendra S. Yadav (2018), Sheyar baazaar visangatiyaan: Bhaarat me sarvekshan, Jigyasa, Volume 32, pp. 73-84. Available at: https://hindi.iitd.ac.in/uploads/2018

  • Harshita, Shveta Singh and Surendra S. Yadav (2018), Post-earnings-announcement drift anomaly in India: A test of market efficiency, Theoretical Economics Letters, Volume 8, pp.3178-3195. Available at: https://doi.org/10.4236/tel.2018.814197

  • Harshita, Shveta Singh, and Surendra S. Yadav (2018), Changing nature of the value premium in the Indian stock market, Vision: The Journal of Business Perspective, Volume 22, Issue 2, pp.135-143. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1177/0972262918766135

  • Harshita, Shveta Singh and Surendra S. Yadav (2018), Calendar anomaly: Unique evidence from the Indian stock market, Journal of Advances in Management Research, Volume 15, Issue 1, pp. 87-108. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1108/JAMR-11-2016-0096

  • Harshita, Shveta Singh and Surendra S. Yadav (2015), Indian Stock Market and the Asset Pricing Models, Procedia Economics and Finance, Volume 30C, pp. 294-304. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1016/S2212-5671(15)01297-6

Harshita  

  • Harshita, ESG performance and stock market returns during crisis: Evidence from emerging economies, presented at FORE International Business Conference (FIBC) 2020, held at FORE School of Management, New Delhi in virtual mode (27-28 November 2020).

  • Vikas Sangwan, Harshita, Shveta Singh and Surendra S. Yadav, FinTech: A bag of opportunities and threats, presented at International Conference on Emerging Perspectives in FinTech, organized by National Institute of Financial Management, Ministry of Finance, Government of India and Department of Management Studies, IIT Delhi (12-13 November 2018).

  • Harshita, Shveta Singh and Surendra S. Yadav, Size effect in Indian stock market: An anomaly or a methodological artifact, presented at 17th Consortium of Students in Management Research (COSMAR), held at Indian Institute of Science Bangalore in Bengaluru (20-21 November 2017).

  • Harshita, Shveta Singh and Surendra S. Yadav, Post-earnings-announcement-drift anomaly in the Indian stock market, presented at Conversations on Research (CoRe): IGIDR Ph.D. Colloquium, held at Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research in Mumbai (7-10 November 2017).

  • Harshita, Shveta Singh, and Surendra S. Yadav, Testing the interaction of calendar effect with size and value effects: Evidence from the Indian stock market, presented at the 53rd Annual Conference of The Indian Econometric Society, held at National Institute of Science Education and Research, Bhubaneswar (22-24 December, 2016).

  • Harshita, Shveta Singh, and Surendra S. Yadav, Testing the robustness of size and value premium in the Indian stock market, presented at the International Conference on Financial Markets and Corporate Finance, held at Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai (12-13 August, 2016).

  • Harshita, Shveta Singh, and Surendra S. Yadav, Indian Stock Market and the Asset Pricing Models, presented at the 4th Economics & Finance Conference, organized by the International Institute of Social and Economic Sciences in London (25-28 August 2015).

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