Dr. Reena Nayyar, associate professor (finance) has over seven years of experience in teaching and research. Prior to that, she was associated with Indian Institute of Management Rohtak and Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode as faculty member in area of finance. Her areas of teaching interest are Financial Accounting and Analysis, Management Accounting, and Financial Management. Her area of research interest is value creation in mergers and acquisitions. She has published research papers in journals of national and international repute. She can be reached at reena.nayyar@imi.edu.

Kohli R. and Singh, B. S. M. (2008), “Empirical Analysis of Bank Mergers in India: A Study of Market versus Non-Market Driven Merger”, Decision, Journal of IIM Calcutta, Vol. 35, No. 1, pp. 47-73.

Kohli R. and Singh, B. S. M. (2009), “HDFC Bank and CBoP Merger: A Quest for Growth”, ICFAI Journal of Mergers and Acquisitions, Vol. 06, No. 1, pp. 38-59. 

Kohli R. and Singh, B. S. M. (2009), “Impact of Mode of Payment and Insider Ownership on Target and Acquirer's Announcement Returns in India”, Vikalpa, Journal of IIM Ahmedabad, Vol. 34, No. 4, pp. 51-66.

Kohli R. and Singh, B. S. M. (2011), “Target Wealth Creation in Domestic and Cross Border Acquisitions in India”, International Journal of Commerce and Management, Emerald, Vol. 21, No. 1, pp. 63-81.

Kohli R. and Singh, B. S. M. (2012), “Do Brand Acquisitions Create Wealth for Acquiring Company Shareholders? Evidence from India”, Journal of Product & Brand Management, Emerald, Vol. 21, No. 4, pp. 265-274, ISSN No.: 10610421. 

Kohli R. and Singh, B. S. M. (2012), “Analyzing Determinants of Wealth Creation in Domestic and Cross Border Acquisitions in India”, International Business Review, Elsevier, Vol. 21, No. 6, pp. 998-1016, 

Kohli R. and Singh, B. S. M. (2013), “Analyzing the Likelihood and the Impact of Earnout Offers on Acquiring Company Wealth Gains in India”, Emerging Markets Review, Elsevier, Vol. 16, No. 1, pp. 203-222. 

Kohli R. (2013), “Analyzing the long run financial performance of cross border acquisitions of Indian acquiring companies and determinants there of”, Amity Global Business Review, Vol. March 2013, pp. 37-42

Kohli R. (2014), “The Promise of a New Beginning”, Economy and Industry, Vol. 3, No. 2, pp. 14-17, Business Standard.

Kohli R. (2015), “Financing Strategies and Shareholders’ Risk in Cross Border Acquisitions in India”, International Journal of Commerce and Management, Emerald. Vol. 25, No. 3, pp. 294-308.
 
Mohil, S., Patro, A. and Nayyar, R. (2019), "Options availability effect on informed trading in M&As", Managerial Finance, Vol. 45, No. 10/11, pp. 1382-1397. ABDC, B category; Scopus; ESCI indexed, Emerald publications.

Mohil, S., Nayyar, R. and Patro, A. (2020), “When is informed trading more prevalent?—An examination of options trading around Indian M&A announcements”, Journal of Futures Market, Vol. 40, No. 6, pp. 1011-1029.

Presented Research Paper titled “Motivations for Mergers and Acquisition” at PCMA-Desh Bhagat in UGC Sponsored National Seminar held on July 31^st, 2005.

Presented Research Paper titled “Knowledge Management Practices in Indian Companies: A Case of Wipro Technologies” at Shri Mata Vaishno Devi University in UGC Sponsored National Seminar held on January 6^th-7^th, 2007.

Presented Research Paper titled “Earnouts: A Risk Mitigating Strategy in Cross Border Mergers and Acquisitions” at Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore in conference organized by Strategic Management Forum on May 27^th-29^th, 2009.

Presented Research Paper titled “Building Entrepreneurship at the Bottom of the Pyramid” at Punjabi University, Patiala in UGC Sponsored National Seminar held on November 27^th-28^th, 2009.

Presented Research Paper titled “Changing Corporate Strategies in Response to Global Economic Crises in Emerging Markets with Special References to India”, at VII AIB-India International Conference organized by IILM Graduate School of Management, Greater Noida on December 17^th-19^th, 2009.

Presented Research Paper titled “Acquiring Company Wealth Gains in Cross Border Acquisitions in India” at Indian Institute of Management, Noida in conference organized by Strategic Management Forum on May 27^th-29^th, 2010.

Presented Research Paper titled “Impact of Earnout Offers on Acquiring Company Wealth Gains in India” in Indian Finance Conference organized by Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore in December, 2011

Presented Research Paper titled “Analyzing the Long Run Performance of Cross Border Acquisitions in India”, International conference on Global Strategies for an Emergent India organized by Indian Institute of Management, Kozhikode in December, 2012

Presented Research Paper titled “Analyzing the likelihood of Earnout Offers in India”, in Indian Finance Conference organized by Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad in December, 2013

Presented Research Paper titled “Do Target Shareholders Gain in Cross Border Acquisitions: An Indian Experience” in Pan IIM World Management Conference, held at Indian Institute of Management, Kozhikode in November, 2014

Presented Research Paper titled “Mode of payment and risk in cross border acquisitions in India” in Pan IIM World Management Conference, held at Indian Institute of Management, Indore in December, 2015

Presented Research Paper titled “Sun Pharma and Ranbaxy Merger: To go bigger than the market and better than the past” in National Conference on Emerging Themes in Strategy, held at MDI Gurgaon in February, 2016

Presented research paper titled “Impact of corporate governance structure on insider trading around M&A announcements of optioned Indian acquirers” PAN IIT International Management Conference, Nov 30 – Dec 02, 2018 at IIT Roorkee, Uttrakhand, India.

Presented research paper titled ‘“Insider trading in optioned acquirers under matching date condition: an Indian perspective” at World Finance & Banking Symposium – Taichung, Taiwan, December 13th-14th, 2018 at Asia University, Taichung.

Presented research paper titled 'Options market and informed trading in M&As: An empirical examination of Indian acquiring companies”, at Sixth Pan IIM World Management Conference, December 13-15, 2018 at IIM, Bangalore. Received the best paper award.

Presented Research Paper titled “Diminishing returns to acquiring companies in cross border acquisitions in India” at India and China: Economic, Social and Cultural Perspective, December 17-18, 2018 at IMI New Delhi, India. Received the best paper award.

Presented Research Paper titled 'Does M&A announcement and options expiry alignment affect insider trading: Analysis of Indian acquiring companies', at India Finance Conference, during December 20-22, 2018 at IIM, Calcutta. 

Presented Research Paper titled ‘The Information Value of Altman Model in Predicting Bankruptcies: Empirical Evidence from the US Post the Subprime’, at INDAM- Jointly organized by IIM Trichy and Indian Academy of Management during January 1-4, 2020

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