Journal Articles

• Bindal, S., Haque, I., Saurabh, S. (2024), "Foreign Institutional Investors, Controlling Shareholders, and Market Timing: Evidence from India" Review of Corporate Finance (forthcoming).

• Kumar, D., Phani, B. V., Chilamkurti, N., Saurabh, S., Ratten, V. (2024), "A Taxonomy of Blockchain Technology Application and Adoption in SMEs", Entrepreneurial Business and Economics Review (forthcoming).

• Kumar, D., Phani, B. V., Chilamkurti, N., Saurabh, S., Ratten, V. (2023), "Filling the SME credit gap: a systematic review of blockchain-based SME finance literature", Journal of Trade Science.

• Arora, P., Saurabh, S. (2022), “Predicting distress: a post Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code 2016 analysis”, Journal of Economics and Finance, Vol. 46 No. 3, pp. 604-622.

• Dixit, B.K., Gupta, N. and Saurabh, S. (2020), "Dividend policy in India: reconciling theory and evidence", Managerial Finance, Vol. 46 No. 11, pp. 1437-1453.

Book Chapter

• Dhanagare, A., Saurabh, S., Roy, P. (2023), "Consumer Investment Behavior", in "A Research Agenda for Consumer Financial Behavior", Edward Elgar Publishing.

• Kumar, D., Phani, B. V., Saurabh, S. (2023), "Crisis Management and Innovation in Indian Manufacturing MSMEs Amidst COVID-19 Pandemic", in "Entrepreneurship Research", Springer Publishing.

• Kumar, D., Phani, B. V., Saurabh, S. (2023), "Integrated Blockchain architecture for end-to-end Receivables Management of Indian MSMEs", in "Applications of Emerging Technologies and AI/ML Algorithms", Springer Publishing.

Case Study

• Saurabh, S., Roy, P. (2022), “Signs of Financial Distress at Jet Airways: The Way Forward”, AIMA India Case Research Centre.

• Predicting Financially Constrained Firms Using Text Data" (with Jaydeep Amrutbhai Sarvakar), 3rd International Business Analytics Conference (BAC), (Mumbai, 2023).

• Bankruptcy Prediction Using Text-Based Sentiment Analysis on Indian Firms" (with Saurabh Kumar Gupta), 3rd International Business Analytics Conference (BAC), (Mumbai, 2023).

• “Crisis Management and Innovation in Indian Manufacturing MSMEs Amidst COVID- 19 pandemic’ (with Deepak Kumar and B V Phani), International Conference on ‘Shaping the Future of Management Education for Sustainable Emerging Economies (SFME), (2022)

• “Does the ESG Disclosure during uncertain environment offer substantial opportunities in the Indian Stock Market?” (with Preeti Roy), World Finance and Banking Symposium (WFBS), (2022)

• “Does the ESG Disclosure during uncertain environment offer substantial opportunities in the Indian Stock Market?” (with Preeti Roy), India Finance Conference (IFC), (2022)

• “Does the ESG Disclosure during uncertain environment offer substantial opportunities in the Indian Stock Market?” (with Preeti Roy), International Conference on Sustainable Goals (ICSG), (2022)

• “ESG Disclosure and Firm Risk: A Case of India’s Environmentally Sensitive Sector” (with Preeti Roy), 12th Conference on Excellence in Research and Education (CERE), (2022)

• “Signs of Financial Distress at Jet Airways – The Way Forward” (with Preeti Roy), 2nd AIMA-ICRC Case Writing Competition and Conference (CWCC), (2022)

• “Non-financial Disclosure and Firm Risk: A Case of India’s Environmentally Sensitive Sector” (with Preeti Roy), International Conference on Banking and Finance (ICBF), (2022)*

• “Predicting Distress: Post Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code (2016) Analysis” (with Paras Arora), Academy of Economics and Finance (AEF) Annual Conference, (2021)

• “Pricing Kernel Puzzle in the Indian Financial Market” (with Jay Gupta and Sachin Angural), Academy of Economics and Finance (AEF) Annual Conference, (2021)

• “Estimation of Risk Aversion and Risk Premium in India (with Jay Gupta and Sachin Angural)”, India Finance Conference (IFC), (Ahmedabad, 2019)

• “Dividend Policy in India: Reconciling Theory and Evidence” (with Bipin K. Dixit and Nilesh Gupta), India Finance Conference (IFC), (Ahmedabad, 2019)

• “Investor Sentiment and Open Market Repurchases” (with Joshy Jacob and Ajay Pandey), India Finance Conference (IFC), (Ahmedabad, 2019)

• “Foreign Institutional Investors, Controlling Shareholders and Market Timing: Evidence from India” (with Imran Haque and Shradha Bindal), Midwest Finance Association (MFA) Annual Meeting, (Chicago, 2017)*

• “Shareholder Tax Incentives and Dividend Policy: Evidence from India”, Academy of Economics and Finance (AEF) Annual Conference, (Charleston, 2017)

• “Market Irrationality and Share Repurchases” (with Joshy Jacob and Ajay Pandey),International Conference on Financial Markets and Corporate Finance (ICFMCF) , (Kharagpur, 2017)

• “Market Irrationality and Share Repurchases” (with Joshy Jacob and Ajay Pandey), International Conference on Advanced Data Analysis, Business Analytics and Intelligence (ICADABAI), (Ahmedabad, 2017)

• “Foreign Institutional Investors, Controlling Shareholders and Market Timing:
  Evidence from India” (with Imran Haque and Shradha Bindal), India Finance Conference (IFC), (Ahmedabad, 2016)

• “Foreign Institutional Investors, Controlling Shareholders and Market Timing: Evidence from India” (with Imran Haque and Shradha Bindal), Emerging Markets Finance Conference (EMFC), (Mumbai, 2016)*

• Financial Management, Mergers and Acquisitions, Corporate Finance, Cost Accounting, Financial Derivatives, Financial Engineering

• 'Excellence-in-Teaching Award' (2023), IIT Kanpur

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• 'Best Paper Award' at International Conference on Sustainable Goals (ICSG) 2022

• 'Excellence Award' at 2nd AIMA-ICRC Case Writing Competition and Conference 2022

• 'Senate Citation' for Teaching Excellence at IIT Kanpur for some of the courses taught in the recent years

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