DR. ATIF GHAYAS

Experienced Assistant Professor of Finance with a Ph.D., specializing in UG/PG finance education, research, and curriculum development. Seeking an academic role to leverage expertise in financial analysis, FinTech, and research publications in Scopus-indexed journals

Executive Programme on FinTech, Banking, and Applied Risk Management, IIM Lucknow

• AI-based hybrid models for loan risk prediction in the banking sector – Big Data Mining and Analytics (2023, Scopus, Q1).
• Investigating the effects of institutional trust on financial behavior among banking consumers in India: A moderation mediation approach – International Journal of Business Innovation and Research (Accepted, Scopus).
• Examining Weekly Anomalies on Daily Returns and Volatility of Spot and Future Indices of the Johannesburg Stock Exchange – International Journal of Business Excellence (Accepted, Scopus/ABDC).
• Performance of Conventional and Sustainable Index in Pre and During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Comparative Analysis – Indian Journal of Finance (2023, Scopus).
• Profitability of Indian Scheduled Commercial Banks: A Comparative Evaluation – Specialusis Ugdymas (2022, Scopus).
• The Determinants of Capital Structure in Indian firms: Does industry matter? – International Journal of Business Excellence (Accepted).
• Impediments to Public-Private Partnership Projects in the Aftermath of Covid-19 Pandemic – Parikalpana, KIIT Journal of Management (2022, UGC CARE).
• Foreign institutional investors and market return volatility: Evidence from symmetric and asymmetric models – Journal of Statistics and Management Systems (2022, ABDC).
• Analysis of start-up valuation methods - Understanding the Investor's perspective – IGI Global Publishers (Accepted).
• Study on the Determinants of Capital Structure: Evidence from India – IUP Journal of Applied Finance (2020).
• Valuation of Negative Earning Firms, Valuation Challenges, and Solutions in Contemporary Businesses – IGI Global (2020).
• Impact of Capital Structure on Profitability: An Empirical Analysis of Listed Firms in India – Asian Journal of Managerial Science (2018).
• The Relationship between Capital Structure and Profitability: Empirical Evidence from Listed Indian Banks – ZENITH (2018).
• Foreign institutional investors: its impact on Indian stock market volatility – ZENITH (2018).

• "Determinants of Capital Structure: Evidence from India" – Presented at the International Conference “ASBIC-2021” held at Asian School of Business, Noida (6th February 2021, Best Paper Award).
• "Causal Relationship between Foreign Institutional Flows and Stock Market Returns in India" – Presented at the Sixth Biennial Conference of the Indian Academy of Management, held at Indian Institute of Management, Tiruchirappalli (2nd – 4th January 2020).
• "A Study of Microfinance as a Tool for Financial Inclusion in Rural India" – Presented at the International Conference on Rural Development-Prospects and Challenges, held at Royal University of Bhutan, Bhutan (3rd-4th June 2016).
• Finance Research Workshop – Organized by The Financial Research and Trading Laboratory (Finance Lab), held at Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta (18th-19th November 2016).

Served as the Convener of the International Conference on Latest Trends in Business Management: Innovation, Technology and Sustainability (ICLTBM-ITS) 2024 organized by the GITAM School of Business, Bengaluru on 15th and 16th March 2024.