Dr. Chandra's areas of research interest are corporate finance (behavioral corporate finance, asset pricing, risk management) and individual decision making under risk and uncertainty (personal finance, risk preferences, irrationality).
He teaches Corporate Finance and Cost & Management Accounting in the MBA program and Investment Management and Taxation of Financial Instruments in the Financial Engineering program at IIT Kharagpur. His current research focuses on the behavioral explanations of investment decision-making, from both individual and institutional perspectives, and how it affects the asset prices and market mechanism.
He has published several papers in journals of national and international repute, and op-ed articles in business dailies. He offers training and consultancy services in the areas of behavioral and personal finance, fintech, and strategic cost management. He serves on the Board of Governors of the Asia Pacific Risk and Insurance Association (APRIA).
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Applied Advanced Analytics Ghosh A., Chourasiya A. , Bansal L. , Chandra A. By Connectedness of Markets with Heterogeneous Agents and the Information Cascades 219-234 (2021)
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On Asymmetric Relationship of India Volatility Index (India VIX) with Stock Market Return and Risk Management Chandra A., Thenmozhi M. By DECISION 42 33-55 (2015)
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Computational Management Chandra A., Jadhao G. R. By Profits Are in the Eyes of the Beholder: Entropy-Based Volatility Indicators and Portfolio Rotation Strategies 69-95 (2021)
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Herd behaviour and asset pricing in the Indian stock market Chauhan Y., Ahmad N., Aggarwal V., Chandra A. By IIMB Management Review 32 143-152 (2020)
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Impact of ownership structure and dividend on firm performance and firm risk Rajverma A.K., Misra A.K., Mohapatra S., Chandra A. By Managerial Finance 45 1041-1061 (2019)
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Ownership Structure Influencing the Joint Determination of Dividend, Leverage and Cost of Capital Rajverma A.K., Arrawatia R., Misra A.K., Chandra A. By Cogent Economics and Finance 7 - (2019)
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Improving the Volatility Forecasts of GARCH Family Models with the Recurrent Neural Networks Sahoo A., Garg A. , Jangid J. , Chandra A. By IUP Journal of Computer Sciences 12 33-50 (2018)
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Application of VIX and Entropy Indicators for Portfolio Rotation Strategies Jadhao G., Chandra A. By Research in International Business and Finance 42 1367-1371 (2017)
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Behavioral Asset Pricing: Review and Synthesis Chandra A., Thenmozhi M. By Journal of Interdisciplinary Economics 29 1-31 (2017)
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Does Individual Heterogeneity Shape Retail Investor Behavior? Chandra A., Kantesha V. , Satya Nandini A. By International Journal of Social Economics 44 1-18 (2017)
Principal Investigator
- FinTech Primer
- Purvodaya - VGSoM B-School Festival
- RPA in Fintech
Ph. D. Students
Alina Mohanty
Area of Research: banking
Amit Kumar
Area of Research: High Performance Work Systems
Kumari Pushplata
Area of Research: Behavioral Finance
Manish Rajwar
Area of Research: Corporate Finance and Financial Markets
Manoranjan Panda
Area of Research: Corporate Finance and Rationality
Mehak Khanna
Area of Research: Financial Markets and Risk Management
Nitu Kumari
Area of Research: Technological Disruption and Talent Management
Prashant Sagar
Area of Research: Strategic Cost Management
Pushpanjali Raj
Area of Research: Behavioral Corporate Finance
Rohan Kumar Mishra
Area of Research: Behavioral Corporate Finance
Sudipta Majumdar
Area of Research: Behavioral Finance
