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Vishwanathan Iyer

Senior Associate Professor and Director of Accreditation

Area of Expertise: Finance & Accounting

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Vishwanathan Iyer is a Senior Associate Professor in the area of Finance & Accounting, and the Director of Accreditation at Great Lakes Institute of Management, Chennai. Prior to this, he was the Academic Dean at TAPMI and had also held various leadership roles over the last ten years. He has an overall experience of twenty years of teaching and research across top business schools in India and about three years of professional practice as Chartered Accountant.

His areas of teaching include Accounting, Fixed Income, Quantitative Asset Management, Corporate Finance and Financial Econometrics. His research interests are Risk Management, Earnings Management and Psycholinguistics. He has conducted various in-company and on-campus training programs for various corporates in the areas of Finance for non-finance managers, Strategic Cost management and Financial Modelling. Further, he has conducted various faculty training programs in Case pedagogy for Accounting courses, Management Games as a Pedagogy and Financial Econometrics.

He was a Visiting Scholar at the McCallum Graduate School of Business, Bentley University, Boston. He holds a Masters’ Degree in Commerce, professional qualification of Chartered Accountancy and a PhD in the area of Finance.

He has an avid interest in Vedanta and is an invited speaker on the same. He is in the process of bringing out a series of monologues & articles to bring to fore the lessons from Indic philosophy to the world of management.

Peer Reviewed Publications

  • “Employee centric discussions and Economic Context: Evidence form Chairman Speeches”, F1000Research [Jointly with Vagisha, Col P S James], forthcoming [SCOPUS – Quartile 1]
  • “Institutional Ownership and Earnings Management – Evidence from India”, Cogent Economics and Finance, (2021) Vol 9 (1) [Jointly with Srikanth Potharla and Kaushik Bhattacharjee] [ABDC B]
  • “Stringent road safety laws – Need of the hour to stop the homicides on Indian roads. A regulatory perspective”, Medico-Legal Update, (2021) [Jointly with Sudeep Kumar] [SCOPUS]
  • “Can Indian highways be transformed from killer ways to safe ways? Dire need for a multi-pronged Government strategy, International Journal of Management, (2020) [Jointly with Sudeep Kumar] [SCOPUS]
  • “Making-up during data analysis – The Performance Measurement system in Karnataka”, Public Administration Quarterly, (2019) Vol 42 (1) [Jointly with Dayashankar Maurya, Kedar Joshi, Varsha Khandker and Vidya Pratap] [ABDC A]
  • “Transmission of Volatility across Asia-Pacific markets: Is there a pattern?”, IIM Kozhikode Society and Management Review, (2017) (Jointly with Amarnath Mitra) [ABDC C]
  • “Characterizing the Volatility transmission across International Stock Markets”, Theoretical Economic Letters, (2015) (Jointly with Amarnath Mitra and Anto Joseph) [ABDC B]
  • “Insider Trading, Market Efficiency and Regulation – A Literature Review”, The Review of Finance and Banking, (2014) 6(1): 07-14 (Jointly with Yogesh Kumar and Chakrapani Chaturvedula)
  • “Price Discovery and Convergence in the Indian Commodities Market”, Indian Growth and Development Review (Emerald Group), (2010) 3 (1): 53-61 (Jointly with Archana Pillai) [ABDC B]
  • “Spectral Analysis: Time Series Analysis in Frequency Domain”, The IUP Journal of Applied Economics, (2009), VIII (5&6): 83-101 (Jointly with Kaushik Chowdhury) [ABDC C]
  • “Weather: A Determinant of Stock Market Returns”, The IUP Journal of Behavioral Finance, (2007) 3(1): 48 – 57 (Jointly with Shikha Poddar & Rajiv Daga)
  • “Ownership Structure and Financial Performance- A Study of Chemical Industry in India”, The IUP Journal of Industrial Economics, (2004) 1(3): 7-20 (Jointly with Archana Pillai)

Book Chapters / Conference Proceedings

  • “Global Transmission of Volatility: An Empirical Investigation”, Advances in Management and Technology: Mapping Strengths with Opportunities, McGraw Hill Education (India) Pvt. Ltd, (2015) pp 126-143 (Jointly with Amarnath Mitra) [ISBN-13: 978-93-392-2075-4]
  • “Do Transmission of Volatility across International markets follow pattern?”, Evidence Based Management, Excellent Publishing House (2015) pp 11-20 (Jointly with Amarnath Mitra) [ISBN: 978-93-84935-18-4]
  • “Economic Reforms and the rural poverty scenario in India”, chapter 4 in Poverty – Issues in Economic Development, ICFAI Books (2004) pp 135-147 (Jointly with Archana Pillai)

Articles in Popular Press & Professional Magazine

  • “Remembering T.A Pai’s contribution to India’s banking sector”, Hindu Business Line, Jan 17, 2022
  • “Management Education can no longer be India centric”, Career 360, Dec 11, 2020
  • “Futuristic B-School education in a VUCA world”, Education Times, Jul 27, 2020
  • “NIRF 2020 shows b-schools clambering into top 40 ranks”, BL on Campus, Jun 20, 2020
  • “B-School Selection: What is Accreditation and why is it important while choosing a B-School”, Education Today (India Today), Feb 10, 2020
  • “Fiscal Policy in Industrial Nations”, Treasury Management, (2004) 11: 61-62 (Jointly with Archana Pillai)
  • “Debt Monetization”, Treasury Management, (2004) 10: 63-65 (Jointly with Archana Pillai)
  • “The Term Structure of credit spreads in project finance”, Treasury Management, (2004) 9: 71-73 (Jointly with Archana Pillai)
  • “Dollar-Euro Exchange Rate Dynamics: How Traditional Structural Models Fail to Capture their Interrelationship”, Treasury Management, (2004) 8: 78-79 (Jointly with Archana Pillai)
  • “Is Deflation Really a Threat in the Future?”, Treasury Management, (2004) 7: 75-77 (Jointly with Archana Pillai)

International Conferences held in India & Outside

  • Paper on “Transmission of Volatility across Asia-Pacific stock markets: Is there a pattern?” at the 52nd Annual Conference of the Indian Econometric Society (TIES) organized by IIM Kozhikode (presented by the co-author Prof. Amarnath Mitra, IBS Hyderabad) (Jan 4-6, 2016)
  • “Relationships between International Stock Markets – A Network Perspective”, 6th International Conference on Decision Sciences for Performance Excellence organized by the Indian Subcontinent Region of Decision Sciences Institute (DSI) at IBS Hyderabad, (Jointly with Amarnath Mitra), Dec 2012
  • “A Fuzzy Portfolio Selection technique using Semi-Variance”, 6th International Conference on Decision Sciences for Performance Excellence organized by the Decision Sciences Institute at IBS Hyderabad, (Jointly with Amarnath Mitra), Dec 2012
  • “Evaluating Long-memory effects of Indian stock returns: An application of ARFIMA class models”, International Finance Conference organized by IIM Calcutta, (Jointly with Jigyasu Gaur), Jan 2011
  • “Real Exchange rates – Entropy in misalignments”, International Conference on Business & Finance by IBS Hyderabad and Bentley College, USA, Jan 2008
  • “Volatility Index for Nifty – A comparison of VIX, Extreme Value Estimators and GARCH class models”, International Conference on Business by IBS Hyderabad and Bentley College, USA, Jan 2008
  • “Hedge Ratio Estimation and Hedging Effectiveness of Stock and Index Futures in India”, Conference by Asia Pacific Association of Derivatives, MDI Gurgaon, June 19 – 22, 2007.
  • “Integrating Ethics & Social responsibility in the Investment Analysis & Portfolio Management Course”, Global Business Ethics Symposium conducted by State Street Corporation & Bentley College, MA, USA from May 22 – 26, 2006
  • “Foreign Direct Investments and Economic Growth – Econometric Evidence from India”, Research on India’s Financial System (Organized by NSE and ICICI), July 17-18, 2004, Goa Institute of Management, Goa, India – One of Best 15 Invited Papers (jointly with Archana Pillai)
  • “Economic Growth and Rural Poverty Scenario in India”, 40th Indian Econometric Conference, February 13-14, 2004, Institute for Social and Economic Change, Bangalore, India. (Jointly with Archana Pillai)
  • “Ownership Structure and Financial Performance – A study of Chemical Industry in India”, First AIMS International Conference on Management (AIMSiCOM), December 28-30, 2003, IIM Bangalore, India. – Best Paper Award (Jointly with Archana Pillai)
  • “Derivatives: Options & Futures”, Western India C.A Students Sub-Regional Conference, December 2-3, 2001, Nagpur, India – Best Paper Award (Jointly with Santosh Karandikar)

Thesis, Supervision / Co-Supervision

  • Mr. Lithin B M (2021) – “Corporate Credit Spreads and Liquidity: Evidence from the Indian Corporate Bond Market”
  • Ms. Vagisha (2016) – “Language, Inspiration and Performance: Evidence from Corporate Narratives”, MAHE
  • Mr. Sudeep Kumar (2015) – “Risk Exposure based Insurance Pricing – A study of Motor Car Insurance in India”, MAHE

Member, Doctoral Advisory Committee (DAC)

  • Ms. Savitha Heggede (2016) – “Role of Audit Committee and Real Earnings Management”, MAHE
  • Mr. Sudheer Reddy (2014) – “Gender Diversity in Corporate Boards and Firm Decisions”, MAHE
  • Mr. Amarnath Mitra (2012) – “Volatility transmission across International Markets”, IFHE, Hyderabad
  • Mr. Anto Joseph (2011) – “Price Discovery & Efficiency in the Indian Commodities market”, IFHE, Hyderabad
  • Mr. Yogesh Chauhan (2010) – “Information content of insider trading – Evidence from the Indian market”, IFHE, Hyderabad
  • Ms. Vaishnavi Bhat (2009) - “The Cross Section of Expected Returns of Global Firms: The Role of Leverage, Liquidity and Idiosyncratic Risks”

Honors/Awards/Grants Received

  • Received Certificate of Appreciation from the Udupi District Administration for undertaking a consulting project on Evaluating SAKALA service implementation (Right to Services Act) and identifying poorly performing services under various levels of criticality
  • Received Research Grant of Rs. 25,000 from NCDEX Institute for Commodities Market and Research (NICR) in May 2009

Other Certifications / Training Programs Attended

  • ‘Global Colloquium on Participant Centered Learning’ (GLOCOLL), HBS Executive Education, Boston (July 2016) and Shanghai (Feb 2017)
  • ‘Faculty Certificate in Online Teaching’ conducted by GlobalNxt University (May 2016)
  • Attended three-day Workshop on Participation Centered Learning – The Art of Discussion Leadership, Prof V.G Narayanan, Chair – Accounting Area, Harvard Business School (Venue: IFMR Chennai)
  • IFRS Certification by The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (Sep 2010)
    • 100 hours of coursework followed by project submission & examination
  • Program on “Optimization Methods and its Financial Applications, High Frequency Finance” conducted by CARISMA (Brunel University, UK) and IIM Calcutta (March 2010)
    • Topics: Optimization using AMPL, Linear & Integer Programming, Stochastic Optimization Techniques and Risk Analysis, Using Simulation, Chance Constrained Programming and Robust Optimization, Asset Liability Management, Portfolio Optimization and Volatility Modeling, High Frequency Finance
  • Attended Summer School on Financial Econometrics at IGIDR, Mumbai (May 2004)

Associations

  • Cornell University
  • Chicago Booth
  • Skema Business School
  • Universite Bordeaux
  • IESEG
  • Frankfurt School of Finance and Management
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