Grade "A+" Accredited by NAAC with a CGPA of 3.46
Placements
Grade "A+" Accredited by NAAC with a CGPA of 3.46
Placements

Amit Kumar, M.Com.

Areas of Expertise

  • Distribution Decision Signals
  • Taxation and Earnings Management
  • Statistics with SPSS, Eviews and Stata
  • Financial Econometrics
  • Investment Analysis and Portfolio Management
Detailed Resume

Amit Kumar, M.Com.

Assistant Professor

Nourish the seed of learning, as a drive to learn instils knowledge, and knowledge is the sole path to success

Biography

Taxation and Corporate Finance are two fields gradually growing towards impacting our lives more and more as the world progresses. Taxation focuses on understanding the revenue system of an economy and the regulatory requirements for individuals while Corporate Finance is guiding every financial decision from personal budgeting to investment decisions of companies and governments. Currently, Mr. Amit has been focussing his research on the discovery of real signals from the payout policy of firms. He is examining the extent of inter linkages between the developing and developed financial markets by testing the presence of market integration. He has been faculty for subjects such as taxation, corporate finance, Investment analysis and portfolio management, international finance, financial software packages, transfer pricing and international business. Starting his teaching career at Ramjas College, he later joined Shri Ram College of Commerce before starting to teach at Shaheed Sukhdev College of Business Studies.

Education

  • Pursuing PhD, Finance, FMS, University of Delhi, India
  • M.Com, University of Delhi, India

Publications

  • Impact of Corporate Governance on Earning Management: Large Sample Evidence from India
  • Debt Financing and Personal Tax: An Empirical Study of Indian Inc
  • Impact of CSR Activities on the Financial Performance of Firms
  • The Trade-off between Behavioral Economics and Financial Literacy
  • Relationship between FDI Inflows and Economic Growth: A Study of Select Asian Countries
  • Sehrawat, N. K., Kumar, A., Lohia, N., Bansal, S., & Agarwal, T. (2019). Impact of corporate governance on earnings management: large sample evidence from India. Asian Economic and Financial Review, 9(12), 1335.
  • Sehrawat, N., Kumar, A., Nigam, N. K., Singh, K., & Goyal, K. (2020). Test of capital market integration using Fama-French three-factor model: Empirical evidence from India. Investment Management & Financial Innovations, 17(2), 113.
  • Sehrawat, N. K., Singh, S., & Kumar, A. (2020). Does corporate governance affect financial performance of firms? A large sample evidence from India. Business Strategy & Development, 3(4), 615-625.
  • Garg, P., Singh, S., Chamola, P., Kumar, A., & Paliwal, M. (2023). Elucidating the linkage between advertisements embedded with emotional appeals and the brand relationship quality during the COVID pandemic. Journal of Marketing Communications, 1-25.
  • Sumanjeet, Kumar, A., Paliwal, M., & Vijaykumar, A. (2024). India’s Policy Bailouts from the COVID-19 Economic Crisis: Evolution of Monetary and Fiscal Policies Since the Pandemic. Emerging Economy Studies, 23949015241235040.
  • Kumar, A. & Sinha, P. (2024). Changing dividend payout behavior and predicting dividend policy in emerging markets: Evidence from India. Investment Management and Financial Innovations, 21(1), 259-274. doi:10.21511/imfi.21(1).2024.20
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