Akanksha Jalan

Teaching

• Management Accounting and Decision Making
• Principles of Financial Accounting
• Advanced Financial Accounting
• Financial Reporting and Analysis
• Corporate Finance and Corporate Governance
• External Auditing

Qualifications

• PhD, Finance and Control, Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore (2014)
• Chartered Accountancy, Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (2009)
• M.Com, Kanpur University (2009)
• B.Com, Kanpur University (2007)

Work Experience

Academic

• Programme Director, MSc in International Accounting, Management Control and Auditing, Rennes School of Business (January 2019 – Present)
• Assistant Professor, Finance and Accounting Academic Area, Rennes School of Business (September 2017 – Present)

Other Academic role

• Research Associate and Manager, Centre for Capital Markets and Risk Management (CCMRM), Indian Institute of Management Bangalore (June 2015 – August 2017)
• Adjunct faculty for Management Accounting at the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore (January- February 2017)
• Adjunct faculty for Principles of Accounting (MBA) and Management Accounting and Decision Making (Executive MBA) at Woxsen School of Business (October – December 2015)
• Taught preparatory courses in Financial Reporting and Analysis for Executive MBA (February – March 2016, 2017) and Introduction to Financial Accounting for MBA (May – June 2015)
• Taught Introduction to Accounting Standards to Chartered Accountancy students (February – March 2010)

Research interests

• Financial reporting and quality
• Corporate governance
• Corporate Social Responsibility
• Corporate misbehaviour, particularly corporate tax aggressiveness

Honours and awards

• Paper titled ‘Women on Audit Committees and the relationship between Related Party Transactions and Earnings Management: Evidence from India’ selected for funding under the NSE-IGIDR Corporate Governance initiative in 2016.
• Paper titled ‘Debt, Bankruptcy Risk, and Corporate Tax Sheltering’ accepted under the Commissioned Research Initiative of the National Stock Exchange in 2014.
• Secured All India 21st Rank in Chartered Accountancy Final examinations held in June 2009.
• Awarded two gold medals for securing highest marks in M.Com examinations held by Kanpur University in March 2009.

Intellectual contributions

Refereed articles – Discipline-Based Scholarship

• Jalan, A., Matkovskyy, R. (2023) Systemic risks in the cryptocurrency market: Evidence from the FTX collapse. Finance research letters, Volume 53, May 2023, 103670
• Akanksha Jalan, Roman Matkovskyy, Andrew Urquhart, Larisa Yarovaya (2023) The role of interpersonal trust in cryptocurrency adoption. Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions and Money, Volume 83, March 2023, 101715
• Akanksha Jalan, Roman Matkovskyy, Andrew Urquhart (2022) Demand elasticities of Bitcoin and Ethereum, Economics Letters, Volume 220, November 2022, 110877
• Larisa Yarovaya, Roman Matkovsky, Akanksha Jalan (2022) The COVID-19 black swan crisis: Reaction and recovery of various financial markets. Research in International Business and Finance, Volume 59, 2022, 101521
• Matkovskyy, R., Jalan, A., Dowling, M., Bouraoui, T. (2021) From bottom ten to top ten: the role of cryptocurrencies in enhancing portfolio return of poorly performing stocks. Finance Research Letters, Volume 38, January 2021, 101405
• Matkovskyy Roman and Jalan Akanksha (2020) Can Bitcoin be an inflation hedge? Evidence from a quantile-on-quantile model. Revue Economique (Economic Review), Volume 2021/07, pp. 1021-1041
• Jalan, A., Matkovskyy, R., Aziz, S.. (2021) The Bitcoin options market: A first look at pricing and risk. Applied Economics, Volume 53, Issue 17, pp. 2026-2041
• Jalan, A., Matkovskyy, R., Urquhart, A. (2021) What effect did the introduction of Bitcoin futures have on the Bitcoin spot market? The European Journal of Finance, Volume 27 issue 13, pp. 1251-1281
• Yarovaya, L., Matkovskyy Roman, Jalan Akanksha (2021). The effects of a “black swan” event (COVID-19) on herding behavior in cryptocurrency markets. Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions and Money, Volume 75, 101321
• Jalan, A., Matkovskyy, R., Poti, V., 2021, Shall the winning last? A study of recent bubbles and persistence. Finance Research Letters 102162 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.frl.2021.102162
• Akanksha Jalan, Roman Matkovskyy, Larisa Yarovaya (2021) “Shiny” crypto assets: A systemic look at gold-backed cryptocurrencies during the COVID-19 pandemic, International Review of Financial Analysis, Volume 78, Nov 2021, 101958
• Aziz, S., Jalan, A., Matkovskyy, R. and Bouraoui, T. (2021) Does Shariah compliance affect investor behaviour in the COVID-19 times: Evidence from herding in the global energy market. Applied Economics https://doi.org/10.1080/00036846.2021.1999384
• Matkovskyy, R., Jalan, A., Dowling, M. (2020) Effects of economic policy uncertainty shocks on the interdependence between Bitcoin and traditional financial markets. Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance 77, 150-155.
• Akanksha Jalan, S.G. Badrinath and Bakr Al-Gamrh (2020) Women on audit committees and the relationship between related party transactions and earnings management. Strategic Change, Volume 29, Issue 3, pp.389–406
• Bakr Al-Gamrh; Redhwan Al-Dhamari; Akanksha Jalan; Asghar Ashfar Jahanshahi (2020) The impact of board independence and foreign ownership on financial and social performance of firms: Evidence from the UAE. Journal of Applied Accounting Research, Vol. 21 No. 2, pp. 201-229.
• Matkovskyy, R., Jalan, A. (2019) From financial markets to Bitcoin markets: A fresh look at the contagion effect. Finance Research Letters, Vol. 31 (2019), pp. 93-97
• Matkovskyy, R., Jalan, A., Dowling, M. (2020) Effects of economic policy uncertainty shocks on the interdependence between Bitcoin and traditional financial markets. Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.qref.2020.02.004Refereed proceedings – Discipline-Based Scholarship
• Matkovskyy, R., Jalan, A., Dowling, M., Bouraoui, T. (2019) From bottom ten to top ten: the role of cryptocurrencies in enhancing portfolio return of poorly performing stocks. Finance Research Letters, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.frl.2019.101405
• Matkovskyy, R., Jalan, A. (2019) From financial markets to Bitcoin markets: A fresh look at the contagion effect. Finance Research Letters, Vol. 31 (2019), pp. 93-97
• Matkovskyy, Roman and Jalan, Akanksha (2019). From Financial Markets to Bitcoin Markets: A Fresh Look at the Contagion Effect. Finance Research Letters
• Jalan A. and Vaidyanathan R., 2017 “Tax Havens: Conduits for Corporate Tax Malfeasance”, Journal of Financial Regulation and Compliance, 25 (1)

Refereed Proceedings Discipline-Based Scholarship

• Tax Havens: Conduits for Corporate Tax Malfeasance, with Prof. R. Vaidyanathan, Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore – Presented at the Academy of International Business (AIB) at Bangalore in June, 2015 – Presented at the Asia-Pacific Risk and Insurance Association (New York), July 2013 (by co-author)

Presentations of Refereed Papers

International

• Jalan, A., Matkovskyy, R. The Role of Trust, Past Experience, Overconfidence, and Expectations in future Cryptocurrency holdings. International Conference in Finance, Banking and Accounting, Montpellier, France, 8-9 September 2023
• Jalan, A., Matkovskyy, R. The Impact of Experience and Overconfidence on Cryptocurrency Ownership. Cryptocurrency research conference 2023, Monaco, 28-29 August 2023
• Ahmad Ashaal, Saqib Aziz, Jad Bazih, Akanksha Jalan. Financing Decisions and Innovation in SMEs: The Moderating Role of Trust. FEBS 2023 Greece, Chania, Greece, 1-4 June 2023
• Akanksha Jalan, Roman Matkovskyy, Andrew Urquhart. Demand elasticities of Bitcoin and Ethereum. Cardiff Fintech Conference 2022, Cardiff, UK, 10-14 October 2022
• Akanksha Jalan, Roman Matkovskyy, Andrew Urquhart, Larisa Yarovaya. The role of interpersonal trust in cryptocurrency adoption. Cryptocurrency Research Conference, Durham, UK, 21-24 September 2022
• Matkovskyy, R., Jalan, A. Effects of economic policy uncertainty shocks on the interdependence between cryptocurrency and traditional financial markets. In: Cryptocurrency Research Conference, Southampton, United Kingdom, June 2019
• Jalan, Akanksha, Jayant R. Kale, Costanza Meneghetti. Debt, Bankruptcy Risk, and Corporate Tax Aggressiveness. In: 7th Spring Conference of the Multinational Finance Society, Chania, Greece, April 2019