Prantik Ray

*Experience Detail *

• XLRI, Jamshedpur Full-Time Faculty June, 2007- till date
• Army Institute of Management, Kolkata Head of MBA Dept. April, 2003-May, 2007
• FORE School of Management, New Delhi Programme Director (Evening Programees) & Assistant Professor June, 2001-March, 2003
• Institute of Rural Management, Anand Assistant Professor February, 1999-June, 2001
• Institute of Chartered Financial Analysts of India, Hyderabad Faculty Associate July, 1997-January, 1999
• The Economic Times, New Delhi Business Journalist February, 1994-March, 1995

Area of RESEARCH INTERESTS

• Mergers and Acquisitions
• Structured Finance & Financial Engineering
• Investment & Portfolio Management
• International Finance & Derivatives
• Corporate Finance
• Applied Macroeconomics

Journal Articles-Refereed

• Weather Derivatives-- A Need for Indian Farmers (Indian Journal for Banking, Risk and Insurance, Vol 4 Issue 1, March 2016, pp 19-25).
• Equity Linked Notes in India-A Primer (Global Journal for Research Analysis, Vol 4, April, 2015, pp 48-55)
• Weather Derivatives- A Class above Weather Insurance (Published in Financial Derivatives Market and Applications ed. Velmurugan PS, P. Palanichamy and Malabika Rao, chapter no. 2, pp.18-29, 2012).
• Commodity Futures and Indian Farmers: Myth or Reality (Published in Indian Commodity Market: Derivative and Risk Management, ed. Velmurugan, Palanichamy and Shunmugam, Chapter 3, pp50-65).
• A Case on Kingfisher- Air Deccan Merger: The Marriage of Convenience (Published in Indian Journal of Marketing, Volume 42, Number 1, January 2012)
• Microfinance Securitization in India Rating Anomalies (Conference Proceedings of Academy of Business Research Conference in Atlantic City, New Jersey during 13-15th September, 2011)
• Hidden Risk in Microfinance Securitization, A Case Study in India (Conference Proceedings of Annual Paris Conference on Money and Finance in Paris during 14-15th July, 2011)
• MFI Securitization in India, Need for Proper Risk Assessment (Conference Proceedings of Annual Accounting and Finance Conference in Singapore during 23-24th May, 2011)
• Structured Finance for the MFI Sector--Need for Proper Risk Assessment (Presented and Published in the Conference Proceedings of International Conference on Financial Innovation organised by University of Connecticut and MDI, Gurgaon during 7-9, January, 2011
• Weather Derivatives, A Class Above Weather Insurance (Published in the Conference Proceedings of International Conference on Financial Derivatives conducted by MCX, India and Pondicherry University during 17-19th December , 2010
• Commodities & Derivatives & Indian Farmers- Issues & Concerns-Paryavarthan (November, 2009)
• Commodity Derivatives and Indian Farmers, Myths and Realities-National Workshop on Commodity Derivatives organized by MCX and Pondicherry University, 11-12, September, 2009
• Forecasting Mutual Fund NAV using Neural Network- SSRN Network (2004).
• Neural Network Models for Forecasting Mutual Fund Net Asset Value, Paper presented in 8th Annual Capital Market Conference, 2004.
• Indian Stock Prices and Macroeconomic Influence: An Empirical Investigation using Artificial Neural Network- Operational Research and Its Applications: Recent Trends ed. M. R. Rao and M. C. Puri (Allied Publishers, 2004)
• Forecasting Mutual Fund Net Asset Value - A Neural Network Approach - AIM Working Paper No.7, May, 2004.
• What Moves Indian Stock Market: A Study on the Linkage with the Real Economy in the Post-Reform Era---- Paper presented at the 6th Annual Conference on Money and Finance, 2004.
• Indian Stock Prices and Macroeconomic Variables: An Empirical Investigation Using Artificial Neural Network - APORS Conference Proceedings, 2003.
• Reflection on Deflation--Japans Monetary Paradox, IRMA Working Paper No. 146
• Fiscal Responsibility of Government - Network (IRMA), Vol 6 No. 1
• Issues in Co-operative Reform - Network (IRMA), Vol 6 No. 3