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Faculty & Research

Faculty & Research

Balagopal Gopalakrishnan

Area

Primary Area : Finance and Accounting

Contact

Email : balagopalg@iima.ac.in

Phone : +91-79-7152 7508

Secretary : Pritesh Parmar

Phone : +91-79-7152 7973

Education

FRM, GARP

BE, ECE, NIT Surathkal

MBA, Finance, SP Jain Singapore/Dubai

PhD , (Finance & Accounting), IIMA

Teaching

PhD

  • Foundations of Finance
  • Empirical Methods in Corporate Finance 

PGPX 

  • Financial Reporting and Analysis 
  • Valuation of New Economy Firms (along with Joshy Jacob) 
  • Corporate Governance (along with Anish Sugathan)

PGP

  • Corporate Finance 
  • Banking and Financial Services (elective)

Research Area

Corporate Finance

Banking and financial intermediation

Gold consumption/investment of households and central banks

Academic Experience

Faculty (F&A), IIM Ahmedabad , Feb 2022 – present

Faculty (F&A), IIM Kozhikode, July 2019 – Feb 2022

Professional Experience

Commercial Bank International, UAE , (Apr 2013 – May 2015)

Fullerton Financial Holdings/Dunia Finance, UAE , (Dec 2009 – Apr 2013)

Infineon Technologies, Bangalore/Munich , (Jun 2006 – Dec 2008)

Articles

Product market shock, stakeholder relationships, and trade credit. The British Accounting Review, 56(6), 101458. (with Jagriti Srivastava and Rajesh Tharyan)

Consulting projects

Completed

  1. Insolvency and Bankruptcy Board of India (IBBI): Effectiveness of the resolution process: Firm outcomes in the post-IBC period (with Ram Mohan M P, Jan- Aug 2023)

  2. Multi Commodity Exchange (MCX): Study on Suspension of Commodity Derivative Contracts and Impact on Price Discovery (with Joshy Jacob, Dec’22-Apr’23)

  3. National Stock Exchange (NSE): Developing a framework for capital adequacy requirements of market intermediaries (2020 - 2021).

Awards & Honors

2023 - SRK distinguished PGPX faculty award at IIM Ahmedabad

2019 - Industrial Finance Corporation of India Award for Thesis Proposal at IIM Ahmedabad, 2018-19

2018 - Best paper award at the Asia-pacific Applied Economics Association Doctoral Conference in Changsha, China, January 2018, (jointly with Joshy Jacob and Ajay Pandey for paper titled “Lender moral hazard in state-owned banks: Evidence from an emerging economy”)

2018 - CFA Best Paper Award, India Finance Association Conference, December, 2018 (jointly with Joshy Jacob and Ajay Pandey for paper titled “Lender moral hazard in state-owned banks: Evidence from an emerging economy”).

Academic Experience

Faculty (F&A), IIM Ahmedabad , Feb 2022 – present

Faculty (F&A), IIM Kozhikode, July 2019 – Feb 2022

IIMA