Ms. Ladkani has done her FPM from Indian Institute of Management, Kolkota.

Her doctoral
thesis dealt with the topic ‘Essays on Mergers and Acquisitions’. She holds a bachelor degree in
Commerce from Gujarat University and Post-Graduate Diploma in International Business with
Gold Medal for academic excellence from KJ Somaiya Institute of Management Studies and
Research, Mumbai.

She has received best paper award at IIM Ahmedabad’s Doctoral Colloquium 2013.

She has worked with Metlife India, HDFC Bank and ICFAI Business School prior to her FPM at
IIM, Kolkota.

She has presented papers at Midwest Finance Association’s Annual Meeting 2013 (Chicago),
13th Finance, Risk & Accounting Perspectives (Cambridge, UK) and IIM Bangalore’s IMRDC-
2012.

Her current research interests include Strategic, Financial, Governance & Behavioural
Perspectives on Mergers and Acquisitions in Emerging Markets.

Her teaching interests include Corporate Restructuring, Business Valuation and Corporate
Finance.

Name Radha Mukesh Ladkani

Qualification PGDIB (KJSIMSR Mumbai), FPM (IIM Calcutta)

Contact No. +91-731-2439698

Email radhal@iimidr.ac.in
Name Kousik Guhathakurta

Qualification B.E., MBA, Ph.D (Jadhavpur University)

Contact No. +91-731-2439518

Email kousikg@iimidr.ac.in

Curriculum Vitae Download

He has done his Ph.D from Jadavpur University. His doctoral thesis dealt with the topic ‘Indian
Stock Market: Examination of validity of Geometric Brownian Motion (GBM) model to Stock
Price Behaviour with particular emphasis on the Black Scholes Option Pricing Model’. He holds
a bachelor degree in Production Engineering, and MBA from Jadavpur University.

Before joining the doctoral programme at Jadavpur University, he worked with multi-national
and Indian firms for 10 years and 5 years in a Business School. Prior to joining IIM Indore he
was with IIM Kozhikode and has a total teaching experience of 12 years.

He has presented his work at various international and national conferences.

His current research interests include Quantitative Finance, Econo-Physics, Uncertainty and
Strategy. His teaching interests include Fixed Income Securities, Corporate Finance and
Investment analysis at Post Graduate level and Theory of Finance at Ph.D. level.

Publications:

Book

“Examining Stock Markets: a nonlinear dynamics perspective: Examining the Geometric

Brownian Motion model with respect to Stock Price Movement in an Emerging Market”,(Co
authored by Bhattacharya, B., Roychowdhuri, A. (2012) Germany: VDM
Verlagsservicegesellschaft mbH

Book Chapter

Guhathakurta, K., Marwan, N., Bhattacharya, B., & Chowdhury, A. R."Understanding the
Interrelationship Between Commodity and Stock Indices Daily Movement Using ACE and
Recurrence Analysis." Translational Recurrences. Springer International Publishing, 2014.
211-230.
Articles in Journals

“Using Recurrence Plot Analysis to distinguish between Endogenous and Exogenous Stock
Market Crashes” ,(co-authored by B. Bhattacharya & A. Roychowdhury) Physica A Volume
389, No 9, 1 May 2010
Empirical Mode Decomposition analysis of two different financial time series and their
comparison(co-authored by Indranil Mukherjee and A Roychowdhury), Chaos
Solitons & Fractals Vol 37, Issue 4, August 2008, pp 1214 – 1227

“Using Empirical Mode Decomposition to compare Gaussian and Non-Gaussian model of stock
price distribution”, co-authored by B. Bhattacharya & A. Roychowdhury), Decision Special Issue
on Finance, Volume37, No1, April 2010