Dr Akanksha JALAN

Associate Professor

Department: Finance and Accounting

Nationalities:

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

  • Akanksha Jalan, Roman Matkovskyy, Valerio Poti, Akhtar Siddique. Stablecoins: Funding and Market Liquidity. 4th Crypto Asset Lab Conference: Investments, Economics, and Regulation for Bitcoin and Crypto-Assets, Milano, Italy, 11-12 January 2024
  • Jalan, A., Matkovskyy, R. Perceptions of sustainability and ethics of crypto assets and their roles in future crypto holding – Evidence from three Nordic countries. Swedish Community for Sustainable Finance Conference 2024; Gothenburg Sweden, 25-26 April 2024
  • Akanksha Jalan and Roman Matkovskyy. Perceptions of sustainability and ethics of crypto assets and their roles in future crypto holding – Evidence from three Nordic countries. 3nd Conference on International Finance; Sustainable and Climate Finance and Growth, Reading, UK, 9-11 June 2024
  • Ylva Baeckstrom, Akanksha Jalan and Roman Matkovskyy. The role of trust and risk-perception for cryptocurrency adoption: Evidence from three Nordic countries. 17th Behavioural Finance Working Group Annual Conference, London, UK, 6-7 June 2024
  • Baeckstrom Ylva, Jalan Akanksha, Matkovskyy Roman. The role of trust and risk-perception for cryptocurrency adoption: Evidence from three Nordic countries. European Financial Management Association (EFMA), Lisbon, Portugal, 26-29 June 2024
  • Jalan Akanksha, Matkovskyy Roman. Individual crypto investors in the Nordic countries: survey modeling. FinAI Doctoral Training School Conference, Twenter, the Netherlands; 12-14 June 2024
  • Tanveer Ahsan, Saqib Aziz, Akanksha Jalan, Fazal Muhammad, Dhoha Trabelsi. Bank income smoothing, societal patriarchy and policy uncertainty. VSBF, Hanoi, Vietnam, 26-28 October 2023
  • Jalan, A., Matkovskyy, R.  Perceptions of sustainability and ethics of crypto assets and their roles in future crypto holding, Evidence from three Nordic countries 7th Shanghai-Edinburgh-UCL Fintech Conference, October 2023
  • 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