Ms. Aastha Gupta

Aastha Gupta is pursuing Ph. D in the finance area at Department of Management Studies, IIT Delhi. Her thesis work examines the benefits of using derivatives on various firm outcomes in the Indian context. She has participated and presented her research at renowned national and international conferences such as, Southwestern Finance Association Annual Meeting, FMA Asia Pacific Conference, Asian Finance Association Annual Meeting, and the India Finance Conference. A consistent top performer in academics, her teaching interests include Financial management, Financial institutions and markets, Security analysis and portfolio management.

PhD (Finance) - IIT Delhi, M.Com.

1 year

Achievements and Awards:

Awarded the Southwestern Finance Association Student Travel Grant for presenting research at the Southwestern Finance Association Annual Meeting held in February 2024 at Las Vegas, USA

Qualified Junior Research Fellowship (JRF) and eligibility for Assistant Professor in the National Eligibility Test (UGC-NET) in 2019

Secured the highest aggregate score in B. Com (Hons) 1st year in the academic session 2015-16

Awarded the Sultan Chand Dropadi Devi Education Foundation (Dr. Miss Usha Aggarwal) scholarship for securing highest percentage of marks in all the papers in the college in B. Com (Hons) 1st semester university exam

Secured the highest aggregate score in B. Com (Hons) 2nd year in the academic session 2016-17

Secured the highest aggregate score in B. Com (Hons) 3rd year in the academic session 2017-18

Awarded the Sultan Chand Dropadi Devi Education Foundation scholarship for securing 1st position in B. Com (Hons) 3rd year in the academic session 2017-18

Conference presentations:

Southwestern Finance Association Annual Meeting held in February 2024 at Las Vegas, USA

Global Conference of British Accounting Review held in December 2023 (online)

India Finance Conference held in December 2023 at the N.L. Dalmia Institute of Management and Research, Mumbai, India

5th International Conference on Financial Markets and Corporate Finance held in July 2023 at the Department of Management Studies, IIT Delhi, India

35th Asian Finance Association Conference held in June 2023 at the University of Economics, Ho Chi Minh city, Vietnam

13th Financial Markets and Corporate Governance Conference held in April 2023 (online)

2nd International Conference on Business and Management held in January 2023, at Delhi School of Management, Delhi Technological University, India

Doctoral Student Consortium, FMA Asia-Pacific Conference in December 2022 at Monash University, Melbourne, Australia

Research works:

Published:

The first thesis paper, titled “Do Derivatives Benefit Shareholders? Evidence from India”, is published in Finance Research Letters (ABDC: A, Impact Factor: 10.4, CiteScore: 11.1; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.frl.2023.104012)

Under Review:

The second research paper, titled “The Impact of Using Derivatives on Stock Market Liquidity”, has received a revise and resubmit decision in the Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions and Money (ABDC: A, Impact Factor: 4, CiteScore: 6.6)