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9th Rutgers-ATP India Accounting & Finance Symposium, January 5 - 6, 2026

Conference Schedule

DAY 1: Monday, 5th January 2026

Venue: Classroom N-001, IIM Bangalore Campus

TimeActivity
09:00 AM – 09:15 AM Inauguration
09:15 AM – 10:00 AM Session 1
Presenter: Apoorv Gogar (Indian School of Business)
Paper: Financial Reporting Frequency, the Confirmatory Role of Accounting, and the Cost of Bank Debt
Discussant: Venu Madhav Tatiparti (Indian Institute of Management Bangalore)
10:00 AM – 10:45 AM Session 2
Presenter: Prateek Nahar (Indian Institute of Management Raipur)
Paper: The Effect of Bank Capital Constraints on Borrower Accounting Practices: Evidence from India’s AQR
Discussant: Ankitkumar Kariya (University College Dublin School of Business)
10:45 AM – 11:15 AM Break
11:15 AM – 12:45 PM Law and Economics Panel
Moderator: Suresh Govindaraj (Rutgers Business School – Newark and New Brunswick)
Panelists:
  • Arjan Kumar Sikri (International Judge at the Singapore International Commercial Court, Singapore Supreme Court; Former Judge of the Supreme Court of India)
  • M. S. Sahoo (Dr. Sahoo Regulatory Chambers; Former Chairperson, Insolvency and Bankruptcy Board of India (IBBI))
  • Shubhashis Gangopadhyay (Professor at Indian School of Public Policy, Founder and Research Director, India Development Foundation)
01:00 PM – 02:30 PM Lunch
02:30 PM – 03:15 PM Session 3
Presenter: Diksha Mittal (Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee)
Paper: Quantifying the Impact of Climate Policy Uncertainty on Banking Assets: Novel Evidence from the Fastest Economy
Discussant: Nitin Vishen (Indian Institute of Management Bangalore)
03:15 PM – 04:00 PM Session 4
Presenter: Chinmoy Ghosh (University of Connecticut School of Business)
Paper: Shelter from Extreme Natural Disasters: Climate Risk Diversification through M&A
Discussant: Sreejith Mohanan (Jagdish Sheth School of Management)
04:00 PM – 04:30 PM Break
04:30 PM – 05:15 PM Session 5
Presenter: Ravi Joshi (E.J. Ourso College of Business, Louisiana State University)
Paper: Information Dynamics and Run on Stablecoin
Discussant: Elapulli Vasudevan (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad)
07:00 PM onward Gala Dinner

DAY 2: Tuesday, 6th Jan 2026

Venue: Classroom N-001, IIM Bangalore Campus

TimeActivity
09:30 AM – 10:15 AM Session 6
Presenter: P. Raghavendra Rau (Cambridge Judge Business School)
Paper: Toxic Biases in CEO Selection: Evidence from Pollution Exposure and Within-Firm Promotions
Discussant: Richard Crowley (Singapore Management University School of Accountancy)
10:15 AM – 11:00 AM Session 7
Presenter: Swetha Agarwal (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad)
Paper: Words that Bind: The Relation Between Linguistic Homophily Between Audit Partner and Client Executives and Audit Outcomes
Discussant: Michael Alles (Rutgers Business School – Newark and New Brunswick)
11:00 AM – 11:30 AM Break
11:30 AM – 01:00 PM Editorial Panel
Moderator: P. Raghavendra Rau (Cambridge Judge Business School)

Panelists:

  • Anne D’Arcy (Vienna University of Economics and Business)
  • Sanjay Kallapur (Indian School of Business)
  • Bin Srinidhi (College of Business, University of Texas at Arlington)
01:00 PM – 02:30 PM Lunch
02:30 PM – 03:15 PM Session 8
Presenter: Santushti Gupta (T A Pai Management Institute)
Paper: Mandated to Disclose, Exposed to Risk: Impact of Mandatory ESG Disclosures on Crash Risk
Discussant: Sumeet Rajput (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad)
03:15 PM – 03:30 PM Closing Remarks