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)
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
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
