“Finance seems to be number game but is the most basic necessity of human life and so for organizations. It is quintessential for survival. I am passionate about imparting this life saving skill to my students. I drive satisfaction from seeing my students getting matured in understanding of money matters with ethics.”

I had always been a meritorious student. I was in merit list of Punjab School Education Board for Matriculation and Senior Secondary, College topper in 7/8 semesters in B.E. (Computer Science & Engineering) from University of Madras, and Merit certificate holder in M.B.A (Finance & Economics) from Punjab Agriculture University, Ludhiana.

I did Fellowship Programme in Management (FPM) from National Institute of Financial Management, Faridabad (under Ministry of Finance, Govt. of India). I was topper of my batch for the course work.

I pursued my doctoral research in Performance and its Determinants of Mutual Funds in India. The papers based on thesis have been published in ABDC ranked and Scopus listed journals.

Teaching Interests: Financial Management, Investment Analysis, Corporate Valuation
Research Interests: Portfolio Optimization, Asset Pricing, Inequality, Financial Inclusion, Exchange rate forecasting

Journal Publications

1. Inderjit Kaur, Kamal Vagrecha, Causality between equity mutual fund flows, stock market return and volatility: Indian evidence. International Journal of Business and Globalization, Inderscience. Forthcoming. ABDC ranking: C
2. Neba Bhalla, Rakesh Sharma, Inderjit Kaur, Effect of Goods and Service Tax System on Business Performance of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises, Forthcoming, SAGE Open, Scopus and SCIMago indexed.
3. Neba Bhalla, Rakesh Sharma, Inderjit Kaur, Investigating the effect of Goods and Service tax on operational performance, cost efficiency and profit margins of MSMEs, Int. Journal of accounting, auditing and performance evaluation, Forthcoming, Scopus Indexed
4. Neba Bhalla, Rakesh Sharma, Inderjit Kaur, Goods and Service tax: A compromise or breakthrough, International Journal of Business Excellence, Forthcoming, Scopus Indexed
5. Neba Bhalla, Rakesh Sharma, Inderjit Kaur, Impact of Goods and Service tax on MSME sector: A study using Artificial Neural Network and Multivariate analysis of variance, The Indian Economic Journal, Forthcoming, ABDC and ICI indexed
6. Neba Bhalla, Inderjit Kaur, Rakesh Sharma, Examining the effect of tax reform determinants, firms’ characteristics and demographic factors on the financial performance of small and micro enterprises. Sustainability, Vol 14, 2022, SSCI indexed.
7. Neba Bhalla, Rakesh Sharma, Inderjit Kaur, Effect of tax knowledge and technological shift in tax system on business performance: a PLS-SEM analysis. Sustainability, Vol 14, 2022, SSCI indexed.
8. Neba Bhalla, Inderjit Kaur, Rakesh Sharma, Do macroeconomic variables discriminate stock market returns in pre- and post-tac reform era? SCMS Journal of India Management, Vol 19(3), 2022, Scopus Indexed
9. Inderjit Kaur, Effect of Mutual Funds Characteristics on their Performance and Trading Strategy: A Dynamic Panel Approach. Cogent Economics & Finance, Vol 6(1), 2018, Taylor and Francis. ABDC ranking-B.
10. Inderjit Kaur, Mutual fund’s investors behaviour towards information search and selection criteria: do knowledge and perception about mutual funds matter? Qualitative Research in Financial Markets, Vol 10(4), 2018, Emerald. ABDC ranking-B.
11. Inderjit Kaur, C.P. Gupta, & K.P. Kaushik, Impact of Dynamic Risk Strategy of Mutual Funds on their Performance: Evidence from Indian Equity Mutual Funds. South Asian Journal of Management, 25(1), 1-21, 2018. ABDC ranking-C.
12. Inderjit Kaur, Performance of Equity Mutual Fund and Educational Credentials of Fund Manager. Vision, 21(1), 23-34, 2017, Sage Publications, Scopus listed.
13. Inderjit Kaur, K.P. Kaushik, Mutual fund ownership and sponsor background: effect on performance and risk strategy, International Journal of Management Practice, Vol. 9(3), 282-301, 2016, Inderscience. ABDC ranking-C.
14. Inderjit Kaur, K.P. Kaushik, An empirical analysis of determinants of investment in mutual funds, Journal of Indian Business Research, Vol. 8(1), 19-42, 2015, Emerald. ABDC ranking-C.
15. Inderjit Kaur, Early warning system of currency crisis- Insights from global crisis 2008, The IUP Journal of Applied Economics, Vol. 14(1), 69-83, Jan., 2015. ABDC ranking-C.
16. Inderjit Kaur, Effect of fund attributes on efficiency: cross-sectional evidence from Indian equity mutual funds, Journal of Commerce & Accounting Research, Vol. 3(4), 35-46, Jan., 2014. ABDC ranking-C.
17. Inderjit Kaur, Capital structure decision- theoretical underpinnings and empirical evidences, Journal of Commerce & Accounting Research, Vol. 3 (1), 39-46, Jan., 2014. ABDC ranking-C.
18. Inderjit Kaur, Performance, Timing and Selectivity skills of Indian Equity Mutual funds: an empirical approach, Researchers World-Journal of Arts, Science & Commerce, Vol. 4 (4), 87-94, Oct., 2013.
    
     
    Text Book/Edited Book
19. Inderjit Kaur, K.P. Kaushik, “Performance Evaluation of Equity Mutual Funds in India- A non-parametric approach”, Chapter 10 in an edited volume on An Application on Computational and Financial Econometrics, published by Bloomsbury Publishing India Pvt. Ltd, ISBN: 978-93-82951-36-0 (2013).
20. Rakesh Kumar Sharma, Inderjit Kaur, “Security Analysis and Portfolio Management”, Text book for post-graduation courses, Galgotia Publication, India (2015). ISBN: 81-8218-083-X.
21. Amarjeet Kaur Malhotra, Puja C. Sharma, Tanya Shaw, Inderjit Kaur, Imperatives of Global Business-Innovation & Knowledge Management, Bloomsbury Publications India Pvt. Ltd., ISBN: 978-93-85936-05-0 (2016).
22. Amarjeet Kaur Malhotra, Sona Vikas, Inderjit Kaur, Navdeep Barwal, Digitalization, Entrepreneurship and Skilling-The Future Lies here, Bloomsbury Publications India Pvt. Ltd., ISBN: 978-93-85936-05-0 (2017).   
    
     
    Conference Proceedings
23. Inderjit Kaur, K.P. Kaushik, Macroeconomic Risk and Equity Fund Returns, 2nd International Conference on Economics and Finance: Conference Paper and Proceedings, 2015, Nepal Rashtra Bank, 350-, ISBN: 978-9937-2-9435-5.
24. Inderjit Kaur, K.P. Kaushik, Ownership, Fund characteristics and Fund Performance, Evidence based Management: Practices in Economics and Finance, 2015, 93-103, ISBN: 978-93-84935-18-4.

Achievement, Awards and Recognitions:

UGC-NET qualified

Fellow of NIFM under Ministry of Finance, Govt. of India

Assisted Sponsored Project on, “Estimation of Unaccounted Income/Wealth within and outside India”, sponsored by CBDT, Ministry of Finance, Govt. of India. (June 2011-May 2012)