Ankit completed his doctoral studies in Accounting at the Indian School of Business (ISB) and joined UQ Business School as a Lecturer in 2018.
He is mainly interested in capital market research. His current research work focuses on the informativeness of corporate textual disclosures and investors’ behaviour in the secondary market. His work has been published in high-quality journals (ABDC A*), such as the Journal of Banking and Finance, Journal of Business Finance and Accounting, and European Accounting Review. He regularly reviews manuscripts submitted to a number of journals including the Journal of Banking & Finance, Journal of Business Finance and Accounting, British Accounting Review, European Accounting Review, Journal of Accounting and Public Policy, Meditari Accountancy Research, and Pacific-Basin Finance Journal. His research papers have been presented at various national and international conferences including the Accounting & Finance Association of Australia and New Zealand (AFAANZ) Conferences, the Accounting and Finance Research Forum, the AAA Annual Meeting, the EAA Annual Congress, the European Financial Reporting (EUFIN) Workshop, the International Association for Accounting Education & Research (IAAER) World Congress, the MIT Asia Conference in Accounting, and the Asian Finance Association Conference. He is also a recipient of the best paper awards at the 2022 Accounting & Finance Association of Australia and New Zealand (AFAANZ) Conference, the 2018 Financial Market and Corporate Governance (FMCG) Conference at La Trobe University, Melbourne and the 2015 IMR Doctoral Conference at the Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Bangalore.
Ankit has over five years of industry experience working with investment banks such as HSBC and Nomura.
Journal Article: Is more always better? Information acquisition and stock price crash risk
Fung, Simon Yu Kit, Jain, Ankit and Tiwari, Moumita (2024). Is more always better? Information acquisition and stock price crash risk. Economics Letters, 236 111574, 111574. doi: 10.1016/j.econlet.2024.111574
Journal Article: Disclosure tone and short-selling pressure: evidence from Regulation-SHO
Jain, Ankit (2023). Disclosure tone and short-selling pressure: evidence from Regulation-SHO. European Accounting Review, 1-26. doi: 10.1080/09638180.2023.2270655
Journal Article: Institutional ownership and the informativeness of disclosure tone
Jain, Ankit, Manchiraju, Hariom and Sunder, Shyam V (2022). Institutional ownership and the informativeness of disclosure tone. Journal of Business Finance and Accounting, 50 (1-2), 61-90. doi: 10.1111/jbfa.12640
(2020–2021) AFAANZ Research Grants
Textual Disclosures and Retail Investors
(2019–2020) NSE-NYU Stern Initiative on the Study of Indian Financial Markets
Is more always better? Information acquisition and stock price crash risk
Fung, Simon Yu Kit, Jain, Ankit and Tiwari, Moumita (2024). Is more always better? Information acquisition and stock price crash risk. Economics Letters, 236 111574, 111574. doi: 10.1016/j.econlet.2024.111574
Disclosure tone and short-selling pressure: evidence from Regulation-SHO
Jain, Ankit (2023). Disclosure tone and short-selling pressure: evidence from Regulation-SHO. European Accounting Review, 1-26. doi: 10.1080/09638180.2023.2270655
Institutional ownership and the informativeness of disclosure tone
Jain, Ankit, Manchiraju, Hariom and Sunder, Shyam V (2022). Institutional ownership and the informativeness of disclosure tone. Journal of Business Finance and Accounting, 50 (1-2), 61-90. doi: 10.1111/jbfa.12640
Demand curves for stocks do not slope downwards: evidence using an exogenous supply shock
Jain, Ankit, Tantri, Prasanna and Thirumalai, Ramabhadran S. (2019). Demand curves for stocks do not slope downwards: evidence using an exogenous supply shock. Journal of Banking and Finance, 104, 19-30. doi: 10.1016/j.jbankfin.2019.03.012
Financial statement comparability and qualitative disclosures
Jain, Ankit and Madadian, Oveis (2022). Financial statement comparability and qualitative disclosures. 2022 Accounting and Finance Association of Australia and New Zealand (AFAANZ) Conference, Melbourne, VIC, Australia, 3-5 July 2022.
Asset impairment announcements: the dual effects of relevance and credibility
Clarkson, P. M., Herbohn, K., Jain, A. and Liu, J. (2021). Asset impairment announcements: the dual effects of relevance and credibility. 2021 Accounting and Finance Association of Australia and New Zealand (AFAANZ) Conference, Virtual, 5-7 July 2021.
Disclosure and shareholder voting: evidence from India
He, Wen, Jain, Ankit and Sunder, Shyam V. (2020). Disclosure and shareholder voting: evidence from India. Market Pulse, Vol. 2, Issue 10 Mumbai, India: Economic Policy and Research, National Stock Exchange (NSE) of India.
(2020–2021) AFAANZ Research Grants
Textual Disclosures and Retail Investors
(2019–2020) NSE-NYU Stern Initiative on the Study of Indian Financial Markets