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Dr Nisha Prakash

Lecturer In Financial Management

Lecturer

Financial Management, Centre for Sustainability

Department of Strategy and Leadership , Royal Docks School Of Business And Law

Dr Nisha Prakash is an academic with over 16 years of experience spanning both industry and teaching. She is passionate about raising responsible business leaders. Her research interests are sustainable finance, corporate social responsibility, and social enterprises.

Qualifications

  • BE (Electronics and Communication)
  • MBA (Finance)
  • PhD (Management)

Areas Of Interest

  • Financial Management
  • Sustainable Finance and Investment
  • Security Analysis and Portfolio Management
  • Microeconomics
  • Econometrics
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OVERVIEW

Dr Nisha Prakash is an academic with over 16 years of work experience spanning both industry and teaching. Prior to academia, she worked with reputed consultancy firms such as Deloitte Touche and Tohmatsu, KPMG and Hewlett-Packard for 10 years. She transitioned to academia because of her passion for teaching and research. Though her expertise is in financial management, she also enjoys teaching statistics, econometrics, and microeconomics.

Her research interests are in the business aspects on sustainability and climate change. She is particularly fascinated by financing sustainable projects, economies of social enterprises, corporate social responsibility, and integrating sustainability into the management curriculum. Her doctoral thesis titled “An empirical investigation of determinants influencing climate finance flows” where she tried to understand the factors influencing climate finance flows.

She truly believes that building responsible business leaders is the first step toward building sustainable enterprises. It will also assist in making the next generation(s) responsible in their consumption decisions. Dr Nisha is currently exploring opportunities for funded research in areas of sustainability.

MOST RECENT RESEARCH

  • Prakash, N., & Sethi, M. (2021). Green Bonds Driving Sustainable Transition in Asian Economies: The Case of India. The Journal of Asian Finance, Economics, and Business, 8(1), 723-732. https://doi.org/10.13106/jafeb.2021.vol8.no1.723
  •  Prakash, N., Alagarsamy, S. and Hawaldar, A. (2022). Demographic characteristics influencing financial wellbeing: a multigroup analysis. Managerial Finance, Vol. 48 No.9/10, pp. 1334-1351. https://doi.org/10.1108/MF-09-2021-0466
  • Prakash, N. and Sethi, M. (2022), "A review of innovative bond instruments for sustainable development in Asia", International Journal of Innovation Science, Vol. 14 No. 3/4, pp. 630-647. https://doi.org/10.1108/IJIS-10-2020-0213

PUBLICATIONS

Journal Articles

  1. Prakash, N., and Hawaldar, A. (2023). Investigating the Determinants of Financial Well-Being: A SEM Approach. Business Perspectives and Research, Vol. ahead-of-print No. ahead-of-print, https://doi.org/10.1177/22785337221148253
  2. Prakash, N. and Sethi, M. (2023) Relationship between fixed capital formation and carbon emissions: Impact of trade liberalization in India, Cogent Economics & Finance, 11:2, https://doi.org/10.1080/23322039.2023.2245274
  3. Prakash, N. and Hawaldar, A. (2023), Role of management education in adapting the Indian public sector to market-based economic reforms, International Journal of Public Sector Management, Vol. ahead-of-print No. ahead-of-print. https://doi.org/10.1108/IJPSM-01-2022-0003
  4. Prakash, N., & Sethi, M. (2021). Green Bonds Driving Sustainable Transition in Asian Economies: The Case of India. The Journal of Asian Finance, Economics, and Business, 8(1), 723-732. https://doi.org/10.13106/jafeb.2021.vol8.no1.723
  5. Prakash, N., Alagarsamy, S. and Hawaldar, A. (2022). Demographic characteristics influencing financial wellbeing: a multigroup analysis. Managerial Finance, Vol. 48 No. 9/10, pp. 1334-1351. https://doi.org/10.1108/MF-09-2021-0466
  6. Prakash, N., & L, Yogesh. (2021). Market Reaction to Dividend Announcements During Pandemic: An Event Study. Vision, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/09722629211066288
  7. Prakash, N. and Sethi, M. (2022), "A review of innovative bond instruments for sustainable development in Asia", International Journal of Innovation Science, Vol. 14 No. 3/4, pp. 630-647. https://doi.org/10.1108/IJIS-10-2020-0213
  8. Prakash, N., & Alagarsamy, S. (2022). Does Gender and Family Income Impact Stock Trading of B-School Students? Findings from a Stock Simulation Exercise. Vision, 26(4), 454–460. https://doi.org/10.1177/0972262921992591
  9. Prakash, N., & Sethi, M. (2022). Investigating the foreign trade-emission nexus in RCEP. Int. J. Green Economics, 16(3), 219. https://doi.org/10.1504/IJGE.2022.128932
  10. Prakash, N., Maheshwari, A. and Hawaldar, A. (2022). The impact of Covid-19 on the capital structure in emerging economies: evidence from India. Asian Journal of Accounting Research, Vol. ahead-of-print No. ahead-of-print. https://doi.org/10.1108/AJAR-05-2022-0144
  11. Prakash, N. and Sethi, M. (2022). Emissions-foreign trade nexus: establishing the need to harmonize environment and economics in RCEP. Journal of Economic and Administrative Sciences, Vol. ahead-of-print No. ahead-of-print. https://doi.org/10.1108/JEAS-04-2022-0093
  12. Mohanty, N., & Prakash, N. (2019). Project Credit Appraisal Process at a Leading Power Financing Company in India: A Review. PIMT, 5, 55.

MODULES

  • Financial Management

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