Professor Arnab Bhattacharya, Faculty, Finance and Accounting area, IIM Indore, received ‘Satish K. Sehgal Doctoral Student Award’ for excellence inscholarship and organizational citizenship during the Annual Convocation held at IIM Calcutta in April 2015.
The award is given during the Annual Convocation each year in IIM Calcutta to one participant amongst the convocating doctoral students. The award includes a citation and a cash prize.
Professor Bhattacharya received this award for his dissertation titled “Three Essays on Initial Public Offerings: Evidence from India” under the guidance of Professor B. B. Chakrabarti. His doctoral thesis examined IPO mechanisms, and analyzed liquidity and adverse selection risk issues in IPO aftermarkets at a high frequency level.