G. P. Girish
* Corresponding Author
IBS Hyderabad, ICFAI Foundation For Higher Education (IFHE) University, Andhra Pradesh
India

GIRISH, G P. is a Teaching Faculty and Doctoral Research Scholar at IBS Hyderabad, IFHE University (a Deemed-to-be-University under Sec 3 of UGC Act 1956). He teaches Financial Management courses at Undergraduate and Post Graduate level (i.e. for MBA and BBA). He has obtained his bachelors in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from University Visveswaraya College of Engineering (UVCE), Bangalore University and his Masters in Business Administration (Finance) from IBS Hyderabad, IFHE University. He is a recipient of Complete Scholarship and funding for his MBA and PhD education from IBS Hyderabad. He was a Visiting Research Scholar at the Center for Financial Risk, Department of Applied Finance and Actuarial Studies, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia (2012-13) and also pursued a semester of his MBA in Adelaide, Australia under complete Scholarship in 2009-10 (Study Abroad Program-IBS Adelaide-University of South Australia (UniSA)). He is presently a Reviewer (Ad-hoc) for Journal of Business and Economic Management, Academia Publishing, USA. His areas of interest are Power Markets, Energy Economics and Risk Management.
    Author’s Contact details: Department of Finance, IBS Hyderabad, IFHE University, Andhra Pradesh, India, e-mail: gpgirish.ibs@gmail.com.      

Nikhil Rastogi
Institute of Management Technology (IMT) Hyderabad
India

RASTOGI, Nikhil is an Associate Professor in IMT Hyderabad. Dr. Rastogi teaches courses in the area of Finance and Analytics. He has completed his BSc (Mathematics Honors) from Delhi University and PGDBM from IPM Lucknow. Dr. Rastogi has worked for four years as debt and investment analyst. The job involved recommendations related to the security performance and evaluation as well as due diligence on behalf of the company. Dr. Rastogi was a part of the team involved in two IT related acquisitions and subsequent merger. He joined ICFAI Institute for Management Teachers (IIMT), to complete a Management Teachers Program (MTP) as well as pursue PhD in the area of Market Microstructure. He subsequently joined ICFAI Business School (IBS) as a senior lecturer in year 2006 and was subsequently promoted to Assistant Professor in 2007. At IBS he has taught courses like Financial Management, Security Analysis, Portfolio Management, Financial Modeling using SAS and Quantitative Finance. He has conducted workshops is the areas of financial modeling using excel for Reliance Infrastructure in 2009 and 2010. He has also taken workshops in the area of Financial Modeling using SAS for academicians. Dr. Rastogi was honored with the “Best Teacher Award”, instituted by the IBS alumni federation for the year 2010. His research interest include derivative pricing, financial engineering and market microstructure. He is presently guiding PhD students in these areas. He is presently the consulting editor for IUP Journal of Behavioral Finance.
    Author’s Contact details: Department of Finance and Accounting, IMT Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India, e-mail: nrastogi@imthyderabad.edu.in.