Business School

Mr Ankit Jain

Lecturer in Accounting
School of Business
+61 7 334 68156
Room 415, Colin Clark Building (39), St. Lucia Campus
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Researcher biography

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.

Publications

Journal Articles (4)
Conference Papers (2)
Research Report (1)

Journal Articles

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
Jain, Ankit (2023). Disclosure tone and short-selling pressure: evidence from Regulation-SHO. European Accounting Review, 1-26. doi: 10.1080/09638180.2023.2270655
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
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

Conference Papers

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.
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.

Research Report

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.