FACULTY
Prof. Amith Megaravalli holds a Doctorate Degree in Finance and Accounting from University of Naples (University of Naples Federico II), Italy. He has completed MBA in Finance and Marketing from University of Bangalore & has a Bachelor’s Degree in Commerce from University of Bangalore.
He was a faculty in Finance & Accounting area in Liverpool John Moores, Qatar. He was also the Research lead at Centre of Economic development at LJMU, Qatar. He has completed certification on “Value Creation” from Michigan Ross School of Business, Executive Education. He is also a member of British Accounting & Finance Association (UK).
He was associated with Swiss re, ICICI Manipal academy in training Bank managers related to financial products and services. Most of his career is spent on higher education and research. His experience of teaching and research extents to institutions in Italy, India, and Qatar. Consequently, he also holds experience in teaching higher education institutes in varying cultural contexts at both undergraduate and post graduate levels including theses/dissertations supervision. He has published several research papers in International Journals such as: Economics Letters, Applied Economics Letters, Journal of Family Business Management, Qualitative research in Financial Markets, Cogent Economics & Finance etc. He has also published teaching cases in Emerald Emerging Market case studies.
He is an ad-hoc reviewer for Journal of Business Research, Finance research letter, European Management Journal and Cogent Economics and Finance. He has also won several research grants which includes PhD Fellowship from University of Naples, Italy; Visiting Professor grant from University of Reggio Calabria, Italy; and Royalty grant from Emerald Emerging Market case studies. He has worked as management consultant for Shri Sagar CTR, restaurant in India in planning their business expansion and the same has been published in Emerald Emerging market case as teaching case in Management Accounting. He has completed a research project on “Sales Planning” using demand funnel technique for ICICI Bank for Bangalore South region. He has also worked as Faculty member and “Delegate of International affairs” for University of Parthenope, Italy and expanding International Partnership across Asia.
Publications
- Islam, N, Megaravalli, A. V., Sampagnaro, G., Banerjee, S., & Mulholland, G. Leading the Fintech Business: Strategic enabler for business growth & sustainability (Edited Book, In progress).
- Megaravalli, A. V. (2024). “Determinants of bank profitability before, during and after the demonetisation”. International Journal of Finance and Economics (ABS 3*) – Second Revision in progress.
- Megaravalli, A. V. (2023). Initial public offering: a critical review of the literature. Qualitative Research in Financial Markets, 15(2), 385-411, (ABS 1*).
- Megaravalli, A. V., & Das, A. (2022). Determinants of Bank Lending Behavior in India: An ARDL Approach. IUP Journal of Bank Management, 21(3), 7-26.
- Del Gaudio, B. L., Megaravalli, A. V., Sampagnaro, G., & Verdoliva, V. (2020). Mandatory disclosure tone and bank risk-taking: Evidence from Europe. Economics Letters, 186, 108531 (ABS 3*).
- Megaravalli, A. V., & Sampagnaro, G. (2018). Firm age and liquidity ratio as predictors of firm growth: Evidence from Indian firms. Applied economics letters, 25(19), 1373-1375 (ABS 1*).
- Megaravalli, A. V., & Sampagnaro, G. (2018). Predicting the growth of high-growth SMEs: evidence from family business firms. Journal of Family Business Management, 9(1), 98-109 (ABS 1*).
- Megaravalli, A. V., & Sampagnaro, G. (2018). Macroeconomic indicators and their impact on stock markets in ASIAN 3: A pooled mean group approach. Cogent Economics & Finance, 6(1), 1432450 (ABS 1*).
Conference Proceedings
- Arriving at the High-growth firm, 13th International CIRCLE Conference for Consumer Behaviour and Retailing Research ISBN: 978-0-9932345-1-4. Page 69 (CIRCLE 2016 BoA (circleinternational.co.uk)
Grants & Funding (From the start)
- PhD Fellowship, University of Naples Federico II, Naples, Italy (2014 to 2018) – Eur40,000
- Visiting Researcher grant from the University of Reggio di Calabria (2020) – Eur 12,000
- Management Consulting for CTR Expansion Plan – INR 50,000.