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Dr Saikat Sovan Deb

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Position

Senior Lecturer

Faculty

Faculty of Business and Law

Department

Deakin Business School

Campus

Melbourne Burwood Campus

Qualifications

Graduate Certificate of Higher Education, Deakin University, 2009
Doctor of Philosophy, Monash University, 2008
Postgraduate Diploma in Business Management, Inst. Management Tech. India, 2001
Bachelor of Science, , 1999

Contact

saikat.deb@deakin.edu.au
+61 3 925 17745

Biography

Dr Saikat Sovan Deb is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Finance in Deakin Business School. Saikat teaches units in investments and empirical research methods. His research interests include empirical asset pricing and market microstructure.

Saikat completed his PhD in Finance from Monash University in 2008, Graduate Certificate of Higher Education in Deakin Univerisity in 2009, Postgraduate Diploma in Business Management from Institute Management Technology India in 2001 and Bachelor of Science in 1999.  

Saikat has published his research in various international journals including, Journal of Banking of Finance, Pacific-Basin Finance Journal and Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions and Money. He is also serving as the Director of Higher Degree by Research for Department of Finance since 2016.

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Research interests

  • Asset Pricing
  • Funds Management
  • Market Microstructure

Teaching interests

  • Equity and Investments
  • Financial Markets
  • Financial Intermediation
  • Research Methods

Units taught

  • MAF307 - Equities and Investment Analysis
  • MAF763/MAF454 - Financial Intermediation
  • MAF202 - Money and Capital Markets 

Publications

No publications found

Funded Projects at Deakin

Industry and Other Funding

Order attributes and execution efficiency of limit orders

Dr Saikat Sovan Deb, Prof Charles Corrado

Accounting & Finance Assoc of Australian & New Zealand Grant - Research

  • 2009: $3,191

Supervisions

Principal Supervisor
2021

Amanjot Singh

Thesis entitled: Three Essays on Hedge Fund Activism

Doctor of Philosophy, Department of Finance

Associate Supervisor
2023

Eva Lei Shi

Thesis entitled: Return Skewness and Skewness Risk in Hedge Funds

Doctor of Philosophy, Department of Finance

2022

Regev Bar

Thesis entitled: Information, Transparency and Efficiency in Markets

Doctor of Philosophy, Department of Economics

2021

Prasanna Laxminarayana Tantri

Thesis entitled: Banking Issues in Emerging Markets: Evidence from India

Doctor of Philosophy, Department of Finance

2016

Venura Welagedara

Thesis entitled: The Post-Revision Drift, Analyst Characteristics and Investor Attention

Doctor of Philosophy, Department of Finance

2014

Yuwei Zhou

Thesis entitled: Stock Returns and Inflation Revisited: Australian Evidences

Doctor of Philosophy, School of Accounting, Economics & Finance