Dr. Subhendu Kumar Pradhan is an assistant professor of finance at VIT Business School, Vellore Institute of Technology Vellore. He has more than seven years of teaching and research experience as well. he had worked as a Post-doctoral fellow in the Department of Economics at Indian Institute of Technology Indore. He had completed M.Phil and Ph.D in Management from Pondicherry Central University. He was awarded Doctoral Fellowship from Indian Council of Social Sciences in 2015. His area of research interest is information efficiency, corporate actions, volatility spillover and behavioral finance. He is an expert on structural equation modelling, applied financial econometrics, bibliometric analysis and meta-analysis.