Dr. Muskaan Arora

Assistant Professor

Ph.D in Behavioral Finance

Papers Published

• Arora, M., & Kumari, S. (2015). Risk taking in financial decisions as a function of age, gender: mediating role of loss aversion and regret. International Journal of Applied Psychology, 5(4), 83-89.
• Arora, M., & Kumari, S. (2015). Self-Esteem as Determinant of Investors ’stock Market Participation: Mediating Role of Risk Preferences and Behavioral Biases. Psychologia, 58(3), 115-126.
• Arora, M., & Kumari, S.. (2020). Cognitive Abilities, Emotional Intelligence and Financial Decision Making: Mediation By Behavioral Biases. International Journal of Advanced Science and Technology, 29(11s), 2941-2955.
• Arora, M., Sharma, R., & Mehta, K. (2022). Personality Effects on Financial Responses Caused by the Perceived Financial Threat during the COVID-19 Pandemic. The Journal of Wealth Management.

Book Chapters

• Sharma, K. K., Bansal, R., & Arora, M. (2020). 2020 Coronavirus: Pandemic in India. NPA
• Bansal, R., Sood, K., & Arora, M. (2021). Weser Books.

Books Published

• Arora, M., & Bansal, R. (2022). Impact of Emotional Intelligence and Behavioral Biases on Trading Decisions. In Handbook of Research on Stock Market Investment Practices and Portfolio Management (pp. 366-379). IGI Global.
• Sharma, R., Arora, M., & Mehta, K. (2022). Psychological Traits and Investors' Cryptocurrency Behavior. In Handbook of Research on Stock Market Investment Practices and Portfolio Management (pp. 215-228). IGI Global.

Conference Presentation

Best Paper Awarded titled “Psychological Determinants of Investment Decision Making: A Mediation Analysis” in the category of International Review of Business Research Papers in Global Business and Social Science Research Conference 23 - 24 February, 2017, Melbourne, Australia.

Attended and Presented paper entitled “The Effect of Age and Gender on Loss Aversion and Regret in financial decision making” in 28th International Congress of Applied Psychology held from 8-13 July 2014 in Paris (France).

Attended National conference entitled “Changing Perspectives and Paradigms of Business and Behavioral Sciences” at Thapar University.

Testimonial

Dr. Muskaan Arora is working as an Assistant Professor in TSLAS Department of Thapar University. She has 10+ years of working experience in various areas of industry, academics and research. Before joining the current job she worked as financial advisor for 2 years in finance industry and 8 years in top universities and colleges in Punjab. She also worked as Research associate in ICSSR Project at Thapar University. She has attended international conference and her paper is also awarded as best paper in one of the international conferences.. She is also an editor of two derivative books related to Covid 19. Her current job position includes various teaching and administrative related responsibilities in the university. Her keen interest area is doing research and career counselling for the students. She is also a certified mortgage trainer.