A high schooler's econometrics paper, accepted at an international finance symposium
Karan joined the YRI Fellowship in March 2026 wanting to do real work in finance, and was paired with a mentor to design a study most students would not attempt before graduate school: a Difference-in-Differences analysis of how short-duration geopolitical shocks move sector stocks relative to the broader market, using the 2016 Uri attack and 2025 Operation Sindoor as events, with InterGlobe Aviation against the BSE Sensex. Six months after enrolling, the full paper was accepted at the World Finance & Banking Symposium, an international academic finance conference held in Riga, Latvia, where he will present alongside university researchers in December 2026.
A senior at Delhi Public School, Chandigarh with a strong interest in markets and economics but no research training and no idea how academic finance actually works.
First-author of a full econometrics paper accepted at the World Finance & Banking Symposium 2026 in Riga, Latvia, listed on the conference's public accepted-papers index.