Nicha Lapanan

Nicha Lapanan is an Associate Professor at the Department of Economics and Finance within the School of Business and Law at the University of Agder (UiA). She holds a Ph.D. in Finance from Umeå University and focuses on socially responsible investing, individual investor behavior, and stock market anomalies.

• Specialization in Finance (Ph.D., Umeå University)

Research Interests

Lapanan investigates how individual investors approach socially responsible investing, analyzing mutual fund dynamics, stock return anomalies, and the value-relevance of accounting information. Her work bridges behavioral finance with ethical investment practices.

Articles Trends

Her publications emphasize investor behavior in socially responsible contexts (2023, 2020), market anomaly patterns (2023), and information asymmetry in investment decisions (2018).

Teaching

• TFL401-1 Entrepreneurial Finance
• BE-410-1 Corporate Finance