Can Investor Behaviour Signal Future Economic Conditions?
Prachi Deuskar is an Assistant Professor of Finance at the Indian School of Business.
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Can home businesses succeed? Which banks use credit scores to evaluate loan applications and why? How has growth of e-commerce retailers like Amazon affected employment and revenues in local retail? And how does better connectivity through roads affect access to credit? On behalf of ISBInsight, Ujval Nanavati spoke with authors of four fascinating research papers presented at the ISB Centre for Analytical Finance’s Summer Research Conference 2018.
Read moreWhy Stock Prices Tumble after Bank CEO Turnover
Change in top leadership, specifically in banks, is marked by a shift in strategy and an immediate decline in stock prices. Research into bank CEO turnover provides insights on how career concerns and management incentives lead to distortionary practices. On behalf of ISBInsight, Ujval Nanavati spoke with two authors of the paper ‘Effects of CEO Turnover in Banks’, Krishnamurthy Subramanian and Prasanna Tantri, to understand their research findings and the implications of their research for policymakers.
Read morePay for Performance in Government: Has its Time Finally Come?
Holding governments accountable for delivering on promises and incentivising government employees appropriately is a fundamental requirement of good governance. This...
Read moreWhat Really Decides the Pay of Division Managers
Do you manage one division of a large multi-division organisation? The surprising factors that determine your pay lie not only...
Read more“Any time an economist writes down a model, it is wrong”
Lars Peter Hansen, the recipient of the 2013 Noble Prize in Economics, was at the Indian School of Business (ISB) recently to address the Summer Research Conference in Finance. The David Rockefeller Distinguished Service Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago, is a leading expert in economic dynamics who works at the boundaries of macroeconomics, fi nance, and econometrics. Best known for his work on the Generalized Method of Moments, he is also a distinguished macroeconomist, focusing on the linkages between the financial sector and the macro economy. His current collaborative research develops and applies methods for pricing the exposure to macroeconomic shocks over alternative investment horizons and investigates the implications of the pricing of long-term uncertainty.
Ahead of the event at its Hyderabad campus, ISB hosted Professor Hansen in Mumbai for interaction with senior financial sector representatives and ISB alumni. Bhagwan Chowdhry, Professor of Finance at UCLA Anderson School of Management engaged the Nobel Laureate in a conversation bringing deep insights into the latter’s work and views on world issues. Edited excerpts from the interview are produced below.
Read moreSovereign Debt, Government Myopia, and the Financial Sector
Professors Viral V Acharya and Raghuram G Rajan’s paper, “Sovereign debt, government myopia and the financial sector” won the NSE best paper award presented during the Summer Research Conference 2012 organised by the Centre for Analytical Finance (CAF) at the ISB. In this article, Professor Acharya presents a summary of their award-winning paper.
Read moreContracts and the Financial Crisis
Douglas W Diamond is the Merton H Miller Distinguished Service Professor of Finance at University of Chicago’s Booth School of...
Read moreSME Financing Challenges: Building Alternative Finance Options
A panel discussion on “Alternative Financing Sources for SMEs” was held as part of the symposium on SME Financing Challenges...
Read moreInculcating a Culture of Research
In the second of the two-part interview, Professor Krishnamurthy Subramanian talks to Anjan Thakor, John E Simon Professor of Finance...
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