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Vikram Nanda
Professor of Finance
Russell B. and Nancy H. McDonough Chair in Finance

Academic Area(s):Finance
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Phone:404-385-8156
Fax:404-894-6030
Address:800 West Peachtree Street NW
Atlanta, Georgia 30308
Suite:408
Office:4131
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Dr. Vikram K. Nanda is the Russell B. and Nancy H. McDonough Chair in Finance. Before joining Georgia Tech in 2008, he held academic positions at Arizona State University, University of Michigan and University of Southern California.

Professor Nanda has a broad range of research interests in a variety of areas and he has published several scholarly articles in journals such as the Journal of Finance, Review of Financial Studies, and Journal of Financial Economics. His work on multi-market trading received the best paper award at the market microstructure symposium sponsored by WFA-RFS-NYSE (1991). His articles at the Journal of Finance have been nominated twice for the Smith Breeden prize (1993, 1995) and he has received research awards from the Q-Group for his work on mutual funds and hedge funds. He has regularly served on the program committees for meetings of the Western Finance Association, the European Finance Association and the Financial Intermediation Research Society.

He is the co-author of a book on financial strategy, Finance for Strategic Decision-Making with M.P. Narayanan, 2004, John Wiley & Sons, Inc. He has also contributed articles to non-academic publications such as Barron’s.
Areas of Specialization
Corporate Finance
Financial Intermediation
Market Microstructure
Education
PhD, University of Chicago
MBA, Yale University
B-Tech, IIT-Kanpur

Featured Publications and Papers
  • Are Incentive Contracts Rigged By Powerful CEOs? with Adair Morse and Amit Seru (Forthcoming, Journal of Finance) 
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  • Why Do Aggressive Payout Policies Reduce Fund Discounts: Is It Performance or Investor Naiveté? with Jay Wang (forthcoming, Journal of Financial Intermediation) 
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  • How do Defaults Affect Lead Arranger Reputation in the Loan Syndication Market? with Radhakrishnan Gopalan and Vijay Yerramilli (Forthcoming, Journal of Finance) 
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  • On Tournament Behavior in Hedge Funds: High Water Marks, Managerial Horizon, and the Backfilling Bias, with George Aragon (Forthcoming, Review of Financial Studies) 
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  • "Trade Credit, Relationship-specific Investment, and Product-market Power" with Nishant Dass and Jayant R. Kale 
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  • "Leaving Money on the Table: A Theory of Private Equity Fund Returns" with Robert Marquez and M. Deniz Yavuz 
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  • Do Institutions Prefer High Value Acquirers? An Analysis of Trading in Stock-Financed Acquisitions Timothy R. Burch and Sabatino Silveri (forthcoming JFR) 
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  • Teams in Fund Management: Are They Teams in Name Only? with Nishant Dass and Qinghai Wang 
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  • Conflicts of Interest and Financial Contracts: Evidence from Syndicated Loans∗ Nishant Dass and Qinghai Wang 
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  • "Board Expertise: Do Directors from Related Industries Help Bridge the Information Gap?" with Nishant Dass, Omesh Kini, Bunyamin Onal and Jun Wang 
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