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Sudheer Chava

Alton M. Costley Chair

Professor; Director, Master of Science in Quantitative & Computational Finance (QCF); Director, Financial Services Innovation Lab

sudheer.chava@scheller.gatech.edu

404-894-4371

Financial Services Innovation Lab

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Academic Areas: Finance

Functional Areas: Finance and Technology, FSIL, QCF

Office: 4125

Biography

Sudheer Chava received his Ph.D. from Cornell University in 2003. Prior to that he has an MBA degree from Indian Institute of Management – Bangalore and worked as a fixed income analyst at a leading investment bank in India. He has held academic positions at University of Houston and Texas A&M University before joining Georgia Tech in 2010.

Dr. Chava has taught a variety of courses at the undergraduate and master’s level including Derivatives, Risk Management, Valuation, Cases in Financial Crisis and Credit Risk Analysis. He has also taught both theoretical and empirical finance courses at the doctoral level.

Dr. Chava’s research interests are in Credit Risk, Banking and Corporate Finance. He has published extensively in all the top journals in Finance including Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Economics, and Review of Financial Studies. His research has won a Ross award for the best paper published in Finance Research Letters in 2008, was a finalist for Brattle Prize for the best paper published in Journal of Finance in 2008 and was nominated for the Goldman Sachs award for the best paper for published in Review of Finance during 2004. Dr. Chava is the recipient of multiple external research grants such as FDIC-CFR Fellowship, Morgan Stanley Research grant and Financial Service Exchange Research grant. His papers have been presented at numerous finance conferences such as AFA, WFA, EFA, FDIC and Federal Reserve Banks and at many universities in the U.S. and abroad.

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Ph.D. from Cornell University

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Year	Title	Journal	Author(s)	Type
2024	Shocked by Bank Funding Shocks: Evidence from Consumer Credit Cards	Review of Financial Studies	Chava, Sudheer Ganduri, Rohan Paradkar, Nikhil Zeng, Linghang	Published Papers	View
Sudheer Chava, Rohan Ganduri, Nikhil Paradkar, Linghang Zeng, Shocked by Bank Funding Shocks: Evidence from Consumer Credit Cards, The Review of Financial Studies, Volume 36, Issue 10, October 2023, Pages 3906–3952, https://doi.org/10.1093/rfs/hhad039
2024	Benchmarking Machine Learning Models to Predict Corporate Bankruptcy	Journal of Credit Risk	Alanis, Emmanuel Chava, Sudheer Shah, Agam	Published Papers	View
Emmanuel Alanis, Sudheer Chava and Agam Shah, “Benchmarking Machine Learning Models to Predict Corporate Bankruptcy”, forthcoming in Journal of Credit Risk
2024	Impact of Corporate Subsidies on Borrowing Costs of Local Governments: Evidence from Municipal Bonds	Review of Finance	Sudheer Chava Malakar, Baridhi Singh, Manpreet	Published Papers
Sudheer Chava, Baridhi Malakar, Manpreet Singh, Impact of Corporate Subsidies on Borrowing Costs of Local Governments: Evidence from Municipal Bonds, Review of Finance, Volume 28, Issue 1, January 2024, Pages 117–161, https://doi.org/10.1093/rof/rfad021
2023	Trillion Dollar Words: A New Financial Dataset, Task & Market Analysis	In Proceedings of the 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)	Shah, Agam Paturi, Suvan Chava, Sudheer	Published Papers
Agam Shah, Suvan Paturi, and Sudheer Chava. 2023. Trillion Dollar Words: A New Financial Dataset, Task & Market Analysis. In Proceedings of the 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers), pages 6664–6679, Toronto, Canada. Association for Computational Linguistics.
2023	Creative Destruction? Impact of E-Commerce on the Retail Sector	Management Science	Chava, Sudheer Oettl, Alexander Singh, Manpreet Zeng, Linghang	Published Papers	View
Chava, Sudheer, Alexander Oettl, Manpreet Singh, and Linghang Zeng. Forthcoming. “Creative Destruction? Impact of E-Commerce on the Retail Sector” Management Science.
2023	Creative Destruction? Impact of E-Commerce on the Retail Sector	Management Science	Chava, Sudheer Oettl, Alexander Singh, Manpreet Zeng, Linghang	Published Papers
Sudheer Chava, Alexander Oettl, Manpreet Singh, Linghang Zeng (2023) Creative Destruction? Impact of E-Commerce on the Retail Sector. Management Science 70(4):2168-2187. https://doi.org/10.1287/mnsc.2023.4795
2023	Credit Default Swaps and Lender Incentives in Bank Debt Renegotiations	Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis	Chakraborty, I. Chava, Sudheer Ganduri, R.	Published Papers
Chakraborty I, Chava S, Ganduri R. Credit Default Swaps and Lender Incentives in Bank Debt Renegotiations. Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis. 2023;58(5):1911-1942. doi:10.1017/S0022109022000709
2023	Does One-Size-Fits-All Minimum Wage Cause Financial Stress to Small Businesses?	Management Science	Chava, Sudheer Oettl, Alexander Singh, Manpreet	Published Papers	View
Chava, Sudheer, Alexander Oettl, and Manpreet Singh. Forthcoming. “Does One-Size-Fits-All Minimum Wage Cause Financial Stress to Small Businesses?” Management Science.
2023	Does a One-Size-Fits-All Minimum Wage Cause Financial Stress for Small Businesses?.	Management Science	Chava, Sudheer Oettl, Alexander Singh, Manpreet	Published Papers
Sudheer Chava, Alexander Oettl, Manpreet Singh (2023) Does a One-Size-Fits-All Minimum Wage Cause Financial Stress for Small Businesses?. Management Science 69(11):7095-7117. https://doi.org/10.1287/mnsc.2022.4620
2022	Tweet Based Reach Aware Temporal Attention Network for NFT Valuation.	Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2022	Sawhney, Ramit Thakkar, Megh Soun, Ritesh Neerkaje, Atula Sharma, Vasu Guhathakurta, Dipanwita Chava, Sudheer	Published Papers
Ramit Sawhney, Megh Thakkar, Ritesh Soun, Atula Neerkaje, Vasu Sharma, Dipanwita Guhathakurta, and Sudheer Chava. 2022. Tweet Based Reach Aware Temporal Attention Network for NFT Valuation. In Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2022, pages 6321–6332, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. Association for Computational Linguistics.
2022	HYPHEN: Hyperbolic Hawkes Attention For Text Streams	60th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 2: Short Papers),	Agarwal, Shivam Sawhney, Ramit Ahuja, Sanchit Soun, Ritesh Chava, Sudheer	Published Papers
Shivam Agarwal, Ramit Sawhney, Sanchit Ahuja, Ritesh Soun, and Sudheer Chava. 2022. HYPHEN: Hyperbolic Hawkes Attention For Text Streams. In Proceedings of the 60th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 2: Short Papers), pages 620–627, Dublin, Ireland. Association for Computational Linguistics.
2022	When FLUE Meets FLANG: Benchmarks and Large Pretrained Language Model for Financial Domain.	Proceedings of the 2022 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing	Shah, Raj Chawla, Kunal Eidnani, Dheeraj Shah, Agam Du, Wendi Chava, Sudheer Raman, Natraj Smiley, Charese Chen, Jiaao Yang, Diyi	Published Papers
Raj Shah, Kunal Chawla, Dheeraj Eidnani, Agam Shah, Wendi Du, Sudheer Chava, Natraj Raman, Charese Smiley, Jiaao Chen, and Diyi Yang. 2022. When FLUE Meets FLANG: Benchmarks and Large Pretrained Language Model for Financial Domain. In Proceedings of the 2022 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, pages 2322–2335, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. Association for Computational Linguistics.
2021	Impact of marketplace lending on consumers’ future borrowing capacities and borrowing outcomes,	Journal of Financial Economics	Chava, Sudheer Ganduri, Rohan Paradkar, Nikhil Zhang, Yafei	Published Papers	View
Sudheer Chava, Rohan Ganduri, Nikhil Paradkar, Yafei Zhang, Impact of marketplace lending on consumers’ future borrowing capacities and borrowing outcomes, Journal of Financial Economics, Volume 142, Issue 3, 2021, Pages 1186-1208, ISSN 0304-405X,
2020	The Economic Impact of Right-to-Work Laws: Evidence from Collective Bargaining Agreements and Corporate Policies	Journal of Financial Economics	Chava, Sudheer Danis, A. Hsu, Alex	Published Papers
Chava, Sudheer, Andras Danis, and Alex Hsu. “The Economic Impact of Right-to-Work Laws: Evidence from Collective Bargaining Agreements and Corporate Policies.” Journal of Financial Economics, Volume 137, Issue 2, August 2020, Pages 451-469.
2020	Does History Repeat Itself? Business Cycle and Industry Returns	Journal of Monetary Economics	Chava, Sudheer Hsu, Alex Zeng, Linghang	Published Papers
Chava, Sudheer, Alex Hsu, and Linghang Zeng. “Does History Repeat Itself? Business Cycle and Industry Returns." Journal of Monetary Economics, Volume 116, December 2020, Pages 201-218.
2020	Financial Constraints, Monetary Policy Shocks, and the Cross-Section of Equity Returns	Review of Financial Studies	Chava, Sudheer Hsu, Alex	Published Papers
Chava, Sudheer and Alex Hsu. “Financial Constraints, Monetary Policy Shocks and the Cross-Section of Equity Returns." Review of Financial Studies, Volume 33, Issue 9, September 2020, Pages 4367–4402.
2020	The economic impact of right-to-work laws: Evidence from collective bargaining agreements and corporate policies,	Journal of Financial Economics	Chava, Sudheer András Danis Alex Hsu	Published Papers
Sudheer Chava, András Danis, Alex Hsu, The economic impact of right-to-work laws: Evidence from collective bargaining agreements and corporate policies, Journal of Financial Economics, Volume 137, Issue 2, 2020, Pages 451-469, ISSN 0304-405X, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jfineco.2020.02.005.
2019	The Economic Impact of Right-to-Work Laws: Evidence from Collective Bargaining Agreements and Corporate Policies	Journal of Financial Economics	Danis, A. Chava, Sudheer Hsu, Alex	Published Papers
The Economic Impact of Right-to-Work Laws: Evidence from Collective Bargaining Agreements and Corporate Policies. Accepted at Journal of Financial Economics. Co-authored with Sudheer Chava and Alex Hsu.
2019	Covenants, Creditors’ Simultaneous Equity Holdings, and Firm Investment Policies	Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis	Chava, Sudheer Wang, R. Zou, H.	Published Papers
Chava S, Wang R, Zou H. Covenants, Creditors’ Simultaneous Equity Holdings, and Firm Investment Policies. Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis. 2019;54(2):481-512. doi:10.1017/S002210901800090X
2015	elated Securities and Equity Market Quality: The Case of CDS.	Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis.	Boehmer, E Chava, Sudheer Tookes, HE	Published Papers
Boehmer E, Chava S, Tookes HE. Related Securities and Equity Market Quality: The Case of CDS. Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis. 2015;50(3):509-541. doi:10.1017/S0022109015000241
2013	Bank Deregulation and Innovation	Journal of Financial Economics	Chava, Sudheer Oettl, Alexander Subramanian, Ajay Subramanian, Krishnamurthy V.	Published Papers	View
Chava, Sudheer, Alexander Oettl, Ajay Subramanian, and Krishnamurthy V. Subramanian. 2013. "Bank Deregulation and Innovation," Journal of Financial Economics, 109, 759-774.

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Associate Editor: Journal of Banking and Finance; Journal of Credit Risk
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