Nagpurnanand Prabhala

Dr. Prabhala is the Francis J. Carey, Jr. Endowed Professor in Business and Professor of Finance with the Carey Business School. His primary research interests are in empirical corporate finance and financial intermediation. Prior to joining Carey, Prabhala was Professor and head of the finance area at University of Maryland, College Park. Prabhala also has served as research head at CAFRAL, Reserve Bank of India, and has taught at Indian School of Business, National University of Singapore, and Yale School of Management. His recent research focuses on using spatial methods to understand competition between firms, between actively managed funds, and in the venture capital industry. In addition, he has studied director elections and diversity in boards of directors, the FinTech areas of peer to peer lending and robo-advising, the adoption of FinTech by individuals and banks, and several issues in banking including bank runs, monetary transmission, creditor rights, and bank financing of small firms.

Education

• Ph. D, Finance, Stern School of Business - New York University
• MBA, Finance and Strategy, Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad
• BS, Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi

Honors and distinctions

• Program chair, Midwest Finance Association meetings, (2021- )
• Co-editor, Journal of Financial Services Research, (2019- )
• Associate Editor, Financial Management, (2012- )
• Inaugural Edelweiss Distinguished Visiting Professor, IIM Ahmedabad (2019)
• Keynote speaker, Presidency University Bicentenary (2017)
• Keynote speaker, India Finance Conference (2017)
• Management Science INFORMS best paper award (2015)
• Grant panel, NYU-NSE India Research Initiative, 2014-
• Journal of Financial Economics all-star paper award (2008)
• Best referee award, Journal of Financial Intermediation (2011), Review of Financial Studies (2001)
• Best paper award, Western Finance Association (1999)

Companies

• Professor of Finance and Francis J. Carey, Jr. Endowed Professor of Business The Johns Hopkins University - Carey Business School (2019)
• Professor of Finance Robert H. Smith School of Business, University of Maryland (2015 — 2018)
• Associate Professor of Finance Robert H. Smith School of Business, University of Maryland (2002 — 2015)
• Assistant Professor of Finance Robert H. Smith School of Business (1999 — 2002)
• Assistant Professor Yale School of Management (1994 — 1999)