Uday Rajan

Jack D. Sparks-Whirlpool Corporation Research Professor of Business Administration. Chair and Professor of Finance and Real Estate at Stephen M. Ross School of Business

Biography

Stephen M. Ross School of Business

Uday Rajan's research focuses on informational frictions such as adverse selection and moral hazard and their effect on market transactions, with recent work on the role of credit ratings in the financial markets and on bank regulation. Uday was a Vice President of Fixed Income Research at Drexel Burnham Lambert in the late 1980s, and received a PhD in Economics from Stanford University in 1995. His research has been published in the American Economic Review, Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Economics and Review of Financial Studies. He has received the GSAM award for the best paper in the Review of Finance and the NYSE award for the best paper on equity trading at the WFA meetings. He is an Editor of the Review of Corporate Finance Studies and an Associate Editor of the Journal of Finance, and has been an editorial review board member at Marketing Science and an Associate Editor at Management Science. He is a former President of the Finance Theory Group. He has received MBA teaching awards at the Ross School and at Carnegie Mellon, and a PhD teaching award at the Ross School.

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Books

Adverse Selection AuthorsChristine Parlour, Uday Rajan Published Date2010 Source Wiley Pages: 13-15 Encyclopaedia of Quantitative Finance Rama Cont

Papers

  • Adverse Selection AuthorsChristine Parlour, Uday Rajan Published Date2010 Source Wiley Pages: 13-15 Encyclopaedia of Quantitative Finance Rama Cont

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