Anup Agrawal

Anup Agrawal
Professor of Finance and William A. Powell, Jr. Chair of Finance and Banking
Economics, Finance & Legal Studies
Office: 252 Alston Hall, 205-348-8970
Specialty Areas:
Corporate Finance and Investments, Corporate Control and Governance, Executive Compensation, Insider Trading, Corporate Fraud, Security Analysts, Market Efficiency
Education:
University of Bombay (B. Comm.), Xavier Institute, Jamshedpur (M.B.A.), University of Pittsburgh (Ph.D.).
Honors, Achievements and Affiliations:

Dr. Agrawal has published ten papers in the Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Economics, Journal of Business, and Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis; four papers in the Journal of Law and Economics; and published in Economic Theory, Financial Management, Journal of Corporate Finance, and Journal of International Money and Finance. He has presented his research at seminars and conferences around the world. His research has received over 1,800 citations in academic papers and textbooks. He is ranked among the top one percent of all authors on the Social Science Research Network. His research has also been the subject of feature stories in Financial Times Deutschland and Wall Street Journal Online. He has been a visiting faculty member at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Agrawal is a member of the Editorial Boards of the Journal of Corporate Finance, the Journal of Financial Research andĀ four other academic journals. He is a Director of the Financial Management Association during 2009-2011, and co-chaired the Corporate Finance Track at the 2004 FMA annual meeting. Before coming to academia, he worked for two years with an international management consulting firm.

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