Phone: (504) 865-5558
Suman.Banerjee@Tulane.edu
Areas of Interest
Corporate Control, acquisitions and mergers
Corporate
Investment and Financing decisions
Financial and Product Market
inter-linkages and Corporate Behavior
Contracting problems under
Asymmetric Information and Imperfect Verifiability
Energy Finance and
Risk Management
Education
Graduate School of Business, University of Iowa, Iowa City IA
52242
Ph.D. (Finance), July 1999
Thesis Title: Three Essays in
Corporate Finance: Investments, Market Inter-linkages and
Contracting
MA Date: July 1997
Delhi School of Economics, Delhi, India 110007.
M.A. Date: July
1992
Completed Research Papers
"Exotics and electron: Electric power
crises and financial risk management",(with
Professor Tom Noe), Current Draft October 2002.
•À¸ Accepted in Western
Finance Association Meeting 2002
•À¸ Awarded best
paper in risk management WFA 2002
"Crushed
by a rational stampede: Strategic share dumping and shareholder
insurrection", (with
Professor Tom Noe and Professor Mukarram Attari), Current Draft December
2002.
•À¸ Accepted in
RFS-Northwestern Conference 2002
"To pay or not to pay? The dividend dilemma of the liquid firm", (with Paul Spindt and Vladimir Gatchev), Current Draft December 2002.
"Strategic under-investment, managerial entrenchment and ownership structure of a firm", (with Mukarram Attari) Current Draft August 2002.
Work-In-Progress
"What is common between cows
and board members?
Herding: A
Bayesian model of board effectiveness", (with Maximiliano Gonzalez)
Current Draft September 2002.
"Stock processes and
slumping shoulder: Kurtosis and the market
microstructure of daily
stock returns", (with Tom Noe and David Lesmond),
Current Draft October
2002.
"To join e-market or not to join: The dilemma of the retail firm", (with Amiya Chakravarty), Current Draft October 2002.
"Toehold Squeeze, Open-Market Purchases And Bargaining In Corporate Takeovers", (with Tom Noe), Current Draft July 2001.
"Cross holding,
collusion and capital structure In a repeated duopoly framework",
Current Draft September
2002.
Ideas-In-Progress
"Dynamic Model of Managerial
Remuneration in an environment of shareholders'
learning and renegotiation proof
debt", Current Draft July 2002.
"Big banks eating small
banks: Endogenous structure of the U.S. banking industry
in an environment without regulation",
(Preliminary idea)
"Underwriter and Under-pricing: Need to go public and other options", (with Paul Spindt) (Preliminary idea)
"Blend of politic and economics: Understanding the secrets of sovereign debt negotiation", (with John Hund) (Preliminary idea)
"Technological changes, Managerial Learning and Time Varying Risk Premium", Preliminary draft, Current Draft May 2001.
"Private debt: Flexible negotiations vs. Stringent Monitoring", (with Travis Sapp) Current draft November 2000.
Other Work
" Vertical Integration in Electric Utility
Industry", (with Professor Shannon Burchett), (book chapter).
Teaching Experience
Freeman
School of Business, Tulane University (1999-present)
Financial Markets (Fall 1999, 2000, Spring 2002, Fall
2002)
Corporate Risk Management (MBA level, Fall
2002)
Options
(MBA level, Fall 1999)
Financial Management (MBA level, Spring 2001 and Fall
2001)
Energy Options (Entergy and Regular
MBAs in collaboration with Shannon Burchett)
School of Business, The
University of Iowa (1994-99)
Introductory Financial Management (Summer 1997 and Fall
1997)
Principles of Business Microeconomics (Summer
1996)
Other Professional Experiences
Confederation of Indian Industries> (Automotive Component Division)
Job
Title: Junior Economist
Job Description: Part of
the management team involved in developing strategies for exports and
governmental concessions.
Honors
Center For Advance Studies Merit Scholarship, July 1990-92,Delhi School of
Economics, Delhi 110007.
Indian University'sJunior
Research Fellowship, July 1992-93 University of Delhi, Delhi
110007.
Summer
Fellowship 1995 & 1998, The University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA
52242.
Beta Gamma Sigma Honorary Fellowship (1998-99)
J.F. and Jessie Lee Scinsheimer Faculty Fellow,
Tulane University, New Orleans, LA 70118.
Caeserea Award for
best paper in risk management, WFA 2002.
Professional Affiliation
Member of The
Graduate Student Senate,The University of
Iowa, August 1997 - 1999.
Member of the Financial Management
Association International (FMA), August
1997 - present.
Member of the American Finance Association (AFA), July 1998 - present.
Member of the
American Economic Association(AEA), August 1997 - present.
Short Biography
Dr. Suman Banerjee is an assistant professor of finance at the A.
B. Freeman School of Business at Tulane University in New Orleans. His
research interests include continuous time modeling with applications to
areas of corporate finance such as corporate control, mergers and
acquisitions, product market - financial market inter-linkages and
contracting problems.
He teaches the
graduate level options pricing course, corporate risk management and
financial markets (variant of fixed income security analysis) courses at
the undergraduate level. He coordinates with Risk Limited on project
efforts on research and publications. Dr. Banerjee is the author of many
academic articles on energy risk management. Before joining
the Freeman School of Business, Dr. Banerjee obtained his doctorate degree
from the finance department of the University of Iowa. In India he worked
as a junior economist at the Automotive Manufacturers Association (a
subsidiary of the Confederation of Indian Industries). Dr. Banerjee
was honored as a Junior Research Fellow by the Indian University Grants'
Commission in 1993. He has obtained several other merit-based awards in
the course of his academic career.