ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT
Assistant
Professor of Finance, July 2007-present
Loyola
University Chicago, Graduate School of Business
RESEARCH/TEACHING INTERESTS
Investments: Mutual funds; Private equity and
venture capital
Corporate Finance: IPOs; Mergers and
acquisitions
Behavioral Finance
Information Economics
PUBLICATIONS
“Are
there Real Effects of Licensing on Academic Research? A Life Cycle View”,
2007.
(with Marie Thursby
(Georgia Institute of Technology), Jerry Thursby (Georgia
Institute of Technology))
Journal of Economic Behavior and
Organization, Vol. 63, 577-598; NBER WP
#11497; funded by National Science
Foundation (SES 0094573), Alan and Mildred Peterson
Foundation and the Marion Ewing Kauffman
Foundation
“Mars-Venus Marriages: Culture and Cross-border M&A”,
2008.
(with Rajesh Chakrabarti
(Indian School of Business), Narayanan Jayaraman
(Georgia Institute of
Technology)) Journal of International Business Studies, Vol. 40, 216–236.
WORKING PAPERS
(with Susan Chaplinsky
(Darden, University of Virginia)
“Geography,
Informal Information Flows and Mutual Fund Investments”
(with Richard Fu (SJSU))
American Finance Association (AFA)
Annual Meeting 2008 (New Orleans); CRSP Forum 2010
“When Active Fund Managers Deviate from their Peers: The
Impact on Performance”
American Finance Association (AFA) Annual
Meeting 2009 (San Francisco); CRSP Forum 2008
“What Drives Home Bias in
Corporate Investments? Evidence from U.S. domestic M&A”
(with Cheol Eun (Georgia Institute of Technology))
HONORS AND AWARDS
Research Grant, Batten Institute for
Entrepreneurship and Innovation (2010-2011)
SBA Faculty Support Grant for Research
and Innovations in Teaching (2009-2010, 2008-2009)
Loyola University Chicago, Summer Research Stipend (2008-2010)
National Science Foundation (NSF)
IGERT Graduate Associate (2004-2006)
American Finance
Association (AFA) Student Travel Award (2006)
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) Fellowship (2003)
Best Graduating
Student, Indian Institute of Technology (2002)
IIT Joint Entrance Examination All India Rank in top 0.5% (more than
300,000 candidates)
West Bengal Joint Entrance Examination All India Rank in top 0.1%
(more than 50,000 candidates)
CONFERENCES AND PRESENTATIONS
“When Active Fund Managers Deviate from their
Peers: The Impact on Performance”
American Finance
Association (AFA) Annual Meeting 2009 (San Francisco); CRSP Forum 2008;
DePaul University Brownbag 2010
“The
Changing Face of Venture Capital”, Darden, University of Virginia
“Informal
Information Networks: The Impact on Performance of Mutual Fund Portfolios”
American Finance Association, January 2008 (New Orleans, LA), Loyola
University Chicago, Clemson University, California State University-
Fullerton, University of Hawaii
“Home
Bias in Corporate Investments: Evidence from U.S. domestic M&A”
EFM-
Behavioral Finance Symposium, April 2006 (Durham, UK), Georgia State
University
Finance
Seminar Series, March 2006 (Atlanta, GA), Georgia Institute of Technology
Seminar, May 2005
(Atlanta, GA)
“Are there Real Effects of Licensing on Academic Research? A Life Cycle
View”
National Bureau of Economic Research Conference, April 2005 (Santa
Fe, NM)
National Bureau of Economic Research, Summer
Institute 2004 (Cambridge, MA)
COURSES TAUGHT
FINC 332 – Business Finance (Undergraduate)
FINC 335 – Investments (Undergraduate)
FINC 452 – Investment Management (Graduate)
FINC 342 – Advanced Business Finance
(Undergraduate)
CONTACT
1
E Pearson St, 550, Chicago, IL 60611
Email: sguptamukherjee@luc.edu
Ph (o): (312) 915 6071
