Amar Gande Ph.D.

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Amar Gande is an Assistant Professor at Southern Methodist University,
where he joined the faculty in 2006. Dr. Gande previously taught at
Vanderbilt University. He holds a B.Tech. in Mechanical Engineering from
the Indian Institute of Management (IIT) Madras (India), a M.B.A. from
the Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Calcutta, and a Ph.D. in
Finance from New York University. Prior to his Ph.D., he worked in
Citibank for four years in the areas of Corporate Banking and
International Trade Finance, primarily in India, and on several
short-term assignments in Singapore and Hong Kong. Dr. Gande has
teaching and research interests in international finance, investment
banking, commercial banking and corporate finance. His research has been
published in top-tier finance journals, such as the Review of Financial
Studies, and the Journal of Financial Economics. He has received awards
for both teaching and research. He co-authored a paper "Bank entry,
competition, and the market for corporate securities underwriting",
which won the 1999 Fama-DFA first prize for best papers published in the
Journal of Financial Economics in the areas of Capital markets and Asset
Pricing. He also co-authored a paper "News Spillovers in the Sovereign
Debt Market," which won the FMA Competitive Best Paper Award in the area
of Fixed Income in 2002 and was subsequently published in the Journal of
Financial Economics in 2005. More recently, his paper "Enhancing
Security Value through Ownership Restrictions: Evidence from a Natural
Experiment," co-authored with Manju Puri won the Addison-Wesley prize
for the best paper published in the Financial Management during
2004-2006 (i.e., Autumn 2004 thru Summer 2006). In addition, his paper
"Bank Incentives, Economic Specialization, and Financial Crises in
Emerging Economies," co-authored with Kose John and Lemma Senbet was
accepted for publication in the Journal of International Money and
Finance. His research papers have been presented in all major finance
conferences and in several universities in the United States. He
received the James A. Webb Jr. Award for excellence in teaching from the
graduating MBA class at Vanderbilt University in 2003 and in 2001, and
was a finalist for this award in 1999. Dr. Gande is also active in
executive education, having taught for several years in the Executive
MBA program at Vanderbilt University.