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Gabelli Asset Management Professor of Finance Miami Herbert Business
School University of
Miami 512B Jenkins Building 5250 University Drive, Coral Gables, FL 33146. akumar @ miami.edu. 305-284-1882. Bio: Alok Kumar is the Gabelli Asset Management Professor of Finance at University
of Miami Herbert Business School. He is also WBS Distinguished Research
Environment Professor (part-time) at the Warwick Business School in the U.K.
and Professorial Research Fellow (part-time) at Deakin University in
Australia. Previously, he was an Associate Professor of Finance at the
McCombs School of Business, University of Texas at Austin, and an Assistant
Professor of Finance at the Mendoza College of Business, University of Notre
Dame. Professor Kumar received his undergraduate degree in Mechanical
Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology at Kharagpur and a PhD in
Economics from Cornell University. He also has advanced degrees in Engineering
Sciences (Robotics) and Management from Dartmouth College and Yale
University, respectively. Professor Kumar's research interests lie at the intersection of finance
and psychology. He is an expert in the area of
Behavioral Finance, and his work has appeared in top Finance, Accounting,
Economics, and Management journals such as Journal of Finance, Journal of
Financial Economics, Review of Financial Studies, Journal of Accounting
Research, Management Science, Games and Economic Behavior, and Review of
Economics and Statistics. His research has also been covered in the Wall
Street Journal, the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Montreal
Gazette, Forbes, and SmartMoney. Professor Kumar
has served as a consultant for several firms, including the Commonfund, Postnieks Capital
Management, Validea, and Bluecrest
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