Associate Professor of Finance

University of Miami

E-mail: i.chakraborty@miami.edu       Phone: (305) 284-9489              
​Office: 512A Jenkins
Curriculum Vitae
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​Education  

• Ph.D. in Finance, The Wharton School, 2005 -- Dec 2010. 
• M.S. EECS., Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), 2003. 
• B.Tech. CSE., IIT Guwahati, 2001.  (President of India Gold Medalist.)​

Publications

1. Credit Default Swaps and Lender Incentives in Renegotiations of Bank Debt, with Sudheer Chava and Rohan Ganduri Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, forthcoming.
2. Financial Statement Complexity and Bank Lending, with Andrew Leone, Miguel Minutti-Meza, and Matthew Phillips The Accounting Review, forthcoming.
3. Monetary Stimulus and Bank Lending, with Itay Goldstein and Andrew MacKinlay Journal of Financial Economics, 2020.
4. Housing Price Booms and Crowding-Out Effects in Bank Lending, with Itay Goldstein and Andrew MacKinlay Review of Financial Studies, 2018.
5. Managing Performance Signals Through Delay: Evidence from Venture Capital, with Michael Ewens Management Science, 2018.
6. Income Inequality, Tax Policy, and Economic Growth, with Siddhartha Biswas and Rong Hai Economic Journal, 2017.
7. The Real Effects of Financial (Dis)integration, with Rong Hai, Hans Holter, and Serhiy Stepanchuk Journal of Monetary Economics, 2017.
8. Marriage Stability, Taxation and Aggregate Labor Supply, with Hans Holter and Serhiy Stepanchuk Journal of Monetary Economics, 2015. 
9. Does Shareholder Coordination Matter? Evidence from Private Placements, with Nickolay Gantchev Journal of Financial Economics, 2013.​

Working Papers

• The Real Effects of Bank Branching: Evidence from India, with Apoorva Javadekar and Rodney Ramcharan 
• Returns to Community Lending, with Vidhi Chhaochharia, Rong Hai, and Prithu Vatsa.​
• Financial Integration through Production Networks, with Apoorva Javadekar, Saketh Chityala, and Rodney Ramcharan 
• The Consequences of Fund-level Liquidity Requirements, with Elia Ferracutti,  John Heater​, and Matt Phillips

Media Coverage
​VoxEU   WSJ  Washington Post  Business Insider  Freakonomics The Economist  VoxEU  Reuters  Financial Times Yahoo! News Fidelity SiriusXM Business Radio

​Patents
US6807159, EP1202495, JP3721115, DE60110184, CN1319298, and AT293859; assigned to IBM Corp. (Managing power consumption in Bluetooth networks).

Industry Experience

• Citigroup Global Markets Inc., New York, NY Feb 05–July 05 Treasury and Relative Value Groups.
• Citadel Investment Group, Chicago, IL June 03–Feb 05 Financial Instruments and Credit Groups.​

Selected Awards

• Top 40 under 40 Business School Professor, Poets & Quants, 2018.
• Excellence in Teaching Award, Master of Science in Finance, University of Miami, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021.
• Douglas D. Evanoff Best Paper Award, The Chicago Financial Institutions Conference, 2016.
• Marshall Blume Award in Financial Research (Best Working Paper), The Wharton School, 2013.
• Shmuel Kandel Award (Outstanding Ph.D. Student in Financial Economics), Utah Winter Finance, 2010.
• Morgan Stanley Research Award, The Wharton School 2009. 
• MIT Ideas Competition, 3rd place (information system for Salvation Army), 2001.
• President of India Gold Medal (for the highest GPA among all graduating UG students) at IIT Guwahati, 2001.
• National Talent Scholar (500 students nationwide awarded by National Council of Educational Research and Training), India, 1995.