Dr. Murugappa (Murgie) Krishnan

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Curriculum Vitae

EDUCATION
1987 Ph.D., The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
1981 M.B.A. in Finance/Quantitative Methods IIM-A, India
1979 B.Com., Loyola College, University of Madras, India, 1979

PRIOR POSITIONS HELD
At Purdue University, Carnegie-Mellon, University of Minnesota, Rutgers University, CUNY-Baruch, Yeshiva University, Hofstra, William Paterson, and Radford University.

TEACHING INTERESTS AND EXPERIENCE
Undergraduate – Intermediate financial accounting, introductory financial accounting, cost and managerial accounting, advanced financial accounting. Introductory finance, international finance (senior elective).
MS, Accounting – Contemporary topics in accounting, financial and managerial accounting (regular, professional master’s, online)
MBA – Financial accounting (core course), financial and managerial accounting (core course), intermediate financial accounting. Financial statement analysis. (Regular, professional master’s, online).
Executive MBA (international) – Financial accounting (core course), comparative international reporting; energy sector reporting issues.
Ph.D. – Seminar in asset pricing under perfect and imperfect competition, disclosure policy, and intermediation (taken by students in Accounting, Finance and Economics).

RESEARCH INTERESTS
Disclosure in financial markets; asset pricing with private information and imperfect competition; Indian financial markets; industrial organization; shop-floor productivity.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
“Preemptive Investment and Resalable Capacity” (with Lars-Hendrik Röller), RAND Journal of Economics, Winter 1993, pp. 479-502.
“Insider Trading and Asset Pricing in an Imperfectly Competitive Multi-Security Market” (with Jordi Caballé), Econometrica, Vol. 62, No. 3 (May 1994), pp. 695-704.
“To Believe or Not to Believe” (with Utpal Bhattacharya), Journal of Financial Markets (1999). pp. 69-98.
“Prices As Aggregators Of Private Information: Evidence From S&P 500 Futures Data” (with Jin-Wan Cho). Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis. Vol 35, No. 1, March 2000, pp. 111-126.
“Who Herds? Who Doesn’t? Estimates of Herding in Analysts’ Earnings Forecasts” with Rong Huang, John Shon and Ping Zhou), Contemporary Accounting Research, Volume 34, Issue 1, Spring 2017, Pages 374–399.
“Stock Price Impact of Diversity in Investor Beliefs,” Applied Economics Letters, March 2019, Pages 1466-4291, https://doi.org/10.1080/13504851.2019.1584361.