Gurdip Bakshi

Gurdip Bakshi is the Marvin Wachman Professor of Finance at Temple University's Fox School of Business and Management. He previously held the Dean’s Professorship at the University of Maryland's Smith School of Business. His research focuses on asset pricing, option valuation, term structure of interest rates, commodity markets, and market crashes. He has held editorial roles with journals such as the Review of Financial Studies and Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis.

Bakshi's research interests span stock valuation, international finance, and risk premiums, with recent work exploring hedge fund opaqueness, recovery theorems, and crash probability forecasting. He teaches courses including International Finance, Financial Economics, and Empirical Asset Pricing. His publications appear in top-tier journals like the Journal of Finance, Review of Financial Studies, and Management Science.

His work often addresses market incompleteness, volatility dynamics, and derivative pricing anomalies. He has contributed to understanding default risk, cross-currency models, and the implications of volatility uncertainty. Bakshi’s research bridges theoretical and empirical finance, with a focus on practical applications in financial markets.