Vikram Nanda

Dr. Vikram Nanda is the O.P. Jindal Distinguished Chair Professor of Finance at the Naveen Jindal School of Management, University of Texas at Dallas. He holds a PhD in Finance from the University of Chicago, MBA from Yale University, and a Bachelor of Technology from Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur. His research focuses on corporate finance, financial institutions, and behavioral finance, with emphasis on topics like hedge fund strategies, managerial overconfidence, and corruption's economic impacts.

Key research highlights include studies on multi-market trading (best paper award), litigation risk effects on contracting, and cryptocurrency bubble detection. He has served on editorial boards for Journal of Financial Research and Financial Letters, and contributed to non-academic publications like Barron’s.

His work spans 30+ years across top-tier institutions including USC, University of Michigan, and Georgia Tech. Current research explores AI's role in investment management, gender diversity in executive roles, and legal frameworks affecting corporate behavior. Awards include Smith Breeden Prize nominations and Q-Group research grants.

• Educations: PhD (Chicago), MBA (Yale), B.Tech (IIT Kanpur)
• Affiliations: Financial Intermediation Research Society, European Finance Association
• Labs/Teams: Behavioral Finance Research Group, Corporate Governance Initiative

He advises on strategic financial decisions and has authored/coauthored over 50 publications. Recent work examines environmental, social, and governance (ESG) investment strategies and the impact of trade secret laws on financial opacity.