Professor Ramabhadran S Thirumalai is a leading expert in market microstructure and corporate finance. Currently, he is working on the impact of various regulatory changes on security market pricing, efficiency, and liquidity.

At the Indian School of Business (ISB), he teaches Derivatives, Security Markets, and Fixed Income Securities courses to PGP students and other executive education participants. Before joining ISB, he held visiting assistant professor positions at indiana University’s Kelley School of Business in Bloomington and the University of Pittsburgh’s Joseph M. Katz Graduate School of Business.

Professor Thirumalais work has significant implications for the financial industry, and his research is highly regarded in academia.

Professor holds a PhD in Finance from the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University, Bloomington, an MS in Statistics from the University of South Carolina, Columbia and a BE in Chemical Engineering from Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani.

Some of his widely circulated publications are:

• “Demand Curves For Stocks Do Not Slope Downwards: Evidence Using an Exogenous Supply Shock”, Journal of Banking and Finance
• “Short-Term Return Predictability and Repetitive Institutional Net Order Activity”, Journal of Financial Research
• “What’s in a Vote? The Short- and Long-Run Impact of Dual-Class Equity on IPO Firm Values”, Journal of Accounting and Economics