Sudheer Chava

351J Wehner
Mays Business School
Texas A&M University
College Station
TX 77843-4218 
schava@mays.tamu.edu
ph: (979)845-3656              

Work Experience

Assistant Professor              Texas A&M University                                                   July 2006 -
Assistant Professor              University of Houston                                                    Aug 2003 - June 2006

Education

Ph.D. (Finance)                     Cornell University                                                             2003
M.B.A.                                    Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore                 1997

Research Interests

Corporate Finance, Banking, Credit Risk

Publications

1.      Chava, Sudheer and Robert Jarrow, 2004, “Bankruptcy Prediction with Industry Effects”, Review of Finance, 8(4), 537-569

·         Nominated for Goldman Sachs award for the best paper published in the journal during 2004

·         Financial Management Annual Meetings at Toronto, Canada, 2001

 

2.      Chava, Sudheer and Amiyatosh Purnanandam ,2007,  “Determinants of the Floating-to-Fixed Rate Debt Structure of Firms”,  Journal of Financial Economics, 85, 755-786

·         European Finance Association Annual Meetings at Zurich, 2006

·         Financial Intermediation Research Society Meetings at Shanghai, 2006

 

3.      Chava, Sudheer and  Michael Roberts, 2008, "How Does Financing Impact Investment? The Role of Debt Covenant Violations", Journal of Finance, 63(5), 2085-2121

·         Lead Article in the October 2008 issue of Journal of Finance

·         Finalist for Brattle Prize for the best paper in Corporate Finance published in Journal of Finance during 2008

·         Olin Corporate Finance Conference, 2006

·         Second Annual Penn/NYU Conference on Law and Finance, 2006

·         New York Fed/NYU Stern Salomon Center Conference on Financial Intermediation,

·         American Finance Association Annual Meetings, 2007

 

4.      Chava, Sudheer and Robert Jarrow, 2008, “Modeling Loan Commitments”, Finance Research Letters, 5, 11-20

·         Co-Winner of the Ross Best Paper award

 

5.      Chava, Sudheer, Dmitry Livdan  and Amiyatosh Purnanandam , 2009, “Do Shareholder Rights Affect the Cost of Bank Loans?”, Review of Financial Studies, 22, 2973-3004.

·         European Finance Association Annual Meetings at Mastricht, 2004

·         Featured in Harvard Law School Corporate Governance Blog

 

6.      Chava, Sudheer, Praveen Kumar and Arthur Warga,  2009, "Managerial Moral Hazard and  Bond Covenants",   forthcoming in Review of Financial Studies

·         Western Finance Association Annual Meetings, 2005

 

7.      Chava, Sudheer and Amiyatosh Purnanandam , 2009, "Is Default Risk Negatively Related to Stock Returns?", forthcoming in Review of Financial Studies

·         Utah Winter Finance Conference, 2008

·         Derivatives Research Conference at FDIC, 2008

 

8.      Chava, Sudheer and Amiyatosh Purnanandam , 2009, “CEOs Vs CFOs: Incentives and Corporate Policies", forthcoming in Journal of Financial Economics

 

9.      Chava, Sudheer and Amiyatosh Purnanandam , 2009, “The Effect of Banking Crisis on Bank-Dependent Borrowers”,   forthcoming in Journal of Financial Economics

 

·         This paper won the FDIC-CFR Fellowship award

·         Western Finance Association’s Annual Meetings, 2006

·         42nd Bank Structure Conference at Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, 2006

·         European Finance Association’s Annual Meetings in Zurich, 2006

·         Systemic Risk Conference at Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta

·         FDIC-CFR Conference in 2006

·         Financial Intermediation Research Society’s Meetings in Shanghai, 2006

·         Abstracted in World Bank’s Newsletter Interest Bearing Notes

Working Papers (Revise and Resubmits)

“Modeling the Loss Distribution” (with Catalina Stefanescu and Stuart Turnbull)

·         Honorable Mention for the Best Paper award (Financial Services Section) at the INFORMS annual Meetings

·         Derivatives Research Conference at FDIC

·         INFORMS Annual Meetings

·         BMBF Workshop on Credit Risk Management

 

Referee

Ad-hoc referee for

·         Journal of Finance

·         Review of Financial Studies, 

·         Journal of Financial Intermediation,

·         Journal of Banking and Finance,

·         Journal of Corporate Finance,

·         Quantitative Finance,

·         Applied Stochastic Models in Business and Finance,

·         European Journal of Finance,

·         Journal of Empirical Finance,

·         Financial Management,

·         International Review of Finance,

·         International Journal of Managerial Finance,

·         Finance Research Letters

·         Journal of Credit Risk

 

External Grant Reviewing

 

Teaching

Texas A&M University

·         Fall 2006: Valuation

·         Fall 2007: Valuation

·         Spring 2008: PhD course in Corporate Theory

·         Spring 2009: Sub-prime Crisis

·         Spring 2009: PhD course in Corporate Theory

·         Fall 2009: PhD course in Empirical Methods in Finance

 

University of Houston

·         Options and Futures (Spring 2004, Spring 2005, Spring 2006)

·         Risk Management (Fall 2004, Fall 2005)

 

Awards, Honors and Grants

Best Paper Awards or Nominations

 

 

External Grants or Fellowships

 

Mays Business School


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