Faculty

Overview

Professor XYZ received his Ph.D. from Olin Business School, Washington University in St Louis. His primary research interests are in the areas of Corporate finance. Specifically, he works on issues related to Financial Intermediation, Managerial compensation, Politics and Finance, Corporate Investments and Corporate Governance. His work has been accepted at various academic conferences including those hosted by the American Finance Association and European Finance Association. Professor Alok has also worked on a consulting project for CitiMortgage which involved identifying the causes of strategic defaults by borrowers. Prior to his Ph.D., he graduated from the ManipalUniversity in Computer Science and Engineering amongst the top of the graduating class.

Education

• Ph D (Economics), University of Virginia 2009
• MA (Economics), University of Virginia 2005
• BA (Mathematics, Economics), Franklin and Marshall College 1999

Research

Published Papers

Jain, Tarun. (2017) "Common tongue: The impact of language on educational performance", Journal of Economic History , 77 (2), 473-510 Jain, Tarun.,Sood, Ashima. (2017) "How does relationship-based governance accommodate new entrants? Evidence from the cycle rickshaw rental market", Journal of Institutional Economics , 13 (3) Jain, Tarun.,Kapoor, Mudit. (2015) "The impact of study groups and roommates on academic performance", Review of Economics and Statistics , 97 (1), 44-54 Jain, Tarun. (2014) "Where there is a will: Fertility behavior and sex bias in large families", Journal of Human Resources , 49 (2), 393-423 Abbink, Klaus.,Dasgupta, Utteeyo.,Gangadharan, Lata.,Jain, Tarun. (2014) "Letting the briber go free: An experiment in mitigating harassment bribes", Journal of Public Economics , 111 (C), 17-28

Books and Monographs

Debnath, Sisir.,Jain, Tarun.,Suryanarayana, Revathy. "Aarogyasri Health Insurance Program", India Public Finance and Policy Report, Oxford University Press

Cases

Jain, Tarun.,Chaudhuri, Kalyani. (2017) "Teacher Incentives", Harvard Business Publishing , 10 Jain, Tarun.,Ray, Rohini. (2016) "Search costs and Market efficiency in Emerging economies", Harvard Business Publishing , 6 Jain, Tarun.,Sarda, Priyanka. (2013) "The Course Allocation Problem", Harvard Business Publishing , 6 Jain, Tarun. (2013) "A Class Divided", Harvard Business Publishing , 6