Dr. Murugappa (Murgie) Krishnan

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Curriculum Vitae

EDUCATION
1987 Ph.D., The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
1981 M.B.A. in Finance/Quantitative Methods IIM-A, India
1979 B.Com., Loyola College, University of Madras, India, 1979

PRIOR POSITIONS HELD
At Purdue University, Carnegie-Mellon, University of Minnesota, Rutgers University, CUNY-Baruch, Yeshiva University, Hofstra, William Paterson, and Radford University.

TEACHING INTERESTS AND EXPERIENCE
Undergraduate – Intermediate financial accounting, introductory financial accounting, cost and managerial accounting, advanced financial accounting. Introductory finance, international finance (senior elective).
MS, Accounting 鈥� Contemporary topics in accounting, financial and managerial accounting (regular, professional master鈥檚, online)
MBA – Financial accounting (core course), financial and managerial accounting (core course), intermediate financial accounting. Financial statement analysis. (Regular, professional master鈥檚, online).
Executive MBA (international) – Financial accounting (core course), comparative international reporting; energy sector reporting issues.
Ph.D. – Seminar in asset pricing under perfect and imperfect competition, disclosure policy, and intermediation (taken by students in Accounting, Finance and Economics).

RESEARCH INTERESTS
Disclosure in financial markets; asset pricing with private information and imperfect competition; Indian financial markets; industrial organization; shop-floor productivity.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
“” (with Lars-Hendrik R脙露ller), RAND Journal of Economics, Winter 1993, pp. 479-502.
“, Econometrica, Vol. 62, No. 3 (May 1994), pp. 695-704.
“” (with Utpal Bhattacharya), Journal of Financial Markets (1999). pp. 69-98.
“” (with Jin-Wan Cho). Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis. Vol 35, No. 1, March 2000, pp. 111-126.
鈥淲ho Herds? Who Doesn鈥檛? Estimates of Herding in Analysts鈥� Earnings Forecasts鈥� with Rong Huang, John Shon and Ping Zhou), Contemporary Accounting Research, Volume 34, Issue 1, Spring 2017, Pages 374鈥�399.
鈥淪tock Price Impact of Diversity in Investor Beliefs,鈥� Applied Economics Letters, March 2019, Pages 1466-4291, https://doi.org/10.1080/13504851.2019.1584361.