财务金融系系列讲座之162期

时间：2015年3月23日（周一）13:30　　　　　　　

地点：史带楼302室

主持人：Dr. Fan YU　 Department of Finance, School of Management, Fudan University　

主题一： Do Superstitious Traders Lose Money?

主题二： How To Develop a Research Philosophy?

演讲者：Prof. Utpal Bhattacharya

Associate Professor of Finance (Tenured), Indiana University                                                        

Visiting Professor of Finance, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

简介： Professor Bhattacharya received his Bachelors in Mechanical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, in 1980; an M.B.A. from the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, in 1982; and his Ph.D. in Finance from Columbia University in 1990.He joined HKUST in 2014.

Professor Bhattacharya’s research is on the dark side of finance. He has published in all the top-tier finance journals, and many of the top-tier accounting and economics journals. His research has been featured more than a hundred times in the U.S. media and in the foreign media (including four feature stories in the Economist.) He has been invited to present his research in more than 170 institutions in 24 countries in 5 continents. He wrote a report for and served as a member of the "Task Force to Modernize Securities Regulation in Canada" in 2006. He and his report were featured in a Canadian Broadcasting Corporation investigative story titled "Who Is Guarding Your Money." Legislators in Ontario, Canada, discussed this report. On May 16, 2012, the Securities and Exchange Commission of the U.S. invited him to present the findings of his Journal of Finance paper that documents cross-subsidies in mutual fund families. He is now an official whistleblower.

Professor Bhattacharya is also an excellent teacher. He was awarded the Trustee Teaching Award by Indiana University twice. He teaches in a different country every summer. He has taught at top universities in Argentina, Brazil, China, France, Germany, Holland, India, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Mexico, New Zealand, Portugal, Singapore, Slovenia, South Korea, Russia, Taiwan and Turkey. In the U.S., he has been a visiting faculty at Chicago, Duke and MIT. His goal is to spread the gospel of honest finance to every corner of the globe.

财务金融系

2015年3月18日