Assistant Professor of Finance
London Business School
Regent's Park, London NW1 4SA, UK
Email: lnaaraayanan@london.edu
Research Interests: Corporate Governance; Entrepreneurship; Financial Intermediation
Published and Accepted Papers
Review of Financial Studies, Forthcoming
Review of Financial Studies 36(4), April 2023, 1508-1547
Media Coverage: Forbes, World Bank, Financial Express
Journal of Financial Economics 140(2), May 2021, 621-643
Media Coverage: Oxford Business Law Blog
Working Papers
Revise & Resubmit, Review of Financial Studies
International Center for Pension Management Research Award, 2022
Best Paper, European Investment Forum (Cambridge), 2021
Best Paper in Corporate Finance and Financial Institutions at the FMA European Conference, 2021
Moskowitz Prize for Best Paper in Sustainable and Responsible Investing, 2020
Conferences: FIRS 2022, UC Santa Barbara Workshop in Environmental and Resource Economics, Oklahoma Energy Finance Conference 2022, AFA 2022, European Investment Forum (Cambridge), SFS Cavalcade 2021, MIT Golub Center Conference, Weinberg Center - Corporate Governance Symposium 2021, MFA 2021, Political Economy of Finance Conference 2020 (Chicago Booth), EFA 2020, Texas Finance Festival 2020, UBC Winter Finance Conference 2020, European Winter Finance Conference 2020, World Symposium on Investment Research 2020 (Zurich), Mid-Atlantic Research Conference in Finance 2020 (MARC), ISB Summer Conference 2020, NFA 2020, GRASFI 2020 (Columbia University), ADBI-JBF-SMU Green and Ethical Finance Conference
Media Coverage: Financial Times, International Pensions Europe, ProMarket (Stigler Center at Chicago Booth)
Women's Inheritance Rights and Entrepreneurship Gender Gap
WFA Best Student Paper Award (USC Marshall School of Business Trefftzs Award), 2019
WFA Cubist Systematic Strategies Ph.D. Candidate Award for Outstanding Research, 2019
LBS Wheeler Institute Award, 2019
CICF Best Paper Award, 2019
Conferences: NBER-ISB Conference 2022, BSE Summer Forum, EFA 2020, WFA 2019, SFS Cavalcade North America, FIRS 2019, 2019 Colorado Finance Summit, 19th REER Conference, FMA 2019, NFA 2019, CICF 2019, USC PhD Conference in Finance, LBS Trans-Atlantic Doctoral Conference
Seminars: Arizona State University (W.P Carey), Boston College (Carroll), Harvard Business School, INSEAD, London Business School, Notre Dame (Mendoza), University of Michigan (Ross), University of Rochester (Simon), University of Texas Dallas (Naveen Jindal), European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD)
Conferences: Strategy & the Business Environment Conference (Georgetown)*, CEPR Political Economy, ISB Summer Research Conference 2022, FMA (Atlanta), Emerging Scholars in Banking and Finance Conference, Craig Holden Memorial Finance Conference
Conferences: FIRS 2023*, SFS Cavalcade 2023*, NBER Summer Institute (Real Estate), AREUEA (New Orleans), UNC Real Estate Research Symposium, OCC Symposium on Climate Risk in Banking and Finance, KWC/SNEE Conference on Sustainable Finance, HEC-HKUST Sustainable Finance Seminar, FMA (Atlanta), Urban Economics Association, Conference on Financial Economics and Accounting
Conferences: Financial Markets and Corporate Governance 2022, NSE-NYU India Conference, New Zealand Finance Meeting 2021, FMA 2021 (Denver), Corporate Finance Day (Erasmus), MFA 2021, Eastern FA 2021, CICF 2021
Works-in-Progress
Rural roads, small business creation, and the gender-gap in entrepreneurship with Sumit Agarwal, Pulak Ghosh, and Abhiroop Mukherjee
Conferences: DIW Finance and Development 2023*, Nova Entrepreneurship and Innovation Conference, WEFIDEV Webinar, Junior Entrepreneurial Finance and Innovation Workshop
Conferences: Clemson University ESG Conference (Hayek), FMA Europe 2022, CICF 2022 FMA Annual Meetings (Denver) 2021, Vanguard, International Monetary Fund
(*) to be presented