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


CV

Published and Accepted Papers

Does personal liability deter individuals from serving as independent directors? with Kasper Nielsen

Working Papers

Roads and Loans with Sumit Agarwal and Abhiroop Mukherjee

  • Revise & Resubmit, Review of Financial Studies

  • Conferences: Bocconi-RFS Banking Conference 2019, SFS Cavalcade Asia-Pacific 2018, ISB Summer Conference 2018, CICF 2018, ABFER 2018

  • Media Coverage: Forbes, World Bank, Financial Express


Business Group Spillovers with Daniel Wolfenzon

  • Revise & Resubmit, Review of Financial Studies

  • Conferences: Minnesota Corporate Finance Conference 2020, EFA 2019, FIRS 2019, CICF 2019, FMA 2018, SFS Cavalcade Asia-Pacific 2017


The Real Effects of Environmental Activist Investing with Kunal Sachdeva and Varun Sharma

  • 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: AFA 2022*, European Investment Forum (Cambridge), SFS Cavalcade 2021, 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


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: 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)


Winds of Change: Gender Quota on Boards in the face of Patriarchy with Kasper Nielsen

  • Conferences: FMA 2021*, Corporate Finance Day (Erasmus)*, MFA 2021, Eastern FA 2021, CICF 2021




(*) to be presented