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
Journal of Financial Economics, forthcoming
Media Coverage: Oxford Business Law Blog
Working Papers
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
Moskowitz Prize for Best Paper in Sustainable and Responsible Investing, 2020
Conferences: 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
Media Coverage: ProMarket (Stigler Center at Chicago Booth), International Pensions Europe
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)
Conferences: MFA 2021*
(*) to be presented