Manju Puri

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Manju Puri is an economist who currently works as the J. B. Fuqua Professor of Finance at the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University.[1]

She is an editor at the Review of Financial Studies[2] and currently the director of the American Finance Association.[3]

Puri is director of the Center for Financial Research at the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC).[4] In 2015–2016, she was on the Federal Reserve Board Model Validation Council.[5]

Career and education[edit]

Puri has a Ph.D. in finance from New York University and holds an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management in Ahmedabad.[6] Before her career as an academic, she was a corporate banking executive at HSBC in London and Mumbai.

She started her academic career as an assistant professor at Stanford University and was promoted to associate professor in 2000. She left Stanford in 2003 to join Duke University.

She has held visiting positions at the Reserve Bank of India (2018–2019), the University of Amsterdam (2005), the Federal Reserve Bank of New York (2004 and 2012) and Yale University (1997-98).[7]

Research[edit]

Puri's research focuses on empirical corporate finance, financial intermediation, banking, venture capital and entrepreneurship. She has published in the Journal of Finance,[8] the Review of Financial Studies,[9] the Journal of Financial Economics[10] and the American Economic Review.[11]

Her paper "Deposit Inflows and Outflows in Failing Banks: The Role of Deposit Insurance"[12] (with Chris Martin and Alexander Brenden Ufier) has won the best paper award from Financial Asset Management association.[13]

Her works have been cited more than 14000 times according to Google Scholar.[14]

Her research has been quoted in The New York Times,[15][16] Forbes,[17] CNBC,[18] Fox Business[19] and The Atlantic.[20]

Selected bibliography[edit]

  • Hellmann, Thomas; Puri, Manju (2002). "Venture Capital and the Professionalization of Start-Up Firms: Empirical Evidence". The Journal of Finance. 57 (1): 169–197.
  • Hellmann, Thomas; Puri, Manju (2000-10-01). "The Interaction between Product Market and Financing Strategy: The Role of Venture Capital". The Review of Financial Studies. 13 (4): 959–984.
  • Iyer, Rajkamal; Puri, Manju (2012/06). "Understanding Bank Runs: The Importance of Depositor-Bank Relationships and Networks". American Economic Review. 102 (4): 1414–1445.
  • Graham, John R.; Harvey, Campbell R.; Puri, Manju (2013-07-01). "Managerial attitudes and corporate actions". Journal of Financial Economics. 109 (1): 103–121.

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Manju Puri | Duke's Fuqua School of Business". www.fuqua.duke.edu. Retrieved 2020-04-05.
  2. ^ "Editorial Team – The Review of Financial Studies". 13 June 2015. Retrieved 2020-04-05.
  3. ^ "AFA 2019 Election Results". The American Finance Association. Retrieved 2020-04-05.
  4. ^ "FDIC Center For Financial Research". www.fdic.gov. Retrieved 2020-04-05.
  5. ^ "FRB: Model Validation Council". 2016-04-27. Archived from the original on 2016-04-27. Retrieved 2020-04-05.
  6. ^ "Manju Puri | Duke's Fuqua School of Business". www.fuqua.duke.edu. Retrieved 2020-04-05.
  7. ^ "CV Manju Puri" (PDF).
  8. ^ Hellmann, Thomas; Puri, Manju (2002). "Venture Capital and the Professionalization of Start-Up Firms: Empirical Evidence". The Journal of Finance. 57 (1): 169–197. doi:10.1111/1540-6261.00419. ISSN 1540-6261.
  9. ^ Hellmann, Thomas; Puri, Manju (2000-10-01). "The Interaction between Product Market and Financing Strategy: The Role of Venture Capital". The Review of Financial Studies. 13 (4): 959–984. doi:10.1093/rfs/13.4.959. ISSN 0893-9454.
  10. ^ Graham, John R.; Harvey, Campbell R.; Puri, Manju (2013-07-01). "Managerial attitudes and corporate actions". Journal of Financial Economics. 109 (1): 103–121. doi:10.1016/j.jfineco.2013.01.010. ISSN 0304-405X.
  11. ^ Iyer, Rajkamal; Puri, Manju (2012). "Understanding Bank Runs: The Importance of Depositor-Bank Relationships and Networks". American Economic Review. 102 (4): 1414–1445. doi:10.1257/aer.102.4.1414. hdl:1721.1/75113. ISSN 0002-8282. S2CID 55108029.
  12. ^ Martin, Christopher; Puri, Manju; Ufier, Alexander (2018). "Deposit Inflows and Outflows in Failing Banks: The Role of Deposit Insurance". National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series. Cambridge, MA. doi:10.3386/w24589. S2CID 28638715.
  13. ^ "Conference Awards". www.fma.org. Retrieved 2020-04-05.
  14. ^ "Manju Puri - Google Scholar Citations". scholar.google.com. Retrieved 2020-04-05.
  15. ^ Tugend, Alina (2011-09-23). "Lean Toward the Sunny Side, but Don't Overdo It". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2020-04-05.
  16. ^ Sharot, Tali (2011-05-14). "Opinion | Major Delusions". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2020-04-05.
  17. ^ Zitelmann, Rainer. "Studies Prove That Optimists Live Longer And Healthier Lives; The Superrich Are Superoptimists". Forbes. Retrieved 2020-04-05.
  18. ^ "Want better returns? Hire a good-looking CEO". CNBC. 2014-01-03. Retrieved 2020-04-05.
  19. ^ Williams, Joe (2019-06-18). "Credit scores can be predicted by your online behavior, study claims". FOXBusiness. Retrieved 2020-04-05.
  20. ^ Thompson, Derek (2014-01-11). "The Financial Benefits of Being Beautiful". The Atlantic. Retrieved 2020-04-05.