Radhakrishnan Gopalan

 

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Radhakrishnan Gopalan

Campus Box 1133

St. Louis, MO 63130-4899

Ph: (314) 935-9196

E-mail: gopalan@wustl.edu

I am an Assistant Professor in the Olin School of Business at Washington University in St. Louis. I research topics in corporate finance. I do both theory and empirical research and am interested in a wide array of topics. Scroll down for the latest version of my papers. I welcome any comments you may have at gopalan@wustl.edu.

I coordinate the Finance Seminar Series at the Finance Department at the Olin Business School. You can access the latest schedule here.

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Papers on Firm's Ownership Choice

 

1)  “The Entrepreneur's Choice Between Private and Public Ownership” (joint with Arnoud W. A. Boot and Anjan Thakor). (Journal of Finance 61(2), 803-836.)

 

2) “Market Liquidity, Investor Participation and Managerial Autonomy: Why do Firms Go Private?” (joint with Arnoud W.A. Boot and Anjan Thakor) (Journal of Finance 63 (4), 2013-2059 )

 

3) “Stock Market Liberalization and the Decision to go Public”, joint with Todd Gormley (To be presented at the 2009 AFA Meetings at San Fransisco).

 

Papers on Internal Capital Markets

 

4)  “Affiliated Firms and Financial Support: Evidence from Indian Business Groups”, joint with Vikram Nanda and Amit Seru  (Journal of Financial Economics 86 (3), 759-795)

 

5) “Do Business Groups Use Dividends to Fund Investments?” joint with Vikram Nanda and Amit Seru.  (Under Revision for Resubmission)

 

 6) "Conglomerates and Industry Distress" joint with Kanghzhen Xie.

 

Papers on Corporate Governance

 

7) “Institutional Stock Sales and Takeovers: The Disciplinary Role of Voting With Your Feet”

8) “Strategic Flexibility and the Optimality of Pay-for-luck” joint with Todd Milbourn and Fenghua Song.

9) "Managerial Decisions, Asset Liquidity, and Stock Liquidity" joint with Mikhail Pevzner and Ohad Kadan

Papers on Banking

 

10) “Why Do Firms Switch Banks?” joint with Gregory Udell and Vijay Yerramilli

11) "How Do Defaults Affect Lead Arranger Reputation and Activity in the Loan Syndication Market" joint with Vikram Nanda and Vijay Yerramilli