Office: 475 RBC Phone: 610-758-4161 Fax: 610-758-6429 Email: nnayar@lehigh.edu Advanced Topics in Corp Finance (MBA) Financial Management (MBA) International Financial Management (MBA) PhD Seminar in Corporate Finance Advanced Topics in Corporate Finance (undergraduate) Corporate Financial Policy (undergraduate

Nandkumar (Nandu) Nayar, Ph.D. holds the Hans Baer Chair in International Finance.

Perella Department of Finance: Professor

Education
-  Indian Institute of Technology, IIT-Kharagpur, B.Tech.
-  University of Iowa, M.S., Ph.D.

Nandkumar (Nandu) Nayar joined the Faculty of the CBE in Fall 2001.  Prior to his training in finance, Professor Nayar worked as a civil engineer, a field in which he holds Bachelors and Masters degrees. He was previously an associate professor and Nichols Faculty Fellow at the University of Oklahoma, where he received several teaching awards, including the Harold Hackler Outstanding MBA Professor, Regents Award for Superior Teaching, and awards voted on by students such as Student Business Association's Outstanding Faculty Member of the Year, and the Delta Sigma Pi Professor of the Year. He has lectured to a variety of audiences including executives from domestic corporations as well as from Hong Kong, Korea, Kazakhstan, Russia, Armenia, and Georgia.

Professor Nayar's research has been published in the Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Economics, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Journal of Futures Markets, and Financial Management, and quoted in the Wall Street Journal. He is an associate editor of the Financial Review. In the consulting arena, his research on behalf of an insurance company involved in residual value insurance for real estate assets helped the company save over $170Million in capital charges to maintain its insurance ratings.

Research Interests

• Corporate finance - including investment banking, and short term financing options, valuations
• Pricing of securities (fixed income, derivative, and equity)
• Residual Value Insurance and Structured finance products

Publications and Working Papers

• Financial Implications of the Decision to Increase Reliance on Contingent Labor (with G. Lee Willinger). Decision Sciences, 32(4), 2001, 661-681. (This research was quoted on the front page of the Wall Street Journal and several other media outlets.)
• Ratings, Commercial Paper, and Equity Returns (with Michael S. Rozeff), Journal of Finance, 49(4), 1994 , 1431-1449. (Nominated for the Breeden Award.)
• Supply Chain Excellence - Is there a financial reward?, Working Paper, 2006.

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