Murugappa (Murgie) Krishnan
Acting Associate Professor
Murgie Krishnan is a visiting professor in accounting. His Phd is from the University of Pennsylvania, and he has taught at various schools including Purdue, Minnesota, Carnegie-Mellon and Rutgers.
His research interests are in accounting and information economics, asset pricing with private information, industrial organization, and Indian financial markets. His work has been published in accounting, finance and economics journals, and includes work in Econometrica, the RAND Journal, Journal of Financial Markets and the Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis.
He has taught a variety of courses in accounting and finance, to undergrads, Master's and PhD students.
He also has an extra-curricular interest in India's Right To Information Act, that he has used to seek data for academic research.
Education
1987 Ph.D., 足彩app哪个是正规的 Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
1981 M.B.A. in Finance/Quantitative Methods IIM-A, India
1979 B.Com., Loyola College, University of Madras, India, 1979
Courses
Undergraduate – Intermediate financial accounting, introductory financial accounting, cost and managerial accounting, advanced financial accounting. Introductory finance, international finance (senior elective).
MS, Accounting – Contemporary topics in accounting, financial and managerial accounting (regular, professional master’s, online)
MBA – Financial accounting (core course), financial and managerial accounting (core course), intermediate financial accounting. Financial statement analysis. (Regular, professional master’s, online).
Executive MBA (international) – Financial accounting (core course), comparative international reporting; energy sector reporting issues.
Ph.D. – Seminar in asset pricing under perfect and imperfect competition, disclosure policy, and intermediation (taken by students in Accounting, Finance and Economics).
Research and Scholarship Interests
Disclosure in financial markets; asset pricing with private information and imperfect competition; Indian financial markets; industrial organization; shop-floor productivity.
At Purdue University, Carnegie-Mellon, University of Minnesota, Rutgers University, CUNY-Baruch, Yeshiva University, Hofstra, William Paterson, and Radford University.
Selected Publications
“Preemptive Investment and Resalable Capacity” (with Lars-Hendrik R??ller), RAND Journal of Economics, Winter 1993, pp. 479-502.
“Insider Trading and Asset Pricing in an Imperfectly Competitive Multi-Security Market” (with Jordi Caball??), Econometrica, Vol. 62, No. 3 (May 1994), pp. 695-704.
“To Believe or Not to Believe” (with Utpal Bhattacharya), Journal of Financial Markets (1999). pp. 69-98.
“Prices As Aggregators Of Private Information: Evidence From S&P 500 Futures Data” (with Jin-Wan Cho). Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis. Vol 35, No. 1, March 2000, pp. 111-126.
“Who Herds? Who Doesn’t? Estimates of Herding in Analysts’ Earnings Forecasts” with Rong Huang, John Shon and Ping Zhou), Contemporary Accounting Research, Volume 34, Issue 1, Spring 2017, Pages 374–399.
“Stock Price Impact of Diversity in Investor Beliefs,” Applied Economics Letters, March 2019, Pages 1466-4291, https://doi.org/10.1080/13504851.2019.1584361.