Professor
Chinmoy Ghosh has been a faculty member at the department of
Finance at the University of Connecticut since 1986, the year
he graduated from the Pennsylvania University with a Ph.D in
Finance with minors in Economics and Quantitative Analysis.
He has taught at the undergraduate, MBA, Executive MBA, Part-time
Professional MBA, and Ph.D. levels. He has won the MBA best
Teacher of the Year award in 1999, 2000, 2002, and 2003. In
2003, he won the EMBA best teacher of the year award. He won
the SBA Outstanding Service Award in 2002.
His research primarily focuses on the efficiency of the capital
market, particularly with respect to the impact of managerial
decisions on stock prices. He has published in major academic
finance journals including Journal of Financial Economics, Journal
of Banking and Finance, Journal of Financial Research, Journal
of Financial Services Research, Journal of Risk and Insurance,
Real Estate Economics, Journal of Real Estate Economics and
Finance, Journal of Urban Economics, and Journal of Property
Finance.
His research has been nominated for the Best Article Award at
the School of Business. He won SBA/SNET Best Article Award in
1990. More recently, his research has explored the valuation
of Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs), and American Depository
Receipts (ADRs). One of his papers on ADR won the best competitive
paper award in the area of International Finance in the 1998
Financial Management Association meetings. His consulting assignments
include Fidelity Investments, Prudential Inc., International
Development Research Council (IDRC), Cigna, and IBM Global Finance.
He is also an active consultant in the seminar circuit of the
AICPA and AIMR CFA Program. He has presented research findings
at several international academic meetings. He set up, and is
currently the Director and Chairman of the Board of Advisers
for the Student Managed Investment Fund at UConn, a $1m fund
managed entirely by UConn UG and MBA students. He serves as
a member of the Board of Directors at the UConn Coop.
