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Ravi Shukla

Department Chair of Finance

(315) 443-3576
Room: 629
rkshukla@syr.edu

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PhD (finance), State University of New York (SUNY) at Buffalo

PhD (finance), State University of New York (SUNY) at Buffalo


Research Topics

  • Investments
  • Assets Pricing
  • Mutual Funds
  • Corporate Finance
  • Banking
  • Capital markets
  • Securities Prices

He has taught courses in investments, financial modeling, corporate finance, and money and banking.

Professor Shukla’s research interests are in the areas of investments, asset pricing, and methodological issues. His current research focuses on the effect of violation of the assumptions of financial theory on the performance of porfolios.

Selected Publications
  • "Do Locals Perform Better than Foreigners?: An Analysis of UK and US Mutual Fund Managers", Journal of Economics and Business, 47 (3), 241-254, 1995, (Gregory B. van Inwegen)
  • "The Value of Active Portfolio Management", Journal of Economics and Business, Volume 56, Issue 4, July-August 2004
  • "Sequential Tests of the Arbitrage Pricing Theory: A Comparison of Principal Components and Maximum Likelihood Factors", Journal of Finance, 45 (5), 1541-1564, 1990, (Charles Trzcinka)
  • "Mutual Fund Objective Misclassification", Journal of Economics and Business, Volume 52, Issue 4, July 2000, (with Kim, M. and Tomas, M.)

Honors

  • MBASA Outstanding Faculty Award: 1998, 2002, 2003
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