Dr Prajakta Desai

LSE Fellow

Research Interests

• Earnings Management
• Financial Reporting and Firm Quality
• Corporate Finance/Governance
• Empirical Asset Pricing and Portfolio Asset Allocation
• Credit Risk Analysis

Working Papers

• Delisting as a Consequence of Earnings Management: The Case of U.S. IPOs (with Arif Khurshed and Susanne Espenlaub).
• A Systematic Out-of-Sample Assessment of the Economic Value of Multivariate Linear Predictability Models (with Massimo Guidolin).
• An Empirical Analysis of the Nature of Sovereign Credit Risk (with Massimo Guidolin). 

Awards 

• Manchester Business School Bursary for doctoral studies 2009-2013.

Other Contributions

• Online resources for ‘Financial Reporting Theory’ by Craig Deegan and Jeffrey Unerman, McGraw-Hill.

Teaching

• AC330 Financial Accounting, Analysis and Valuation
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