Amil Dasgupta

Professor of Finance

Research interests

• Institutional investors
• Shareholder activism
• Corporate governance
• Financial markets
• Financial crises

Selected papers

• 'Ties that Bind: How business ties affect mutual fund activism', with Dragana Cvijanovic and Konstantinos Zachariadis, Journal of Finance, forthcoming. 

• 'The Wall Street Walk When Blockholders Compete for Flows', with Giorgia Piacentino, Journal of Finance, 70, 2853-2896, December 2015.

• 'Dynamic Coordination with Individual Learning', with Jakub Steiner and Colin Stewart, Games and Economic Behavior, 74, 83-101, January 2012.

• 'Regionality Revisited: An Examination of the Direction of Spread of Currency Crises', with Roberto Leon-Gonzalez and Anja Shortland, The Journal of International Money and Finance, 30, 831-838, September 2011.

• 'The Price Impact of Institutional Herding', with Andrea Prat and Michela Verardo, The Review of Financial Studies, 24, 892-925, March 2011.

• 'Institutional Trade Persistence and Long-Term Equity Returns', with Andrea Prat and Michela Verardo, Journal of Finance, 66, 635-663, April 2011.

• 'Managers as Administrators: Reputation and Incentives', with Yianis Sarafidis, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 70, 155-163, May 2009.

• 'Information aggregation in financial markets with career concerns', with Andrea Prat, Journal of Economic Theory, 143, 83-113, December 2008.

• 'Incentives in funds management: a literature overview', with S. Bhattacharya, A. Guembel, and A. Prat, in The Handbook of Financial Intermediation and Banking (edited by A. Boot and A. Thakor), Elsevier, 2008.

• 'Coordination and Delay in Global Games', Journal of Economic Theory, 134, 195-225, May 2007.

• 'Financial Equilibrium with Career Concerns', with Andrea Prat, Theoretical Economics, 1(1), pp. 67-93, March 2006.

• 'Financial Contagion through Capital Connections: A Model of the Origin and Spread of Bank Panics', Journal of the European Economic Association, 2(6), pp. 1049-1084, December 2004.

• 'Does One Soros Make a Difference? A Theory of Currency Crises with Large and Small Traders', with Giancarlo Corsetti, Stephen Morris, and Hyun Song Shin, The Review of Economic Studies, 71(1), pp. 87-114, January 2004.

Teaching

• Office Hours (internal LSE access only)

Lectures/classes

• FM422 Corporate Finance
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Other webpages

• Amil Dasgupta's personal webpage
• LSE Experts