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Dasgupta, Amil

Dr Amil Dasgupta  

Department

Position held

Department of Finance

Professor of Finance

 

Experience keywords:

Shareholder activism; corporate governance; financial crisis; financial markets; game theory; international finance

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Dr Dasgupta's research interests lie in information economics and game theory with application to finance. His research focuses on the delegation of portfolio management and its consequences for financial markets, and on the theory of financial crises.

Sectors and industries to which research relates:

Financial Services

Contact Points

LSE phone number:

+44 (0)20 7955 7458

LSE email:

a.dasgupta@lse.ac.uk

Publications

2016

Cvijanović, Dragana and Dasgupta, Amil and Zachariadis, Konstantinos (2016) Ties that bind: how business connections affect mutual fund activism The Journal of Finance. ISSN 0022-1082

2015

Dasgupta, Amil and Piacentino, Giorgia (2015) The Wall Street walk when blockholders compete for flows The Journal of Finance, 70 (6). 2853-2896. ISSN 0022-1082

Burkart, Mike and Dasgupta, Amil (2015) Activist funds, leverage, and procyclicality SRC Discussion Paper, No 40. Systemic Risk Centre, The London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK.

2012

Dasgupta, Amil and Steiner, Jakub and Stewart, Colin (2012) Dynamic coordination with individual learning Games and Economic Behavior, 74 (1). 83-101. ISSN 0899-8256

2011

Dasgupta, Amil and Prat, Andrea and Verardo, Michela (2011) The price impact of institutional herding Review of Financial Studies, 24 (3). 892-925. ISSN 0893-9454

Dasgupta, Amil and Prat, Andrea and Verardo, Michela (2011) Institutional trade persistence and long-term equity returns The Journal of Finance, 66 (2). 635-653. ISSN 0022-1082

Dasgupta, Amil and Zachariadis, Konstantinos (2011) Delegated activism and disclosure The Paul Woolley Centre paper series, 27. London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK. ISBN 09568549689

Dasgupta, Amil and Leon-Gonzalez, Roberto and Shortland, Anja (2011) Regionality revisited: an examination of the direction of spread of currency crises Journal of International Money and Finance, 30 (5). 831-848. ISSN 0261-5606

2009

Dasgupta, Amil and Sarafidis, Yianis (2009) Managers as administrators: reputation and incentives Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 70 (1-2). 155-163. ISSN 0167-2681

2008

Bhattacharya, Sudipto and Dasgupta, Amil and Prat, Andrea (2008) Incentives in funds management: a literature overview In: Thakor, Anjan V. and Boot, Arnoud, (eds.) Handbook of Financial Intermediation and Banking . Handbooks in finance. Elsevier, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 285-304. ISBN 9780444515582

Dasgupta, Amil and Prat, Andrea (2008) Information aggregation in financial markets with career concerns Journal of Economic Theory, 143 (1). 83-113. ISSN 1095-7235

2007

Dasgupta, Amil (2007) Coordination and delay in global games Journal of Economic Theory, 134 (1). 195-225. ISSN 1095-7235

Dasgupta, Amil and Prat, Andrea and Verardo, Michela (2007) Institutional trade persistence and long-term equity returns 6374. Centre for Economic Policy Research, London, UK.

Dasgupta, Amil and Steiner, Jakub and Stewart, Colin (2007) Efficient dynamic coordination with individual learning Discussion paper, 600. Financial Markets Group, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK.

2006

Dasgupta, Amil and Prat, Andrea (2006) Financial equilibrium with career concerns Theoretical Economics, 1 (1). 67-93. ISSN 1555-7561

Dasgupta, Amil and Leon-Gonzalez, Roberto and Shortland, Anja (2006) Regionality revisited: an examination of the direction of spread of currency crises Discussion paper, 584. Financial Markets Group, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK.

2005

Prat, Andrea and Dasgupta, Amil (2005) Reputation and asset prices: a theory of information cascades and systematic mispricing. In: Workshop on Informational Herding Behavior, 16-18 Sep 2005, Hillerød, Denmark

Dasgupta, Amil and Prat, Andrea (2005) Reputation and price dynamics in financial markets 222. Society for Economic Dynamics, Connecticut, USA.

Dasgupta, Amil and Prat, Andrea (2005) Asset price dynamics when traders care about reputation 5372. Centre for Economic Policy Research, London, UK.

2004

Dasgupta, Amil and Prat, Andrea (2004) Career concerns in financial markets. In: European Summer Symposium in Economic Theory, 5-16 Jul 2004, Gersensee, Switzerland

Dasgupta, Amil (2004) Financial contagion through capital connections: a model of the origin and spread of bank panics Journal of European Economic Association, 2 (6). 1049-1084. ISSN 1542-4766

Dasgupta, Amil and Corsetti, Giancarlo and Morris, Stephen and Shin, Hyun Song (2004) Does one Soros make a difference? A theory of currency crises with large and small traders Review of Economic Studies, 71 (1). 87-114. ISSN 1467-937X

Dasgupta, Amil and Prat, Andrea (2004) Career concerns in financial markets Discussion paper, 494. Financial Markets Group, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK.

2003

Dasgupta, Amil and Prat, Andrea (2003) Trading volume with career concerns 4034. Centre for Economic Policy Research, London, UK.

2002

Dasgupta, Amil (2002) Financial contagion through capital connections: a model of the origin and spread of bank panics Discussion paper, 436. Financial Markets Group, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK.

Dasgupta, Amil (2002) Coordination, learning, and delay Discussion paper, 435. Financial Markets Group, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK.

2001

Corsetti, Giancarlo and Dasgupta, Amil and Morris, Stephen and Shin, Hyun Song (2001) Does one Soros make a difference?: a theory of currency crises with large and small traders Discussion paper, 372. Financial Markets Group, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK.

1997

Dasgupta, Amil and Feldman, Arnold D (1997) An intersection property of sylow 2-subgroups in non-solvable groups Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society, 122 (2). 261-268. ISSN 0305-0041

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