Dr. Prabhala's Background
Personal Profile
Dr. Prabhala is the Francis J. Carey, Jr. Endowed Professor in Business and Professor of Finance with the Johns Hopkins Carey Business School. His primary research interests are in empirical corporate finance and financial intermediation. Prior to joining Carey, Prabhala was Professor and head of the finance area at University of Maryland, College Park. Prabhala also has served as research head at CAFRAL, Reserve Bank of India, and has taught at Indian School of Business, National University of Singapore, and Yale School of Management. His recent research focuses on using spatial methods to understand competition between firms, between actively managed funds, and in the venture capital industry. In addition, he has studied director elections and diversity in boards of directors, the FinTech areas of peer to peer lending and robo-advising, the adoption of FinTech by individuals and banks, and several issues in banking including bank runs, monetary transmission, creditor rights, and bank financing of small firms.
Honors & Awards
Senior Fellow, ABFER, 2023-
Member, Independent Experts Group To Assess IIM Ahmedabad, 2022-2023.
Program Chair, Vice-President, President, Midwest Finance Association 2021-2023
Co-editor, Journal of Financial Services Research 2019-
Visiting Scholar, Office for Financial Research, US Treasury, 2019-2023
National Science Foundation Grant, 2020-2022
Keynote speaker, NYU-NSE conference (2019)
Keynote speaker, IFMR annual conference (2019)
Associate Editor, Journal of Financial Stability, 2019-
Inaugural Edelweiss Visiting Professor, IIM Ahmedabad, 2018-2019
Keynote Speaker, Presidency University Bicentenary, 2017
Keynote Speaker, India Finance Conference, IIM Ahmedabad, 2016
Keynote Speaker, 6th Annual Finance Conference, Great Lakes Institute of Management 2016
INFORMS Management Science Best Paper Award, 2015.
Vice-Chairman, OMFIF Economists Network, 2015-2018
Founding Officer, CEBRA, 2015
Senior Academic Fellow, Center for Analytical Finance, ISB, 2014-2016
Member, Grant Panel, NYU/NSE India Research Initiative, 2014-
Member Academic Council, National Institute of Securities Market, 2014-2016
Member, Steering Committee, Financial Inclusion Survey of 16,000 Households, 2014-2015
Associate Editor, Financial Management, 2012-current
Faculty Panel, European FMA Doctoral Student Symposium
Best Referee Award, Journal of Financial Intermediation, 2011
Associate Editor, Review of Financial Studies, 2001-2004
Program Committees: CETAFE, EFA, EMF, FIRS, Fed Cleveland Financial Stability, FDIC-
JFSR, FMA, FOM, IDC, WFA, ISB CAF, Napa Valley. Track chair in many of these.
Journal of Financial Economics all-star paper award, 2008
Best Referee Award, Review of Financial Studies, 2001
Western Finance Association NASDAQ Best Paper Award, 1999
Jules I. Bogen and University Doctoral Fellowships, NYU, 1990-1993.
Phi Beta Gamma, New York University, 1993.
Experience
2019-Present
Johns Hopkins University
Professor of Finance and Francis J. Carey, Jr. Endowed Professor of Business at The Carey Business School
1999-2018
University of Maryland College Park
Associate Professor and Professor (With Tenure), and Assistant Professor of Finance at the R. H. Smith School of Business
1994-1999
Yale University
Assistant Professor of Finance at the Yale School of Management in New Haven, CT