Amrita Nain Associate Professor of Finance Dore-Tippie Research Fellow Tippie College of Business University of Iowa 319-335-1017 Webpage
at Tippie College of Business
Working papers
Political polarization and investor disagreement (with Yi Hao and Haocheng Xu)
2025 SFS Cavalcade North
America, 2025 Eastern Finance Association Meetings
The nature of innovation and the market for corporate control (with J. Garfinkel and U. Khetan)
2024 Midwest Finance
Association Meetings, 2024 Eastern Finance Association Meetings, 2024 Northern
Finance Association Meetings
The rise of venture capital and IPO quality (with J. Ying and J. Arthur)
The effect of labor cost on labor-saving innovation (with Y. Wang)
Publications
Seeking efficiency or price gouging? Evidence from pharmaceutical mergers (2024) Journal of Corporate Finance (with M. Hammoudeh)
The role of divestitures in horizontal mergers (2022) Journal of Corporate Finance 72 (with M. Hammoudeh and Y. Qian)
Do firms issue misleading forecasts before stock repurchases? (2021) Financial Management. 50 (4) (with A. Vijh)
The Product Market Impact of Minority Stake Acquisitions (2018) Management Science. 64 (2) pp. 825-844 (with Y. Wang)
Mutual Fund Skills and the Performance of Corporate Acquirers (2013) Journal of Financial Economics (with T. Yao)
Adam, T. & Nain, A. (2013). Strategic Risk Management and Product Market Competition In Advances in Risk Management, Palgrave Macmillan Special Research Volume.
It Pays to Follow the Leader: Acquiring Targets Picked by Private Equity (2012) Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis (with A. Dittmar and D. Li)
Horizontal Acquisitions and Buying Power: A Product Market Analysis (2011) Journal of Financial Economics 99 (1) pp. 97-115 (with S. Bhattacharyya)
Market Valuation and Acquisition Quality: Empirical Evidence (2009) Review of Financial Studies. 22 (2) pp. 633-679 (with C. Bouwman and K. Fuller)
Does Insider Trading Regulation Deter Private Information Trading? International Evidence (2007) Pacific-Basin Finance Journal. 15 pp. 409-433 (with A. Durnev)
The Effectiveness of Insider Trading Regulation: International Evidence, 2007, Journal of Institutional Comparisons (CESifo DICE report) 1, 1-27 (with A. Durnev),
Stock Market Valuation and Mergers, 2003, MIT Sloan Management Review 45, 9-11 (with C. Bouwman and K.P. Fuller)