Amrita Nain

Associate Professor of Finance

Dore-Tippie Research Fellow

Tippie College of Business

University of Iowa

amrita-nain@uiowa.edu

319-335-1017

Webpage at Tippie College of Business

 

 

 
Amrita Nain

 

Curriculum Vitae

 

 

 

 

 

Working papers

 

Process innovation and the corporate control market (with 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 (with M. Hammoudeh) Journal of Corporate Finance, forthcoming

2020 Western Finance Association Meetings, 2020 Midwest Finance Association Meetings

 

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)