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Sugato Chakravarty
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Consumer Sciences and Retailing
Matthews Hall
812 W. State Street
West Lafayette, Indiana 47907-2060

Phone: (765) 494-8292
Fax: (765) 494-0869
E-mail: csr@purdue.edu

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Selected Refereed Publications

Chakravarty, S., and T. Yilmazer, 2008, A Multistage Model of Loans and the Role of Relationships, forthcoming Financial Management.

Anand, A., and S. Chakravarty, 2007, Stealth trading in Options Markets, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, 42, 167-188.

Chakravarty, S., V. Panchapagesan, and R.A. Wood, 2005, Did Decimalization Hurt Institutional Investors?  Journal of Financial Markets, 8, 400-420.

Anand, A., S. Chakravarty, and T. Martell, 2005, Empirical Evidence on the Evolution of Liquidity: Choice of Market versus Limit Orders by Informed and Uninformed Traders, Journal of Financial Markets, 8, 288-308.

Chakravarty, S., and A. Dubinsky, 2005, “Individual Investors’ Reactions to Decimalization:  Innovation Diffusion in Financial Markets,Journal of Economic Psychology, 26, 89-103.

Chakravarty, S., H. Gulen and S. Mayhew, 2004, “Informed Trading in Stock and Options Markets,” Journal of Finance, 59, 1235-1258.

Chakravarty, S., R. Feinberg, and E. Rhee, 2004, “Relationships and Individuals’ Bank Switching Behavior,” Journal of Economic Psychology, 25, 507-527. 

Chakravarty, S., and A. Sarkar, 2003, “A Comparison of Trading Costs in the U.S. Corporate, Municipal and Treasury Bond Markets,” Journal of Fixed Income, 13, 39-48.

Chakravarty, S., and K. Li, 2003, “An Examination of Own Account Trading by Dual Trading in Futures Markets,” Journal of Financial Economics, 69, 375-397. 

Chakravarty, S., and K. Li, 2003, “A Bayesian Analysis of Dual Trader Informativeness in Futures Markets,” Journal of Empirical Finance, 10, 2003, 355-371.

Chakravarty, S., 2001, “Stealth trading:  Which traders’ trades move stock prices?Journal of Financial Economics, 61, 289-307.

Chakravarty, S., and J.S. Scott, 1999, “Relationships and Rationing in Consumer Loans,” Journal of Business, 72, 1999, 523-544. 

Chakravarty, S., and J.J. McConnell, 1999, “Does Insider Trading Really Move Stock Prices?Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, 1999, 34, 191-209.

Chakravarty, S., A. Sarkar and L. Wu, 1998, “Information Asymmetry and the Pricing of Cross-Listed Stocks: Evidence from Chinese A- and B-Shares,” Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions and Money, 8, 1998, 325-355.

Chakravarty, S., and J.J. McConnell, 1997, “An Analysis of Prices, Bid/Ask Spreads, and Bid and Ask Depths Surrounding Ivan Boesky’s Illegal Trading in Carnation’s Stock,” Financial Management, 26, 1997, 18-34.

Chakravarty, S., and C. Holden, 1995, “An Integrated Model of Market and Limit Orders,” Journal of Financial Intermediation, 4, 1995, 215-241.

Current Research Interests

  • Consumer issues in banking
  • Market microstructure
  • Banking issues related to consumer decision making
  • Corporate control
  • Information economics as applied to financial markets

Teaching Philosophy

  • Believe that effective teaching should empower students with the techniques and information necessary to make important life-changing decisions quickly and confidently.

Teaching Interests

  • Insurance — an undergraduate class that discusses the various aspects of insurance and its effect on financial planning
  • Consumption theories — a graduate class that provides the tools necessary for the analysis of consumption decision making
  • Financial planning — an undergraduate class that teaches how to effectively prepare a financial plan for optimal allocation of resources

Professional Organizations

  • American Finance Association
  • Western Finance Association
  • Financial Management Association
  • American Council on Consumer Interests