Biography

Professor Tarun Chordia received his PhD in finance from the Anderson School, UCLA, in 1993. Prior to his doctoral studies, he worked for Citibank as a relationship and credit manager in the Financial Institutions Group. He has been an Assistant Professor of Finance at the Owen Graduate School of Management, Vanderbilt University from 1993 to 2000. He joined the Goizueta Business School at Emory University in 2000.

Professor Chordia’s research is grounded in both theory and empirical methods and spans a diverse area of financial economics. Professor Chordia has published extensively in the top finance journals, including Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Economics, the Review of Financial Studies, Journal of Business, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Review of Finance, and Management Science. He has received numerous awards for his research on empirical asset pricing and market microstructure. He has been the managing editor of the Journal of Financial Markets from 2013 to 2022 and a past associate editor of Review of Financial Studies. He is on the program committee for numerous conferences and is a referee for numerous journals.

Education

  • Ph.D. in Finance
    University of California, Los Angeles
  • MBA in Business Administration
    Tulane University
  • MS in Chemical Engineering
    Tulane University
  • B. Tech. in Chemical Engineering
    Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi

The link between corporate alliances and returns

July 30, 2018

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Increased trading activity and declining returns

July 25, 2018

Improved trading technologies are changing the markets, facilitating the boom in algorithmic trading and the growth of hedge funds. Liquidity and trading volume continue to hit record levels. In a research study, Tarun Chordia, R.