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    Department of Economics and Finance Faculty & Staff

    SUDHA KRISHNASWAMI
    Associate Professor
    Ph.D., Texas A&M University, 1996
    At UNO since 1996 Dr. Krishnaswami currently teaches courses in corporate finance and valuation to the undergraduate, MBA, and Ph.D. students in the College of Business Administration. She has also taught courses in Investments and Financial Markets at the Lowry Mays Graduate School of Business, Texas A&M University, where she won the McDonald's Award for Teaching Excellence in 1995. Her research interests are primarily in the areas of corporate restructuring, financing choices, and corporate governance. In her current research, she analyzes the asymmetry in information between a firm's managers, and shareholders to determine the optimal mode of restructuring, and the cost-effective means of financing the firm's operation. In this context, her work has been cited in the Investors Business Daily.Office: BA 305
    Phone: (504) 280-6488
    skrishn1@uno.edu
    website:http://www.uno.edu/skrishna/ --> Specialties:
    Corporate Restructuring
    Corporate Control
    Corporate Governance
    Financial Distress and Litigation
     
    EDUCATION Texas A&M University, College Station, TX
    Ph.D., Finance, August 1991 - August 1996 Temple University, Philadelphia, PA
    M.A., Mathematics, August 1989 - May 1991 P.S.G. College of Technology, Coimbatore, India
    M.Sc., Applied Mathematics, July 1986 - May 1988 P.S.G. College of Technology, Coimbatore, India
    B.Sc., Applied Sciences, July 1983 - June 1986 EXPERIENCE University of New Orleans, New Orleans, LA
    Assistant Professor of Finance, August 1996 - Present Texas A&M University, College Station, TX
    Graduate Assistant - Teaching, Finance, August 1991 - August 1996 Temple University, Philadelphia, PA
    Graduate Assistant - Teaching, Mathematics, August 1989 - May 1991 P.S.G. College of Technology, Coimbatore, India
    Lecturer of Mathematics, June 1988 - May 1989 PUBLICATIONS "Information Asymmetry, Monitoring, and the Placement Structure of Corporate Debt," with Paul Spindt and Venkat Subramaniam, Journal of Financial Economics, forthcoming. "Information Asymmetry, Valuation and the Corporate Spin-off Decision" with Venkal Subramaniam, Journal of Financial Economics, forthcoming. AWARDS, LECTURESHIPS, OR PRIZES 1995 McDonalds Award for Teaching Excellence, Texas A&M University. 1992 Regents Doctoral Fellowship, Texas A&M University. Best Outgoing Student Award, P.S.G. College of Tech., B.Sc. Class of 1986. SPECIAL RECOGNITION FOR TEACHING 1995 McDonalds Award for Teaching Excellence, Texas A&M University.

  
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