Sris Chatterjee

• Bachelors: Indian Institute of Technology
• Masters: Indian Institute of Management and Columbia University
• PhD: Columbia University

• Corporate Finance
• Mergers and Acquisitions
• Capital Structure
• Options and Futures
• Behavioral Finance

• Using Innovative Securities under Asymmetric Information: Why do some firms pay with contingent value rights? (with An Yan), forthcoming  Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, accepted for publication in 2007.
• Hedge Fund Mergers (with Nusret Cakici), Journal of Investment Management, vol 4, no 2, 2006.
• Debtor-in-Possession Finance (with Upinder Dhillon and Gabriel Ramirez), Journal of Banking and Finance 28 (2004), pp 3097-3111.

Sris Chatterjee is an Associate Professor in the Finance and Business Economics Area at Fordham University’s Schools of Business where he is currently the Area Chair. He has taught a variety of courses including Mergers and Acquisitions, Principles of Modern Finance and Behavioral Finance for MBAs, executive MBAs, and the undergraduate business students.  He was the 1995 recipient of the Gladys and Henry Crown Award for Faculty Excellence at Fordham GBA.  Prof. Chatterjee got his undergraduate degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (Kharagpur) and his Postgraduate Diploma in Management from the Indian Institute of Management (Calcutta).  He received his M. Phil. and Ph. D. degrees from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Business.  Prior to joining Fordham University, Prof. Chatterjee taught at SUNY (Buffalo), Rutgers University and Columbia University.  He has taught in the Key Training Program at UBS Wealth Management, where he participated in curriculum development and in writing training material. He has taught in the executive MBA programs at other schools.

Prof. Chatterjee’s main research interest is in Corporate Finance.  His publications in the Journal of Banking and Finance, Journal of Financial Economics, Financial Management and the Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis include work on corporate debt/equity ratio, effect of interest rate uncertainty on the valuation of subordinated debt, restructurings of firms in financial distress and innovative securities. Prof. Chatterjee maintains a secondary research interest in Futures and Options, and has published several papers in the Journal of Futures Markets.  

Prof. Chatterjee is on the Editorial Boards of the International Journal of Banking, Accounting and Finance, and the International Journal of Behavioural Accounting and Finance.