Ramesh Rao
Director of Wealth Management Program
Department: Finance
Industry Areas: Bankruptcy, Corporate Litigation Damages, Corporate Restructuring, Corporate Valuation, Executive Education
Research Areas: Asset Pricing, Informational Asymmetry, Interface between Finance and Mkt Ops


ACADEMIC LEADERSHIP & AWARDS
2011 |
Board of Regents' Outstanding Teaching Award
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2005 |
Outstanding Faculty Award, Mexico City MBA Program
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2000 |
Outstanding Professor in the Option II (Executive) MBA Program, 1994
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1992 |
CBA Foundation Award for Excellence in Education
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1987 |
Jack Taylor Award for Teaching Excellence
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1985 |
Joe Beasley Award, (MBA Teaching)
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Publications
Neeraj Bharadwaj, Dominique M. Hanssens, and Ramesh K S Rao. 2020. Corporate Brand Value and Cash Holdings. Journal of Brand Management 27(4), 408-420.
Ramesh K S Rao. 2015. The Public Corporation as an Intermediary Between "Main Street" and "Wall Street". Journal of Corporate Finance 34, 64-82.
Ramesh K S Rao, Hongfei Tang, and Satyajit Chandrashekar. 2013. Do Corporate Cash Holdings Predict Stock Returns? Journal of Investing 22(2), 29-39.
Ramesh K S Rao and Genaro J. Gutierrez. 2010. Shareholders' Wealth-Maximizing Operating Decisions and Risk Management Practices in a Mixed Contracts Economy. Production and Operations Management 19(4), 418-433.
Ramesh K S Rao and Bharadwaj, Neeraj. 2008. Marketing Initiatives, Expected Cash Flows, and Shareholders’ Wealth. Journal of Marketing 72, 16-26.
Ramesh K S Rao and Stevens, Eric C. 2007. A Theory of the Firm’s Cost of Capital: How Debt Affects the Firm’s Risk, Value, Tax Rate and the Government’s Tax Claim. World Scientific Publishing Company.
Ramesh K S Rao and White, S. 2006. The Creation of First City Financial Corporation: A Case Study of the Bankruptcy Process, in International Journal of Financial Education, REPRINTED, in A Casebook on Corporate Renewal, Platt, H. D. and Platt, M. B. eds. Ann Arbor, MI: The University of Michigan Press.
Ramesh K S Rao and Stevens, E. 2006. The Firm's Cost of Capital, Its Effective Marginal Tax Rate, and the Value of the Government's Tax Claim. The Berkeley Electronic Journals in Economic Analysis & Policy 6:1:3, 1465-1521.
Ramesh K S Rao and Stevens, Eric C.. 2006. The Firm's Cost of Capital, Its Effective Marginal Tax Rate, and the Value of the Government's Tax Claim. Topics in Economic Analysis & Policy 6, 1-55.
Ramesh K S Rao and White, S. 2005. "Sulfur Dioxide Allowances: The Price of Pollution". Journal of Financial Education REPRINTED in ICFAI Journal of Environmental Law 31, 118-126.
Vipin Agrawal, Meeta Kothare, Ramesh K S Rao, and Pavan Wadhwa. 2004. Bid-ask Spreads, Informed Investors, and the Firm’s Financial Condition. Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance 44, 58-76.
Ramesh K S Rao, D. Sokolow, and D. White. 1997. The Effect of Deteriorating Financial Performance on Director Liability. Directorship 33, 3-6.
Ramesh K S Rao, D.S. Sokolow, and D. White. 1996. Fiduciary Duty a la Lyonnais: An Economic Perspective on Corporate Governance in a Financially Distressed Firm. Journal of Corporation Law 22, 53-78.
Ramesh K S Rao. 1995. Financial Management Concepts and Applications, 3rd Ed.. Cincinnati, OH: South-Western Publishing Company.
Y. Brook and Ramesh K S Rao. 1994. Does Limiting Directors' Liability Affect Stock Prices? Directorship 19, 3-5.
Y. Brook and Ramesh K S Rao. 1994. Shareholder Wealth Effects of Liability Limitation Provisions. Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis 29, 481-497.
Ramesh K S Rao and S. White. 1994. The Dividend Payouts of Private Firms: Evidence from Tax Court Records. Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis 29, 481-497.
C.B. Barry, D.W. French, and Ramesh K S Rao. 1991. Estimation Risk and Adaptive Behavior in the Pricing of Options. Financial Review 26, 15-31.
Ramesh K S Rao. 1991. Financial Management Concepts and Applications, 2nd Ed.. New York, NY: Macmillan Publishing.
A. Burnett, Seha Tinic, and Ramesh K S Rao. 1991. Subsidization Among S&Ls Under the Flat Rate Deposit Insurance System: Some Empirical Estimates. Journal of Financial Services Research 5, 143-164.
E. Ancel and Ramesh K S Rao. 1990. Stock Returns and Option Prices: An Exploratory Investigation. Journal of Financial Research 13, 173-185.
Van Harlow and Ramesh K S Rao. 1989. Asset Pricing in a Generalized Mean-Lower Partial Moment Framework: Theory and Evidence. Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis 24, 285-311.
Ramesh K S Rao. 1989. Fundamentals of Financial Management. New York, NY: Macmillan Publishing Co.
G. Boyle and Ramesh K S Rao. 1988. Mean-Generalized Coefficient of Variation Analysis and Expected Utility Maximization. Southern Economic Journal 55, 1-8.
W.Y. Lee and Ramesh K S Rao. 1988. Mean-Lower Partial Moment Valuation with Lognormally Distributed Returns. Management Science 34, 446-453.
Ramesh K S Rao, J. Finkelstein, W.Y. Lee, and R. Chiang. 1984. Adverse Selection as an Explanation of Credit Rationing and Different Lender Types. Journal of Macroeconomics 6, 159-180.
Ramesh K S Rao and S.D. Smith. 1983. Determinants of the Foreign Exchange Bias: A New Methodology. Mexico City: Current Economic and Financial Issues of the North American and Caribbean Countries, 304-308.
Ramesh K S Rao. 1982. The Impact of Yield Changes on the Systematic Risk of Bonds. Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis 17, 115-127.
John D. Martin and Ramesh K S Rao. 1981. Another Look at the Use of Options Pricing Theory to Evaluate Real Asset Investment Opportunities. Journal of Business Finance and Accounting 8, 421-430.
Ramesh K S Rao. 1981. Modern Option Pricing Models: A Dichotomous Classification. Journal of Financial Research 4, 33-44.
W.Y. Lee, Ramesh K S Rao, and J.F.G. Auchmuty. 1981. Option Pricing in a Lognormal Securities Market with Discrete Trading. Journal of Financial Economics 9, 75-101.
Ramesh K S Rao, W.Y. Lee, and UJ.F. G. Auchmuty. 1981. Option Pricing in a Lognormal Securities Market with Discrete Trading. Journal of Financial Economics.
J. Finkelstein and Ramesh K S Rao. 1980. Credit Rationing, Regulation and Financial Intermediation (Abstract), in Proceedings of a Conference on Bank Structure and Competition, Chicago, IL: Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago.
Ramesh K S Rao and Stephen P. Magee. 1980. The Currency of Denomination of International Trade Contracts, in Exchange Risk and Exposure: Current Developments in International Financial Management, Richard M. Levich and Clas G. Wihlborg, eds. Lexington, MA: Lexington Books.
Stephen P. Magee and Ramesh K S Rao. 1980. Vehicle and Non-Vehicle Currencies in International Trade. American Economic Review 70, 368-373.
Ramesh K S Rao. 1978. Risk-Neutral and Non Risk-Neutral Call Option Prices: A Synthesis, in Proceedings of the Southwestern Finance Association,