Faculty Profile

Gurdip S. Bakshi Dean's Professor of Finance Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison 4413 Van Munching Hall Phone: 301-405-2261 E-mail: gbakshi@rhsmith.umd.edu Personal Web site

Professor Bakshi's research interests include asset pricing, international finance, term structure of interest rates, default risk, and pricing of derivative securities. His works have been published in the American Economic Review, Journal of Business, Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Economics, Management Science, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, and Review of Financial Studies. His recent work focuses on studying the valuation structures of technology stocks, risk premiums, investor irrationality, probability of stock market crashes, and credit risks. He was appointed FDIC Fellow in 2005, and won research grants from FDIC and BSI Gamma Foundation. Professor Bakshi also serves on the editorial boards of Review of Financial Studies, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Review of Derivatives Research and Journal of Financial Econometrics. He was ranked as a top 15% teacher in 2003, 2004 and 2007.