Sudipto Dasgupta

Prof Sudipto Dasgupta is Chair Professor of Finance and Director of Centre for Asian Financial Markets at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST). Professor Dasgupta taught at the Department of Finance and Business Economics at the School of Business and Management of the University of Southern California from 1987-1993. He was Assistant Professor at the department of Finance at HKUST from 1993-97. He then re-joined the department in 2000 as Associate Professor of Finance, after serving as the State Bank of India Chair Professor of Finance at the Jawaharlal Nehru University in India for two years. He has been a visiting professor of Finance at University of Gothenburg, Sweden, Sweden, on several occasions. Professor Dasgupta received his PhD from the Department of Economics at the University of Southern California of Southern California in 1987. Before obtaining his PhD, he received his MA in Economics from the University of Calcutta, India, in 1980 and his BA from Presidency College, Calcutta, India, in 1977.

Professor Dasgupta’s research interests are mainly in the areas of Corporate Finance, Applied Microeconomics, Game Theory, Auction Theory and Industrial Organization. He has worked on optimal auction methods for government procurement, financial policy of companies, the theory of joint venture formation and breakdowns, corporate governance, bidding for takeover targets and emerging market issues.

He has a number of publications in journals like Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Intermediation, Journal of Corporate Finance, Journal of Economic Theory, Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, etc.