Amiyatosh Purnanandam

Amiyatosh Purnanandam is a professor of finance in the McCombs School of Business at The University of Texas at Austin. He holds the Denise and Ray Nixon Endowed Chair in Finance. Purnanandam comes to Texas McCombs from the University of Michigan, where he taught at the Ross School of Business for more than 20 years.

His research covers a wide range of topics in banking and corporate finance. His recent work is mostly related to digital payments and the measurement and detection of risk in banking. His research has been published in leading journals such as the Journal of Financial Economics, The Journal of Finance, The Review of Financial Studies, the Review of Finance, and the Journal of Monetary Economics.

He has served on the editorial boards of several of these journals and others, including the Journal of Financial Intermediation and the Journal of Banking & Finance. Purnanandam recently served as a director of the Financial Intermediation Research Society, and he currently serves as the vice president of the Midwest Finance Association.

He has been a visiting professor of finance at UCLA’s Anderson School of Management and a visiting scholar at the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland. Purnanandam is also a Distinguished Visiting Fellow to the Indian School of Business in Hyderabad, India.

He earned an M.S. and Ph.D. from Cornell University, an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management in Lucknow, and a B.Tech. from the Indian Institute of Technology in Kharagpur.