Tag Archives: Viral Acharya

Prof. Acharya on Inflation-indexed Bonds

Posted on June 13, 2013 by Alanna Valdez

The following is an Live Mint/Wall Street Journal op-ed written by Professor Viral Acharya.

In an important policy statement, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) recently announced that it will issue Rs.12,000-15,000 crore of 10-year maturity inflation-indexed bonds (IIBs) in … Continue reading →

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Prof. Acharya’s Research on Gov. Debt is Cited

Posted on May 27, 2013 by Alanna Valdez

NYU Stern Professor Viral Acharya’s research on government debt was cited recently by Bloomberg News in “No Lehman Moments as Big Banks Deemed to Big to Fail.”

“Buyers of big-bank debt have been counting on government aid for at least … Continue reading →

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Bloomberg Highlights Viral Acharya’s Research on the Repo Market

Posted on May 10, 2013 by Alanna Valdez

Bloomberg featured NYU Stern Professor Viral Acharya’s research in an article about fire sales risk and repo market reforms.

Excerpt from Bloomberg –”A so-called resolution authority for the repo market, to orderly liquidate repurchase agreements and prevent fire sales of underlying assets … Continue reading →

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Precautionary Hoarding of Liquidity and Inter-Bank Markets: Evidence from the Sub-Prime Crisis

Posted on May 1, 2013 by Alanna Valdez

Viral Acharya, C.V. Starr Professor of Economics and Director of the NSE-NYU Stern Initiative on the Study of Indian Capital Markets, and his co-author, Ouarda Merrouche at The World Bank, studied the liquidity demand of large settlement banks in the … Continue reading →

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Breaking the bank-sovereign nexus

Posted on February 19, 2013 by Alanna Valdez

The following Op-ed was written by Viral Acharya on livemint.com, “Breaking the bank-sovereign nexus: The ownership structure of India’s debt seems problematic from the view of financial and economic stability”

The unique feature of the global financial crisis that … Continue reading →

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Corporate Governance, Emerging Markets, State-Owned Banks: Thoughts from Viral Acharya

Posted on February 13, 2013 by Alanna Valdez

The following interview “Political Influence on State-Owned Enterprises: The True Obstacle to Private Sector Growth in Emerging Markets?” with Professor Viral Acharya was conducted by the Corporate Governance Forum.

The most interesting piece on corporate governance I read … Continue reading →

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A Call to Action: Experts Discuss the Need for Regulatory Instruments

Posted on February 4, 2013 by Alanna Valdez

Designing Global Financial Regulatory Instruments
By  NYU Stern Professor Viral Acharya and T. Sabri Öncü

Despite the largest financial crisis since the 1930s, progress towards international coordination of financial regulation remains dismally slow.

To speed the development of a … Continue reading →

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Viral Acharya Leads the Initiative on the Study for Indian Capital Markets

Posted on September 25, 2012 by Laura Shanley

NYU Stern and the National Stock Exchange of India (NSE) have announced the Initiative on the Study for Indian Capital Markets. NYU Stern Finance Professor and MSRM faculty member Viral Acharya will lead the initiative.

NYU Finance Professors Joel Hasbrouck … Continue reading →

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A New NYU Stern Research Paper Addresses Capital Shortfall and Regulation

Posted on June 5, 2012 by Laura Shanley

NYU Stern finance professors Viral Acharya, Robert Engle and Matthew Richardson have a new paper forthcoming in the American Economic Review: Papers and Proceedings. In “Capital Shortfall: A New Approach to Ranking and Regulating Systemic Risks,” they propose a method … Continue reading →

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New Research Paper Calls For “Repo Resolution Authority”

Posted on April 30, 2012 by Laura Shanley

A paper exploring the risks of the repo market by Viral Acharya and T. Sabri Öncü is referenced in a Nasdaq article.

Excerpt from Nasdaq.com:

The paper, presented last month at the Federal Reserve Board’s conference on central banking and … Continue reading →

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