Mahendrarajah Nimalendran

Mahendrarajah Nimalendran

  • John H. and Mary Lou Dasburg Chair
  • Full Professor

Location

  • Warrington College of Business
  • Eugene F. Brigham Finance, Insurance and Real Estate Department
  • Master of Finance and Technology
  • Stuzin Hall 303C
CV

Dr. Mahendrarajah Nimalendran (Nimal) is the John H. and Mary Lou Dasburg Chair and Professor of Finance at the Warrington College of Business, University of Florida. Nimal has taught at the University of Florida since 1990, and he was a Visiting Academic Scholar at the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) from August 2004 to December 2005. He earned his Ph.D. in finance from the University of Michigan and his undergraduate degree in Engineering from the University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka. Nimal’s area of expertise is market microstructure, and he served as an associate editor of the Journal of Financial Markets. His research has been published in leading finance and economics journals including the Journal of Finance, the Journal of Financial Economics, the Review of Financial Studies, the Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, and the Journal of Econometrics. His recent research has focused on the microstructure of cryptocurrency and derivative markets, high-frequency trading, and applications of machine learning and AI in finance. While at the SEC, Nimal worked on projects involving market regulation, market structures and execution quality, valuation of employee stock options, and issues related to disclosure of information.

Expertise and interest areas

  • Asset pricing models
  • Econometrics
  • Empirical Methods in Finance
  • Information Economics
  • Investments
  • Market Microstructure
  • ML/AI

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Courses taught

  • Advanced DBA Research (FIN7978)
  • Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning Applications for Finance & FINTECH (FIN6779)
  • Corporate Finance (FIN6425)
  • Corporation Finance (FIN6425)
  • Derivative Securities (FIN6537)
  • Independent Research (FIN4905)
  • Special Topics (FIN4934)
  • Special Topics in Finance (FIN6930)

Education

    • Ph.D, Finance, General., University of Michigan, 1989
    • MBA, Finance, General., University of Michigan, 1985
    • M.S.M.E., Materials Engineering., University of Hawaii, 1977
    • B.Sc., Mechanical Engineering., University of Sri Lanka, 1971

Conference proceeding publications

  • Informational Efficiency Of Cryptocurrency Markets
    • Journal: Financial Management Association Annual Meeting (FMA)
    • Status: Published
    • Date: 2021
    • Authors: Mariia Petryk, Liangfei Qiu, Praveen A. Pathak, Nimalendran Mahendrarajah

Journal article publications

  • “Betting On Elusive Returns: Retail Trading In Complex Options”
    • Journal: Working Paper
    • Status: In Progress
    • Date: 2026
    • Authors: Mahendrarajah Nimalendran
  • Informational Efficiency Of Cryptocurrency Markets
    • Journal: Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis
    • Status: Published
    • Date: 2025
    • Authors: Mahendrarajah Nimalendran, Praveen Ashok. Pathak, Mariia Petryk, Liangfei Qiu
  • High-Frequency Trading In The Stock Market And The Costs Of Options Market Making
    • Journal: Journal of Financial Economics
    • Status: Published
    • Date: 2024
    • Authors: Mahendrarajah Nimalendran, Khaladdin Rzayev, Satchit Sagade
  • Nonstandard Errors
    • Journal: The Journal of Finance
    • Status: Published
    • Date: 2024
    • Authors: Albert J. Menkveld, Anna Dreber, Felix Holzmeister, Juergen Huber, Magnus Johannesson, Michael Kirchler, Sebastian Neusüß, Michael Razen, Utz Weitzel, David Abad-Díaz, Menachem Abudy, Tobias Adrian, Yacine Ait-Sahalia, Olivier Akmansoy, Jamie T. Alcock, Vitali Alexeev, Arash Aloosh, Livia Amato, Diego Amaya, Remco Zwinkels, Brian Roseman, Pradeep K. Yadav, Edwin Baidoo, Ingrid M. Werner, Terrence Hendershott, Dmitriy Muravyev, Mahendrarajah Nimalendran, Davidson Heath, Alex Horenstein, Ann Marie. Hibbert, Oleg P. Bondarenko, Bidisha Chakrabarty, Dacheng Xiu, Allen Carrion, Jeffrey Black, Da Huang, Subramanian Iyer, Andrew J. Patton, Stephen Rush, Marti G. Subrahmanyam, Dermot P. Murphy, Jeffrey H. Harris, Jose Alejandro. Lopez Lira Y Ramirez, Mark Seasholes, Tarun Chordia, Konstantin Sokolov, Lawrence R. Glosten, Lawrence Eugene. Harris, Robert A. Van Ness, Lubos Pastor, Shawn Mankad, Dominik Roesch, Neil D. Pearson, David Rakowski, Chukwuma C. Dim, Francis A. Longstaff, Robert A. Korajczyk, Michael Farrell, Woongsun Yoo, Marcus Painter, Paolo Pasquariello, Mikhail Chernov, Yuehua Tang, Andriy Shkilko, Anne Haubo. Dyhrberg
  • Seasoned Public Offerings And Adverse Selection Costs
    • Journal: Journal of Law and Economics
    • Status: Rejected/Withdrawn
    • Date: 2021
    • Authors:
  • Order Flow Fragmentation And Flight-To-Transparency During Stressed Market Conditions: Evidence From Covid-19
    • Journal: Finance Research Letters
    • Status: Published
    • Date: 2021
    • Authors: Giulio Anselmi, Mahendrarajah Nimalendran, Giovanni Petrella