Nitish Kumar

University of Florida
Warrington College of Business
Finance, Insurance and Real Estate Department
Stuzin Hall 312

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Nitish Kumar is an Assistant Professor of Finance at Warrington College of Business, University of Florida. He received a Ph.D. in Finance from the Booth School of Business, University of Chicago in 2015. Before that, he earned an MBA degree from Anderson School of Management, UCLA and a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras, India. Kumar’s primary research interests are in corporate finance, financial intermediation, and political economy of firms and banks.

• PhD, The University of Chicago, 2015

• For Corporations, Secured Debt Is Out — August 26, 2024 — Secured debt was once the most common type of debt issued by U.S. corporations. But that’s no longer the case. The issuance of secured deb...
• University of Florida finance faculty research among most read, according to Financial Times — July 11, 2023 — GAINESVILLE, Fla. – Inquiring academic and business minds into the latest and greatest research are looking to the work of two University...
• Exposing the dual role of mutual funds in connection with investment banks — May 18, 2023 — GAINESVILLE, Fla. – Institutional investors and investment banks are two key players in today’s financial system. The relationship betwe...
• New study highlights the real cost of political interference in banking — February 11, 2020 — GAINESVILLE, Fla. – Banks across the world have long faced a common threat – political interference. Previous studies have shown that th...
• The decline in secured debt — January 30, 2020 — Assistant Professor of Finance Nitish Kumar “What role does collateral play in corporate borrowing?” ask Assistant Professor of Finance...

• Equity and Capital Mkt (FIN4504)
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• Jing Lu — 2019 — Current
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• Charles Gavin Pearson — 2022 — 2025
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• Mingyin Zhu — 2023 — 2025
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• Cheng Zhang — 2022 — 2024
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• Manvendra Tiwari — 2021 — 2022
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• Mustafa Emin — 2021 — 2022
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• Book/Textbook Reviewer/Referee, Journal of Corporate Finance — 2023 to 2024
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• Book/Textbook Reviewer/Referee, Review of Financial Studies — 2023 to 2024
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• Book/Textbook Reviewer/Referee, Journal of Banking and Finance — 2023
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• Book/Textbook Reviewer/Referee, Journal of Financial Intermediation — 2023
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• Book/Textbook Reviewer/Referee, Review of Corporate Finance Studies — 2023
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• Book/Textbook Reviewer/Referee, Review of Economics and Statistics — 2023
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• Committee Member, Financial Management Association Annual Meeting 2022 — 2022
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• Sustainable Private Capital Markets
  Status: Published
  Published Year: 2023
  Authors: Sehoon Kim, Nitish Kumar, Jongsub Lee, Junho Oh
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• “Inter-firm Relationships and the Special Role of Common Banks”
  Status: Published
  Journal: Journal of Financial Intermediation
  Published Year: 2024
  Authors: Andy Naranjo, Nitish Kumar, Emanuela Giocomini
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• The Decline of Secured Debt
  Status: Published
  Journal: Journal of Finance
  Published Year: 2024
  Authors: Nitish Kumar, Efraim Benmelech, Raghuram Rajan
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• ESG Lending
  Status: 2nd Revise and Resubmit
  Journal: Journal of Financial Economics
  Published Year: 2023
  Authors: Sehoon Kim, Nitish Kumar, Jongsub Lee, Junho Oh
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• Customers as Friendly Shareholders: Uncovering the Complex Mutual Fund-Broker Relationship
  Status: Accepted
  Journal: Management Science
  Accepted Year: 2023
  Authors: Nitish Kumar, Yuehua Tang, Kelsey Wei
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• The Secured Credit Premium and the Issuance of Secured Debt
  Status: Published
  Journal: Journal of Financial Economics
  Published Year: 2022
  Authors: Nitish Kumar, Efraim Benmelech, Raghuram Rajan
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• Prime (information) brokerage
  Status: Published
  Journal: Journal of Financial Economics
  Published Year: 2020
  Authors: Nitish Kumar, Kevin Mullally, Sugata Ray, Yuehua Tang
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