Nitish Kumar

Nitish Kumar

Assistant Professor

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Contact details

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

Bio

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.

Education All years

  • PhD, The University of Chicago, 2015

Courses taught Last 3 years

  • Equity and Capital Mkt (FIN4504)

PhD students advised Last 3 years

  • Jing Lu — 2019 — Current
  • Charles Gavin Pearson — 2022 — 2024
  • Cheng Zhang — 2022 — 2024
  • Mingyin Zhu — 2023 — 2024
  • Manvendra Tiwari — 2021 — 2022
  • Mustafa Emin — 2021 — 2022
  • MANVENDRA TIWARI — 2018 — 2021
  • MUSTAFA EMIN — 2018 — 2021

Professional service Last 5 years

  • Book/Textbook Reviewer/Referee, Journal of Corporate Finance — 2023 to 2024
  • Book/Textbook Reviewer/Referee, Review of Financial Studies — 2023 to 2024
  • Book/Textbook Reviewer/Referee, Journal of Banking and Finance — 2023
  • Book/Textbook Reviewer/Referee, Journal of Financial Intermediation — 2023
  • Book/Textbook Reviewer/Referee, Review of Corporate Finance Studies — 2023
  • Book/Textbook Reviewer/Referee, Review of Economics and Statistics — 2023
  • Committee Member, Financial Management Association Annual Meeting 2022 — 2022

Book chapter publications Last 5 years

  • Sustainable Private Capital Markets
    Status: Published
    Published Year: 2023
    Authors: Sehoon Kim, Nitish Kumar, Jongsub Lee, Junho Oh

Journal article publications Last 5 years

  • “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
  • The Decline of Secured Debt
    Status: Published
    Journal: Journal of Finance
    Published Year: 2024
    Authors: Nitish Kumar, Efraim Benmelech, Raghuram Rajan
  • ESG Lending
    Status: 1st Revise and Resubmit
    Journal: Journal of Financial Economics
    Published Year: 2023
    Authors: Sehoon Kim, Nitish Kumar, Jongsub Lee, Junho Oh
  • 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
  • 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
  • Prime (information) brokerage
    Status: Published
    Journal: Journal of Financial Economics
    Published Year: 2020
    Authors: Nitish Kumar, Kevin Mullally, Sugata Ray, Yuehua Tang
  • Political Interference and Crowding Out in Bank Lending
    Status: Published
    Journal: Journal of Financial Intermediation
    Published Year: 2019
    Author: Nitish Kumar