
Avanidhar Subrahmanyam is Goldyne and Irwin Hearsh Chair in Finance, The Anderson School, UCLA, Los Angeles. Dr. Subrahmanyam, a Ph. D. in Finance from UCLA in 1990, is an expert in behavioral finance and economics, who is known for his path-breaking research in the use of psychological principles to explain stock price movements.
Dr. Subrahmanyam is the co-editor of the Journal of Financial Markets, and has served as associate editor of Review of Financial Studies and as a consultant to the Nasdaq Stock Market, the National Stock Exchange in Mumbai, San Jose Mercury News, and Irwin/McGraw-Hill.
Avanidhar Subrahmanyam will speak on "Trends in Behavioral Finance" at IFC 2009.