Acharya, Viral V. C.V. Starr Professor of Economics, Department of Finance Director, NSE-NYU Stern Initiative on the Study of Indian Capital Markets Research Associate in Corporate Finance, National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) Research Affiliate, Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) Research Associate, European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI) Joined Stern 2008 Short Bio Email:  vacharya@stern.nyu.edu Office: KMEC 9-84 44 West Fourth Street Suite 9-190 New York, NY 10012-1126

(NEW) Understanding Financial Crises: Theory and Evidence from the Crisis of 2007-08, NBER Reporter, April 2013.

"Guaranteed to Fail: Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and the Debacle of Mortgage Finance",
Viral V Acharya, Stijn van Nieuwerburgh, Matthew Richardson and Larry White, New York University Stern School of Business
(c) Princeton University Press, March 2011
A Brief Summary of Our Proposal to Wind Down Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac
A Talk on Our Proposal delivered at the Kansas City Public Library, 30 May 2012

A Proposal for the Resolution of Systemically Important Assets and Liabilities: The Case of the Repo Market with Sabri Oncu, presented at the Federal Reserve Board of Governors conference Central Banking: Before, During and After the Crisis, in honor of Don Kohn, former Vice Chairman of the Board of Governors on March 23-24, 2012
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2011 Banque de France - Toulouse School of Economics Junior Prize in Monetary Economics and Finance
Speech delivered at the Prize Ceremony (16 March 2012)

NYU Stern Systemic Risk Rankings recognized by Treasury and Risk 2011 in "100 Most Influential People in Finance"
- Measuring and Regulating Systemic Risk
- Also see NYU Stern Systemic Risk Rankings
- NYU Stern VLAB releases its Global Systemic Risk Rankings
     - Download presentation made at New York Fed on 17 November 2011

The Latest from NYU-Stern: e-book "Dodd-Frank One Year On"
(edited by Viral V Acharya, Thomas Cooley, Matthew Richardson and Ingo Walter)

"Regulating Wall Street: The Dodd-Frank Act and the New Architecture of Global Finance",
Viral Acharya, Thomas Cooley, Matt Richardson and Ingo Walter, co-editors, New York University Stern School of Business
(c) John Wiley and Sons, November 2010
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Education:

• PhD          Finance, New York University Stern School of Business, 2001
• B. Tech.   Computer Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, 1995

Teaches:

• Credit Risk

Research Interests:

• Regulation of banks and financial institutions
• Corporate Finance
• Credit risk and valuation of corporate debt
• Asset pricing with a focus on the effects of liquidity risk
• International Finance