Acharya. Viral V. C.V. Starr Professor of Economics, Department of Finance Director of Doctoral Education at NYU Stern (2025-) Advisor (2024-) and Co-director (2023-24) of the NYU Stern Henry Kaufman Initiative on Financial History, Fall 2023-2026 Deputy Governor, Reserve Bank of India (23rd Jan 2017 to 23 July 2019) 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 Bio Policy Bio Email:  vva1@stern.nyu.edu Office: KMEC 9-65 44 West Fourth Street Suite 9-190 New York, NY 10012-1126

Education:

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

Teaches:

• Financial History of the US: From the Panic of 1907 to Silicon Valley Bank (Undergraduate and MBA)
• Bankruptcy and Credit Risk (Undergraduate and MBA)
• Corporate Finance Theory - Part II (Finance PhD Core)
• Nexus of Sovereign and Financial Risks (PhD Elective)

Research Interests:

• Pandemics – International Trade, Vaccines, and Dash for Cash.
• Climate Change – Transition Risks and the Pricing of Physical Risks.
• Banking – Liquidity, Crises (including sovereign crises and pandemics), Systemic Risk, Regulation, Shadow Banking, Diversification of Loan Portfolios.
• Corporate Finance – Cash Management, Incentive Compensation, Bankruptcy Systems, Innovation, Private Equity and Corporate Governance.
• Asset Pricing – Causes and Effects of Liquidity Risk, Disclosure, Insider Trading, Pandemics.
• Valuation and Hedging of Corporate and Sovereign Debt and Credit Derivatives.
• International Finance – Law, Innovation, Debt, Growth, Taxation, Sovereign Debt, Capital Controls and Trade.
• General Equilibrium – Agency, Contracts and Default.

Newly Released:

• (NEW) "Tariff War Shock and the Convenience Yield of US Treasuries -- A Hedging Perspective" (with Toomas Laarits), 23rd April 2025, revised May 2025
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