Ramesh Rao
Ramesh Rao
CURRENT POSITION
PAST POSITIONS
Indiana University
Associate Instructor (1975 – 1978)
EDUCATION
Paper entitled "Marketing Initiatives, Expected Cash Flows, and Shareholders' Wealth," with N.
Bharadwaj, published in the Journal of Marketing, was chosen by the Journal's Editorial Board as
finalist (top 3) for the Harold H. Maynard Award which "recognizes the Journal of Marketing article
that makes the most significant contribution to marketing theory and thought within the calendar
year."
Paper entitled "Contract Heterogeneity, Operating Shortfalls and Corporate Cash Holdings: Theory
and Empirical Evidence," with Woochan Kim, chosen for the Outstanding Paper Award (plaque and
cash award of KW2,500,000) at the Third International Conference on Asia-Pacific Financial
Markets, 2008.
RESEARCH
"Capital Acquisition Under Informational Asymmetry: A Screening Model that Admits Any
Assumption about the Nature of Private Information and Security Space" with Vipin Agrawal,
expected submission to the Journal of Economic Theory by Jan 30, 2010.
Working Papers:
"A Precondition for Justifying Informationally Efficient Stock Prices," with V. Agrawal
"Contract Heterogeneity, Operating Shortfalls, and Corporate Cash Holdings," with J. Hao and W.
Kim
Published:
"Shareholders' Wealth-Maximizing Opearating Decisions and Risk Management Practices in a Mixed
Contracts Economy" with G. Gutierrez, forthcoming, Production and Operations Management,
2010.
"Marketing Initiatives, Expected Cash Flows, and Shareholders' Wealth," with N. Bharadwaj, Journal
of Marketing, January 2008.
A Theory of the Firm's Cost of Capital: How Debt Affects the Firm's Risk, Value, Tax Rate, and the
Government's Tax Claim, with Eric Stevens. World Scientific Publishing Company, 2007
"The Firm's Cost of Capital, Its Effective Marginal Tax Rate, and the Value of the Government's Tax
Claim," with E. Stevens. Berkeley Electronic Journals: Topics in Economic Analysis & Policy,
2006, Vol. 6, No. 1, Article 3. http://www.bepress.com/bejeap/topics/vol6/iss1/art3
"The Creation of First City Financial Corporation: A Clinical Study of the Bankruptcy Process,"
with S. White. International Journal of Financial Education. This article is also published in
Principles of Corporate Renewal Casebook, H.D. Platt and M.B. Platt, eds., University of
Michigan Press.
"Bid-ask Spreads, Informed Investors, and the Firm's Financial Condition," with V. Agrawal, M.
Kothare, and P. Wadhwa. The Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance, Vol. 44, 2004, pp.
58-76.
"The Effect of Deteriorating Financial Performance on Director Liability," with D. Sokolow and D.
White. Directorship, Vol. 33, No.1, January 1997.
"The Dividend Payouts of Private Firms: Evidence from Tax Court Records," with S. White, Journal
of Financial Research, Vol. 17, winter 1994.
"Shareholder Wealth Effects of Liability Limitation Provisions," with Yaron Brook, Journal of
Financial and Quantitative Analysis, September 1994.
"Does Limiting Directors' Liability Affect Stock Prices?" with Y. Brook, Directorship, April 1994.
"Subsidization among S&Ls under the Flat Rate Deposit Insurance System: Some Empirical
Estimates," with A. Burnett and Seha Tinic. Journal of Financial Services Research, 1991.
"Predicting Stock Returns from Option Pricing Models: An Exploratory Investigation," with E.
Ancel. Journal of Financial Research, 1990.
"Estimation Risk and Adaptive Behavior in the Pricing of Options," with C.B. Barry and D.W.
French, Financial Review, 1990.
"Asset Pricing in a Generalized Mean-Lower Partial Moment Framework: Theory and Evidence,"
with Van Harlow, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Vol. 24, No. 3, September
1989.
"Mean-Lower Partial Moment Valuation with Lognormally Distributed Returns." With W.Y. Lee.
Management Science, April 1988.
"Determinants of the Foreign Exchange Bias: A New Methodology." With S.D. Smith. Current
Economic and Financial Issues of the North American and Caribbean Countries, 1983.
"The Impact of Yield Changes on the Systematic Risk of Bonds," Journal of Financial and
Quantitative Analysis, March 1982.
"Option Pricing in a Lognormal Securities Market with Discrete Trading." With W.Y. Lee and
J.F.G. Auchmuty. Journal of Financial Economics, 1981.
"The Currency of Denomination of International Trade Contracts." With S.P. Magee. Exchange
Risk and Exposure: Current Developments in International Financial Management, R.M. Levich
and C.G. Wihlborg, eds., D.C. Health & Co. 1980.
"Vehicle and Non-Vehicle Currencies in International Trade." With S.P. Magee. American
Economic Review, May 1980.
"Risk-Neutral and Non Risk-Neutral Call Option Prices: A Synthesis," Proceedings of the
Southwestern Finance Association, March 1978.
"Another Look at the Use of Options Pricing Theory to Evaluate Real Asset Investment
Opportunities," with J. Martin. Journal of Business Finance & Accounting, 1981, Vol. 8, No. 3.
BOOKS
Financial Management Concepts and Applications. 3rd. Ed., South-Western Publishing Company,
Cincinnati, OH, 1995.
Financial Management Concepts and Applications. 2nd. Ed., Macmillan Publishing Company, New
York, November 1991.
Instructors' Manual for Fundamentals of Investing by Gitman and Joehnk, Harper and Row, 1981.
Airport Management Handbook. With Michael Crum. Published by the Aeronautics Commission of
Indiana, 1978.
"Book Review of Alan Shapiro's International Financial Management." With S.D.Smith. Journal of
Finance, December 1983.
"Fixed Income Security Swaps and Holding Period Yields." With E. Hennigar. Federal Home Loan
Bank Report.
"Imputing Rationality to some Common Rules-of-Thumb." Financial Management Letters, Vol. 17,
No. 3, autumn 1988.
"Four Popular Misconceptions about Fixed and Floating Exchange Rates." With S.P. Magee.
Prepared for the Institute of Free Enterprise.
EDITOR/REFEREE ROLES
Ad hoc Referee for: Journal of Finance, Journal of Business, Journal of Economic Dynamics and
Control, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Management Science, Journal of Business
Research, Journal of Empirical Finance, Journal of Marketing. .American Business Law Journal,
Decision Sciences, Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of Risk and Insurance, Journal
of Economics and Business, Managerial and Decision Sciences, Financial Management, Journal of
Financial Education, Journal of Marketing Research, Quarterly Journal of Business and Economics,
Journal of Business and Economic Studies, Global Finance Journal.
TEACHING HONORS
Outstanding Faculty Award, Mexico City MBA Program. For "Extraordinary Contributions to the
Enhancement of his Students' Professional Performance" (inscription on plaque), 2005
Joe Beasley Teaching Award, 1985 (MBA Teaching) ($1000 cash plus plaque)
Jack Taylor Award for Teaching Excellence, 1987 (Teaching at all levels) ($3,000 cash plus plaque)
CBA Foundation Award for Excellence in Education, University of Texas, presented fall 1992
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Expert Witness on Valuation Methodologies in the American Express v. Visa et al. anitrust litigation,
2007.
Advised defense counsel on the economics underlying plaintiff's lawsuit against defendants Fidelity
Investments and Skadden Arps, 1997
Advisor to the CEO (on securities trading firm growth plans and business strategy), Block Trading
Company, Houston, TX, summer 1997
Advised lead defense counsel in U.S. Attorney General's (New York) investigation of Prudential
Bache Energy Income Funds, August 1996
Sole Valuation Expert, Bankruptcy Reorganization of First City Bancorproation, appointed by Judge
Harold Abramson, Federal Bankruptcy Court, 1995
Parker and Parks, LLP. Valuation Issues Related to Concrete Manufacturing Company.
Designed in-house programs for Enron Capital and Trade (ECT); advised Enron on other matters
relating to the firm's financial performance
Provided advice on Tax Shield Valuation Issues for Burlington Northern Railroad
Expert analysis of international arbitrage transactions involving major international banks, for
Oppenheimer, Blend, Harrision, and Tate
Provided corporate valuation of bankrupt firm for the Law Offices of Baker and Botts
Program Committee Member and Speaker, 1990 Valuation of Assets in Bankruptcy Conference,
University of Texas Law School
Advised the Office of the Attorney General of New Mexico, Economic Crimes Division, July-
September 1980
Project involved advising the Attorney General's office and negotiating on his behalf in a leveraged
lease arrangement between a public utility company and a major national bank.
Conducted a three-day program "Finance for Non-Financial Managers" for U.T. Austin
Associated Press Interviews, Bloomberg New Wire, National Public Radio, etc.
The Fourth Mini-Conference on Integrated Risk Management in Operations and Global Supply
Chains, Washington University, St. Louis, June 2007
Integrated Finance and Operations Management Workshop, Carnegie Mellon University, August 21-
22, 2006
Invited Speaker, The Board Room, Austin Diagnostic Clinic Medical Panel, on Financial Aspects of
Hospital Management, 2009.
Delivered three talks entitled "Financial Management Update" for Enron Corporation, summer 1995.
Over 300 Enron employees signed up to attend.
Invited by the Measurement and Evaluation Center to address the new faculty of the University of
Texas, 1991.
Panelist and Speaker, Economic Aspects of Bankruptcy, Conference on the Valuation of Assets in
Bankruptcy, University of Texas School of Law, 1989.
National Seminar Speaker, Arthur Young and Company, Reston, Virginia, October 1984.
Paper "Estimation Risk and Adaptive Behavior in the Pricing of Options," presented (by co-author) at
the NBER-NSF Seminar on Bayesian Inference in Econometrics, May 1980.
Invited Speaker, Finance Seminar Series, New York University, February 1980.
Invited Panelist and Lead speaker, Financial Management Association, session on "Bond Portfolio
Management and Measurement," New Orleans, October 1980.
Invited speaker at the "Conference of Exchange Risk and Exposure," Sponsored by the Salamon
Brothers Center for the Study of Financial Institutions, New York University, February 1979.
Invited to present papers at the University of Chicago, Texas A&M University, the University of
Houston, and Southern Methodist University.
Taught in the UT-Mexico City MBA Program, Mexico City, 2002- Present
Organized and conducted several sessions of executive education program for CEMEX Corporation,
Monterrey, Mexico, 1993.
Arthur Young and Company, July 1984, Conducted in-house educational programs for partners.
International Management Program for Oilfield Related Businesses, Abidjan, Ivory Coast of Africa,
January 1983.
Speaker, Fourth International Management Program at Cranfield, Cranfield, U.K., August 1982.
Participant, Management Development Program, Singapore (in Cooperation with the National
University of Singapore), May 1981.
Speaker, Third Annual International Management Program for Foreign National and Expatriate
Managers of Oil Field-Related Companies, Penang, Malaysia, May 1981.
Designed, developed, and conducted courses in Foreign Exchange for Chase Texas Bank for almost
six years.
MISCELLANEOUS
Chair of Panel on Financing at the "Doing Business in India: the Texas Connection" Conference,
sponsored by the College of Business and the Institute of Constructive Capitalism, Fall 1996.
Outside Evaluator for Promotion and Tenure for candidates: University of Colorado, Denver,
University of Virginia, University of New Mexico, Temple University, and Georgia Tech.
Paper Reviewer, Second Annual Texas Symposium, Rice University, Texas, 1990.
THESIS SUPERVISION
"Market Structure, Default Risk, and Swap Spreads: International Evidence." Frank Fehle,
dissertation co-chaired with Sheridan Titman, May1999.
"Organizational Form and Firm Values: The Case of Captive Finance Subsidiaries." Atul Gupta,
1985.
"Asset Pricing in a Mean-Generalized LPM Framework: Empirical Tests." Van Harlow, 1986.
"Estimates of the Statistical Parameters of Stock Returns Implied by the L-R-A Options Model."
Esther Ancel, 1985.
"Tax Penalty Implications of Dividend Policy and Regulatory Influences on Merger Activity." S.
White, 1990.
As Committee Member
Relationship Lending in the Mexican Small-Business-bank Interaction, Fernando Moya, ITESM,
Mexico City.
"Market Structure, Default Risk and Swap Spreads: International Evidence." Frank Fehle, 1999.
"On the Cost of False Signaling: The Reputation of the Investment Banker and the Economic
Consequences of Litigation Activities." Beom-Sik Jang.
"Management Compensation and the Performance of the Firm: An Empirical Analysis." Kenneth
Wiles, 1991.
"An Analytical and Empirical Examination of Economic Determinants of the Auditor Reporting
Decision." Jack Wilkerson, (Accounting) 1984.
"Capital Budgeting: Applications of the Pure-Play Technique." L.F. Gutierrez Rocca, 1986.
"Recent Innovations in the Financial Markets: A Closer Look at Five Contracts." M. Babalian,
1984.
"Prior and Posterior Analysis and the Binomial Option pricing Formula." K. S. Wong, 1980.
July 2012