Faculty Profile

Assistant Professor of Finance (Education); Senate Secretary

LKCSBFull-time Faculty

Email
aurobindo@smu.edu.sg

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College of Integrative Studies
- Economics, Governance and Society
- - Economics
Lee Kong Chian School of Business
- Business Education
- Corporate Social Responsibility
- Finance
- - Asset Pricing and Capital Markets
  - Corporate Finance and Corporate Governance
  - Financial Innovation and FinTech
  - Hedge Funds and Private Equity
  - Behavioural Finance
  - Wealth Management
  - Real Estate Finance
- Innovation and Entrepreneurship
- Marketing
- - Consumer Behaviour
- Quantitative Finance
- - Risk Management and Quantitative Trading
  - Computational Methods and Simulations
  - Asset Allocation and Portfolio Optimisation
- Strategy and Entrepreneurship
- - Sustainable and socially responsible strategy
  - Strategic Knowledge and Innovation Management
School of Economics
- Econometrics and Data Science
- - Micro-econometrics
  - Macro-econometrics
  - Financial Econometrics

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2003	Ph.D in Economics, University of Illinois
2001	M.S. in Finance, University of Illinois
1992	Bachelor of Statistics, Indian Statistical Institute, Calcutta

2013 - Now	Assistant Professor of Finance (Education) Lee Kong Chian School of Business, Singapore Management University
2011 - 2013	Senior Lecturer of Finance Lee Kong Chian School of Business, Singapore Management University
2013 - 2016	Programme Director, Master of Science in Financial Economics, School of Economics, SMU
2011 - 2014	Program Director, Sim Kee Boon Institute for Financial Economics, Singapore Management University
2016 - Now	Principal Investigator, Citi-SMU Financial Literacy Program for Young Adults
2020 - Now	Program Director and Principal Investigator, Citi-SMU Financial Literacy Program for Young Adults

“Grades Matter in performance: Morningstar Stewardship Grade and Mutual Fund Performance” (jointly with Jeremy Goh and Ng Wee Seng) was presented and won the Best Fund Management Paper award in the Financial Markets and Corporate Governance Conference in QUT, Brisbane, Australia in April 2014.
“Did the Sarbanes-Oxley Act Impede Corporate Innovation? An Analysis of the Unintended Consequences of Regulation” (Joint with Jerry Cao, Jeremy Goh and Ted Tschang) was a semifinalist for the best paper award for Financial Institutions at the prestigious 2016 Annual Financial Management Association in Las Vegas, NV, USA (out of 1700 papers submitted)
I was nominated for 2016 Best Teacher Award for the Post Graduate Professional Program (one of six nominees across SMU)
As the founding Principal Investigator, received an external research funding from MAS and terms funds DBS for upgrading and maintaining the Singapore Index of Inflation Expectations (SInDEx) survey (2018-2019
As Principal Investigator for Research jointly raised over SGD2.4 million for Citi-SMU Financial Literacy Program for Young Adults from 2016-2020

“A Smooth Test of the Equality of Distributions,”(with Anil K. Bera and Zhijie Xiao), Econometric Theory , 29 (2), pp. 419-446 (2013)
“Neyman's Smooth Test and Its Applications in Econometrics,”(with Anil K. Bera). In: Handbook of Applied Econometrics and Statistical Inference, Ch. 10, eds., A. Ullah, A. Wan and A. Chaturvedi, Marcel Dekker: New York, pp. 170-230 (2001).
“Introductory Statistics,” (with H-K Chow, D. Leung and Y-K Tse), Pearson , Singapore , 2006.
“Neyman's Smooth Test and Its Use in Statistics and Econometrics,” (with Anil K. Bera) In the Proceedings of the International Indian Statistical Association Meetings at New Delhi, India, ed. Kanwar Sen (2000).

iCare benefits: Assisting low income retail consumers in Vietnam Part A & B, by THOMAS, Howard; GHOSH, Aurobindo; CHAN, Chi Wei. (2019). SMU-18-0031. https://cmp.smu.edu.sg/case/3836 (Published)
SureCash: Promoting financial inclusion in Bangladesh, by GHOSH, Aurobindo; BHATTACHARYA, Lipika.
(2018). SMU-18-0014 [SureCash]. https://cmp.smu.edu.sg/case/3646 (Published)