Awards

Titled Professor - 2025

Richard E. Jacobs Chair in Finance

About Nandini Gupta

Nandini Gupta is Professor of Finance and the Richard E. Jacobs Chair in Finance at Indiana University’s Kelley School of Business. She is also a Senior Research Fellow at Columbia University’s Deepak and Neera Raj Center on the Indian Economy. Her research examines how politics influence corporate behavior and financial markets, with a focus on the impact of political polarization on finance, corporate political activity, privatization, financial development, banking competition, and the relationship between labor and finance.

Her publications appear in leading journals, including the Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Economics, the Review of Financial Studies, and the Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis. Recent projects have examined political polarization in financial news, access to finance and household resilience to natural disasters, and political polarization in supply chains.

Gupta serves as Associate Editor at the Review of Finance and the Journal of Banking and Finance and previously as Editor at the International Review of Finance. She co-chaired Indiana University’s Holden Conference in Finance and regularly serves on program committees for major conferences, including WFA, EFA, and FIRS. Her policy engagement includes advising the World Bank and serving on Columbia University’s Initiative for Policy Dialogue Taskforce on Privatization.

An award-winning teacher, she has taught in the undergraduate, MBA, and Ph.D. programs in finance at the Kelley School of Business, Indiana University, the Ross School of Business, University of Michigan, and the University of Pittsburgh, and has advised doctoral students in finance, economics, and political science. She holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Pittsburgh and a B.Sc. in Economics from Presidency University, India.