Amber Anand
Associate Professor of Finance
Whitman School of Management
Syracuse University
Phone: 315.443.3913
Email: amanand@syr.edu
Amber is an Associate Professor of Finance at the Whitman
School of Management at Syracuse University where he started his
academic career in 2001. He received his Ph.D.
in Finance from Baruch College and the Graduate Center of the City
University of New York. In addition to holding academic
appointments, Amber has been a visiting academic scholar at the
Securities and Exchange Commission, and worked in investment
banking. He currently serves as an
associate editor for the Financial Review.
Research Interests: Market
microstructure, with a focus on market design, the role of market
intermediaries, transaction cost measurement, price discovery, and
trading strategies of informed investors. Amber has published or
forthcoming papers in journals such as the Journal of Financial
Economics, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis,
the Review of Financial
Studies
and the Journal of Financial Markets.
Teaching: Various electives as well as core classes
to undergraduate, MBA, iMBA and Ph.D. students. For his teaching,
Amber has received the Whitman School of Management award for
exceptional teaching and the Oberwager award for mentoring
undergraduate students.
Awards:
- Best Paper in Market Microstructure Award, Financial
Management Association (2010)
- Whitman Research Fellowship (2010-2012)
- Oberwager award for undergraduate student mentoring (2005)
- School of Management Award for exceptional teaching (2003)
- Oscar Lasdon Award for the best dissertation in the area of
Finance or Business, Baruch College, CUNY (2001-2002)
- Nasdaq Dissertation Fellowship (2000-2001)