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'''Raghavendra Rau''' holds the [[Sir Evelyn de Rothschild Professorship of Finance]] at the [[Judge Business School]] at the [[University of Cambridge]]. He is the current Finance and Accounting subject group head at the school and a director of the Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance.

Before joining the University of Cambridge, Rau was an academic in the US teaching at universities such as the [[University of California at Berkeley]], the [[University of California at Los Angeles]] and [[Purdue University]]. He received his undergraduate degree in chemistry from [[Delhi University]] in 1987, an [[MBA]] from [[IIM Bangalore]] in 1989, and a Ph.D. degree from [[INSEAD]] in 1997. He is a past President of the [[European finance association|European Finance Association]] and the program chair for the annual 40th anniversary meetings of the [[European finance association|European Finance Association]] meetings in Cambridge.

He is known for his research on [[market efficiency]]. His most heavily cited papers have been a paper that showed how glamour acquirers (acquirers with a high market-to-book ratio) underperformed relative to value acquirers in the long-term after making an acquisition,<ref>https://ssrn.com/abstract=262687</ref> how firms that added a dotcom to the ends of their names during the 1999-2001 dotcom bubble experienced a surge in their stock prices,<ref>https://ssrn.com/abstract=242376</ref> and how firms in Hong Kong tunnel value away from their minority shareholders using related party transactions.<ref>https://ssrn.com/abstract=1008780</ref>

He is a past editor of ''Financial Management'',<ref>http://www.fma.org/Publications/FM/FMIndex.htm</ref> and Associate Editor of the ''International Review of Finance'' and the ''Quarterly Journal of Finance''. He won the Ig Nobel Prize in Management<ref>http://www.improbable.com/ig/winners/#ig2015</ref> in 2015 for his paper "What does not kill you will only make you risk-loving: Early-life disasters and CEO behavior".

==References==
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* "Dealing With an Emerging Markets Overdose", ''Wall Street Journal'', 13 January 2010
* "Pharaoh capitalism", ''The Economist'', 12 February 2009

==External links==
* [http://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/research/faculty/rau.html Homepage at University of Cambridge]
* [http://www.raghurau.com Personal Homepage]
* [http://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/research/faculty/rau.html Full academic vita]
* [http://www.efa2013.org The Annual European Finance Association meetings]
* [http://www.fma.org/Publications/FM/FMIndex.htm Financial Management Association]
* [https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=58471 Author page at the Social Science Research Network]
* [http://www.elrothschild.com/community/philanthropy Eranda Foundation Grant details]

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