Degrees

• Ph.D. University of Michigan
• PGDBA Indian Institute of Management

About

Professor Kadapakkam’s research has been published in leading journals such as the Journal of Finance, Review of Financial Studies, Journal of Business, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Journal of Banking and Finance, Financial Management ,  Journal of Financial Research and Financial Review. His research has been recognized at UTSA with the President’s Distinguished Achievement Award (2001), and the Col. Jean Piccione and Lt. Col. Philip Piccione Endowed Research Award (2008). He has served as an Associate Editor, Financial Review and on the Board of Advisers for the Financial Management Association’s Survey and Synthesis series.

Professor Kadapakkam currently teaches the Corporate Valuation course at the graduate level and Intermediate Corporate Finance at the undergraduate level. He is the recipient of several teaching awards from the UTSA MBA Association. He also received the E. Lou Curry Teaching Excellence Award from the College of Business in 2010.

Research Interests

• Firm Financial Policies
• Market Anomalies
• Supply Chain Links

Selected Publications

• “Pay for Performance, Partnership Success, and the Internal Organization of Venture Capital Firms” (with Karan Bhanot), Journal of Corporate Finance, 75, 2022, 102246
• Stability of Supplier-Customer Relationship and Supplier Capital Structure (with M.G. Oliveira), Journal of Banking and Finance 130, September 2021, 106183.
• “Effects of Customer Financial Distress on Supplier Capital Structure,” with M. Oliveira and M. Beyhaghi, Journal of Corporate Finance, Vol. 42, February 2017, pp. 131-149.
• “The Debt Trap: Wealth Transfers and Capital Structure Choice,” with A. Meisami and J. Wald, Financial Review, 2016, Vol. 51, No. 1, pp 5-35.
•  “Investor Ignorance in Markets for Worthless Stocks,” with H. Zhang, Journal of Financial Markets, Vol. 19, 2014, p. 197-218.
•  “How do Mergers Create Value? A Comparison of Taxes, Market Power and Efficiency Improvements as Explanations for Synergies, with Erik Devos and Srinivasan Krishnamurthy,” Review of Financial Studies, March 2009, pp. 1179-1211.
•  “What’s in a Nickname?–Price and Volume Impacts of a Pure Ticker Symbol Change, with L. Misra,” Journal of Financial Research, Spring 2007, pp. 53-71.
• “Anatomy of a Government Intervention in Index Stocks–Price Pressure or Information Effects?,” with K. Bhanot,” Journal of Business, March 2006, pp. 963-986.
• “Stock Splits, Broker Promotion and Decimalization, with S. Krishnamurthy and Y.Tse,” Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, December 2005, pp. 873-895.
• “Reduction of Constraints on Arbitrage Trading and Market Efficiency: An Examination of Ex-Day Returns in Hong Kong After Introduction of Electronic Settlement,” Journal of Finance, December 2000, pp. 2841-2861.
• “Capital Gains Taxes and Stockholders’ Response to Tender Offers: Evidence from Dutch Auction Repurchases, with S. Seth,” Financial Review, Vol. 32, Issue 3, 1997, pp. 145-166.
•  “Trading Profits in Dutch Auction Self Tender Offers, with S. Seth,” Journal of Finance, Vol. 49, March 1994, pp. 291-306.
•  “The Value of Shelf Registration for New Debt Issues, with S.J. Kon,” Journal of Business, April 1989, pp. 271 292.