Aswath Damodaran

Updated at: April 11, 2011, 3:07 p.m.

Professor Damodaran has been at NYU since 1986, received the Stern School of Business Excellence in Teaching Award (awarded by the graduating class) in 1988, 1991 and 1992, and was the youngest winner of the University-wide Distinguished Teaching Award (in 1990). He was a visiting lecturer at the University of California, Berkeley (1984 ­1986), where he received the Earl Cheit Outstanding Teaching Award in 1985. He was profiled in Business Week as one of the top twelve business school professors in the United States in 1994. He has extensive teaching experience in executive training worldwide.

His research interests include the examination of market efficiency, the effects of information and market structure characteristics, as well as equity valuation and issues in real estate investing.

Professor Damodaran has published in the Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, the Journal of Finance, the Journal of Financial Economics and the Review of Financial Studies.

He has written two books on equity valuation: Damodaran on Valuation, 1994, Investment Valuation, 1995 and two on corporate finance: Corporate Finance: Theory and Practice, 1996, Applied Corporate Finance: A User's Manual, 1996.

He has co-edited a book on investment management: Investment Management (with Peter Bernstein), 1996.

He is currently working on a book on investment philosophies.


Related Books

Corporate Finance: Theory and Practice 2nd Ed.