Vijay Singal

Dr. Singal’s past and current research covers three major areas: irregularities related to market efficiency, international finance, and resolving finance-related issues using data from one industry, but from financial and product markets. In addition to his research, he has a book titled “Beyond the Random Walk: A Guide to Market Anomalies and Low Risk Strategies” published by Oxford University Press (hardcover, 2004; paperback, 2006).

His research has been published in top quality journals such as the American Economic Review, Journal of Business, Journal of Finance, Financial Management, and the Journal of Financial Economics, and in practitioner journals such as Journal of Applied Corporate Finance, Journal of Banking and Finance, Journal of Portfolio Management, Financial Analysts Journal, and Journal of Investment Management. His research has been featured on television (CNN-FN), on radio (National Public Radio, Bloomberg Radio), and in print media such as the Wall Street Journal, Barron’s, Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, New York Times, Investor’s Business Daily, SmartMoney, Fortune, and Money.

Dr. Singal’s primary teaching area is Investments. In the past, he has taught International Finance. Dr. Singal was the Program Leader for the first-ever residential summer study abroad program of the school and has led 2 summer study abroad programs to Freiburg, Germany.

Dr. Singal worked for ten years for Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) in India prior to joining academia. Some of his responsibilities included negotiating foreign currency syndicated loans, managing foreign exchange risk, and negotiating contracts with shipyards in Norway, Singapore, France and Japan.

Areas of Expertise

• Market mispricing and anomalies
• Emerging markets
• Currency risk management