Manish Jha
Assistant Professor Department of Finance- Education
- PhD in Finance, Washington University in St. Louis 2016–2021
- Bachelors in Technology, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur 2008–2012
- Specializations
- artificial intelligence
- corporate governance
- financial technology
- machine learning
- text analysis
- Biography
Manish Jha is an Assistant Professor of Finance at the J. Mack Robinson College of Business, Georgia State University. He teaches FI 4020 and FI 8092. His research has been published in academic journals, including the Journal of Banking and Finance, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, and Review of Financial Studies, and has been featured in media outlets such as Bloomberg, Chicago Booth Promarket, Columbia Blue Sky Blog, Harvard Corporate Governance Blog, VoxEU, and The Washington Post. Before pursuing an academic career, Manish worked in options trading and sovereign bond research. He holds a Ph.D. in Finance from Washington University in St. Louis and a Bachelor of Technology from the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur. Feel free to reach him via email.
- Publications
- Does Finance Benefit Society? A Language Embedding Approach with Hongyi Liu, and Asaf Manela, Review of Financial Studies, forthcoming
- Do Activists Align with Larger Mutual Funds?, Journal of Banking and Finance, forthcoming
- Natural Disaster Effects on Popular Sentiment toward Finance with Hongyi Liu, and Asaf Manela, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Volume 56, Issue 7, November 2021, pp. 2584-2604