Faculty Member, Management
Krannert School of Management
About
Professor Rau is Associate Professor of Finance at Purdue University and is currently visiting Professor of Finance at the University of California at Berkeley. His primary research interest is centered on how participants in markets acquire and use information. His most recent major publications investigated why mutual funds close their doors to new investors and whether analysts change their opinions of their covered firms depending on the firm they are employed at. In 1996, he won the Competitive Award for Business Finance and the Best of the Best Award from the Financial Management Association for the paper “Glamour, Value and Post-Acquisition Performance of Acquiring Firms.” In 2000, he won the Barclays Global Investors Award from the European Finance Association for the paper “A Rose.com by any other name.” In addition to Purdue University, Professor Rau has also taught at UCLA, and the Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris, among other schools. He received Krannert’s Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching Award in 2001, and also won a John and Mary Willis Young Faculty Scholar Award. Over the past year, Professor Rau worked as a researcher at Barclays Global Investors, the largest money manager in the world, and held a ring-side seat during the quant fund meltdown, getting personal experience of how a firm engages in corporate restructuring, conducts layoffs, mergers or a split-off. He is a member of the American Finance Association, European Finance Association, European Financial Management Association, the Financial Management Association, the French Finance Association, and the Western Finance Association.
Contact Information
http://www.mgmt.purdue.edu/faculty/rau
310-362-6793
