Biography
Tarun Chordia joined the Goizueta Business School in the fall of 2000. Tarun's research is grounded in both theory and empirical methods and spans a diverse area of financial economics. His teaching interests include securities and portfolios, financial institutions and fixed income markets. Prior to his doctoral studies, he worked for Citibank as a relationship and credit manager in the Financial Institutions Group.

Publications

• Chordia, Tarun, Richard Roll and Avanidhar Subrahmanyam, 2008, Liquidity and Market Efficiency, Journal of Financial Economics 87, lead article.
• Avramov, Doron, Tarun Chordia, Gergana Jostova and Alexander Philipov, 2009, Dispersion in Analysts’ Earnings Forecasts and Credit Rating,  Journal of Financial Economics 91, 83-101.
• Chordia, Tarun, Huh Sahn-Wook and Avanidhar Subrahmanyam, 2009, Theory-Based Illiquidity and Asset Pricing, Review of Financial Studies 22, 3629-3668. 
• Avramov, Doron, Tarun Chordia, Gergana Jostova and Alexander Philipov, 2009, Credit Ratings and the Cross-Section of Stock Returns, Journal of Financial Markets 12, 469-499.  

Working Papers

• Chordia, Tarun, Asani Sarkar and Avanidhar Subrahmanyam, Liquidity Dynamics and Cross-Autocorrelations.
• Brennan, Michael, Tarun Chordia, Avanidhar Subrahmanyam and Qing Tong, Sell-side Liquidity and the Cross-Section of Expected Stock Returns. 

Areas of Specialization

• Asset Pricing
• Liquidity
• Market Micro-Structure
• Financial Institutions

Achievements and Honors

• Second prize, Chicago Quantitative Alliance, IBES competition, 1996
• Second prize, Fama-DFA prize for best paper published in the Journal of Financial Economics in areas of Capital Markets and Asset Pricing, 1998.
• Winner, Fama-DFA prize for best paper published in the Journal of Financial Economics in areas of Capital Markets and Asset Pricing, 2000.
• Roger F. Murray prize 2001, The Institute for Quantitative Research in Finance, for the paper - Market Liquidity, Trading Activity and Order Imbalance.
• Caldwell Award for excellence in research, Goizueta Business School, Emory University
• Third Prize, Chicago Quantitative Alliance Academic Competition, 2003.
• Second prize, Chicago Quantitative Alliance Academic Competition, 2005.
• Jordan Researcher Award for excellence in research, Goizueta Business School, Emory University, 2005.
• Best Paper Award, Market Microstructure Track, Financial Management Association, 2005
• NYSE best paper award, Microstructure of International Financial Markets, Indian School of Business - Liquidity and Market Efficiency, 2006.

Professional Memberships and Activities

• Program committee for the AFA, EFA, FMA and the WFA meetings and referee for numerous journals.

Selected Consulting Clients

• New York Stock Exchange
• Bird and Loechl

Academic Background
Ph.D., UCLA, 1993
MBA, Tulane University, 1987
MS, Chemical Engineering, Tulane University, 1985
B. Tech, Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, 1984