Price Formation, Information and Equilibrium

Research.

Anveṣaṇaअन्वेषण

I study how information shapes prices, liquidity, and trading decisions. My research brings economic theory into conversation with high-frequency market data, focusing on how market rules and participants’ beliefs shape financial outcomes.

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०१ · Primary Working Papers

Public Inference and Funding Fragility

2026

Public order flow does not just move price; it resets continuation margin. Links adverse signed flow, price discovery, funding liquidity, depth withdrawal, and forced deleveraging.

Where Manipulation Hides

2026

Distinguishes rational cancellation from deceptive intent and derives the benefits—and limits—of using profit-source evidence in enforcement.

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Queue Priority as Adverse-Selection Exposure

2026

Reframes FIFO priority in limit order books as state-contingent adverse-selection exposure, linking marginal fill toxicity, cancellation, hidden effective rank, and Kyle / Back information states.

Prices at Three Speeds

2026

Derives a restriction on price adjustment: a two-rate benchmark permits at most one change in the sign of return covariance. Trend-following pressure adds a third rate. Evidence from Indian equities traces the horizon curve from one day to three years.

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The Exact Obstruction to Jamshidian's Decomposition in Multifactor Affine Models

2026

Characterizes exactly when Jamshidian's decomposition survives in multifactor exponential-affine models: bond loadings must lie on a common positive ray. Near that boundary, projected one-factor strikes yield an upper bound with explicit error control.

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०२ · Published and Submitted

Investor Preferences Under Uncertainty and the Cross-Country Green Bond Premium

Uses 417 green bonds matched to synthetic conventional bonds across 30 countries to study how long-term orientation and uncertainty avoidance shape cross-country greenium heterogeneity.

with Durga Prasad and Krishna Prasad · Submitted to Finance Research Letters · 2026 · PDF
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Momentum, Reversals and Liquidity: Indian Evidence

Research assistance for Madhu Veeraraghavan and Abhishek Rohit.

Published · Pacific-Basin Finance Journal · 2023 · PDF
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०३ · Theory Notes

Informed Entry, Price Impact & Short-Horizon Return Predictability

A tractable mechanism in which costly informed entry changes the balance between information incorporation and price-pressure reversal.

Working paper · 2026 · PDF
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Dynamic Order Execution Mechanisms

Master's thesis. Dynamic order execution, market impact, and trading under liquidity frictions.

The Hong Kong Polytechnic University · 2025 · PDF
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०४ · Books and Notes

Problems in High-Frequency Econometrics

2026

A graduate-level book in 67 worked problems, developing price discovery, adverse selection, strategic informed trading, and execution. Connects Roll and MRR identification, Bayesian learning and PIN, Kyle equilibria, and market impact through derivations, examples, and research exercises.

Revised edition · September 2026
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Lectures on Market Microstructure

2026

Six graduate lectures on how trading, information, and funding shape prices. Develops rational expectations, transaction-price dynamics, Kyle models, limit-order execution, and liquidity spirals through detailed derivations, worked examples, and solved exercises. Includes a mathematical supplement on fractional kernels and rough volatility.

Lecture notes · September 2026
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०५ · Other Research & Publications

Green Bonds - Sustainable Investments Dilemma

IVEY Case Publishing · 2025
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