Dr. Puneet Handa received his Doctor of Philosophy in Finance from the University of Iowa in Iowa City in 1986. Earlier, Dr. Puneet Handa had earned a Bachelor of Science with Honors from St. Stephen’s College at Delhi University and a Post Graduate Diploma in Management from the Indian Institute of Management in Ahmedabad. After earning his doctorate, Dr. Puneet Handa accepted an Assistant Professorship in Finance at New York University, where he taught Advanced Corporate Finance to students at the Master of Business Administration level. Dr. Puneet Handa has also taught Financial Analysis and Advanced Corporate Finance to Master of Business Administration students at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Business as a Visiting Professor of Finance. In 1993, Dr. Puneet Handa returned to the University of Iowa as an Associate Professor of Finance. There, Dr. Puneet Handa taught Corporate Finance to undergraduates and graduate students and led a seminar in Corporate Finance for doctoral candidates until 2007. Dr. Puneet Handa was also responsible for coordinating and teaching the undergraduate finance curriculum core. Although Dr. Puneet Handa’s dissertation focused on arbitrage pricing under estimation risk, his current research focuses on the economic value of idiosyncratic volatility and its role in asset allocation. Dr. Puneet Handa is also studying order imbalance in securities markets and its impact on trading costs and market breakdown with Robert Schwartz, as well as the predictability of IPO bankruptcy by means of historical accounting information with Jerry Suhanek. Dr. Puneet Handa remains informed about the current trends in finance as an active member of the American Finance Association, the Financial Management Association, and the Western Finance Association. In addition, Dr. Puneet Handa is an Associate Editor for the International Journal of Revenue Management and a Referee for a number of financial and economic journals, including Financial Management, The Journal of Finance, and the Journal of Economic Theory.
