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Ishita Sen

Ishita Sen

Assistant Professor of Business Administration

Assistant Professor of Business Administration

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Ishita Sen is an assistant professor of business administration in the Finance Unit. She teaches the Finance I course in the MBA required curriculum. Professor Sen’s research focuses on financial intermediation, asset pricing, and insurance markets. In her current research, she studies how inconsistencies in regulation restrict risk management, how capital regulation affects the insurance product market, and more recently, the agency problems associated with the use of internal models for asset valuation. Professor Sen holds a PhD in Finance from the London Business School.

 

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Publications Awards & Honors

Working Papers
Working Papers

  • Sen, Ishita. "Regulatory Limits to Risk Management." Working Paper, September 2019. View Details
  • Sen, Ishita, and David Humphry. "Capital Regulation and Product Market Outcomes." Working Paper, January 2020. View Details
  • Sen, Ishita, and Varun Sharma. "Internal Models, Make Believe Prices, and Bond Market Cornering." Working Paper, June 2020. View Details
  • Sen, Ishita, and Ana-Maria Tenekedjieva. "Pricing of Climate Risk Insurance: Regulatory Frictions and Cross-Subsidies." Working Paper, January 2021. View Details
  • Sen, Ishita, Lorenzo Bretscher, Lukas Schmid, and Varun Sharma. "Institutional Corporate Bond Demand." Working Paper, December 2020. View Details
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Ishita Sen is an assistant professor of business administration in the Finance Unit. She teaches the Finance I course in the MBA required curriculum. Professor Sen’s research focuses on financial intermediation, asset pricing, and insurance markets. In her current research, she studies how inconsistencies in regulation restrict risk management, how capital regulation affects the insurance product market, and more recently, the agency problems associated with the use of internal models for asset valuation. Professor Sen holds a PhD in Finance from the London Business School.

 

Working Papers
  • Sen, Ishita. "Regulatory Limits to Risk Management." Working Paper, September 2019. View Details
  • Sen, Ishita, and David Humphry. "Capital Regulation and Product Market Outcomes." Working Paper, January 2020. View Details
  • Sen, Ishita, and Varun Sharma. "Internal Models, Make Believe Prices, and Bond Market Cornering." Working Paper, June 2020. View Details
  • Sen, Ishita, and Ana-Maria Tenekedjieva. "Pricing of Climate Risk Insurance: Regulatory Frictions and Cross-Subsidies." Working Paper, January 2021. View Details
  • Sen, Ishita, Lorenzo Bretscher, Lukas Schmid, and Varun Sharma. "Institutional Corporate Bond Demand." Working Paper, December 2020. View Details
Awards & Honors
Winner of the 2020 Jack Treynor Prize from the Institute for Quantitative Research in Finance for "Regulatory Limits to Risk Management."
Winner of the 2019 European Finance Association (EFA) Best Conference Paper Prize for "Regulatory Limits to Risk Management."
Additional Information
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Areas of Interest
  • asset pricing
  • corporate finance
  • financial institutions
  • insurance and reinsurance
  • risk management
Additional Information
Personal Website

Areas of Interest

asset pricing
corporate finance
financial institutions
insurance and reinsurance
risk management
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