Aswath Damodaran

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Aswath Damodaran is Professor of Finance at the Stern School of Business at New York University, where he teaches corporate finance and equity valuation. Professor Damodaran is best known as author of several widely used academic texts on Valuation, Corporate Finance, and Investment Management.

[edit] Biography

Professor Damodaran holds M.B.A. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of California, Los Angeles, as well as a B.A. in Accounting from Madras University and a M.S. in Management from the Indian Institute of Management.

Prior to joining NYU, he served as visiting lecturer at the University of California, Berkeley from 1984 to 1986. He was profiled in Business Week as one of the top 12 U.S. business school professors; he has also received awards for excellence in teaching from both universities.

He has written several books on equity valuation, as well on corporate finance; he is widely quoted on the subject of valuation. He is also widely published in leading journals of finance, including The Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, The Journal of Finance, The Journal of Financial Economics, and the Review of Financial Studies.

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Valuation
- Damodaran on Valuation, John Wiley & Sons, 2006. ISBN 0471751219
- Investment Valuation, John Wiley & Sons, 2002. ISBN 0471414883
- The Dark Side of Valuation, Prentice Hall Financial Times, 2001. ISBN 013040652X

Corporate Finance
- Corporate Finance, John Wiley & Sons, 2001. ISBN 0471392200
- Applied Corporate Finance: A User's Manual, John Wiley & Sons, 2005 .ISBN 0471660930

Investment Management
- Investment Philosophies, John Wiley & Sons, 2003. ISBN 0471345032
- Investment Fables, Prentice Hall Financial Times, 2004. ISBN 0131403125
- Investment Management, co-edited with Peter L. Bernstein, John Wiley & Sons, 1998. ISBN 0471197165