Rahul Ravi, PhD
Professor, Department of Finance
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Research areas: Empirical Market Microstructure, Market Efficiency, Initial Public Offerings (IPOs), Information and Uncertainty, Venture Capital, Corporate Social Responsibility, Family Firms, Gender and leadership
Teaching domains: Finance
Intellectual contributions (last 10 years)
Peer-reviewed journal articles
RAVI, R. (2026). From AI companions to climate action, we undervalue what lies ahead. The Conversation.RAVI, R., BETTON, S., LEITHMAN, G., KUMAR, S. (2026). Women and racialized CEOs may outperform their peers because they face tougher barriers to the top. The Conversation.
KUMAR, S., RAVI, R., BASU, N. (2024). Between responsive gestures and adaptive actions: Deciphering the differential impact of CSR strategies on stock market performance. Managerial Finance. doi:10.1108/MF-01-2024-0052.
MORADI DEZFOULI, K., RAVI, R. (2024). The impact of CEO and CFO gender on family firm performance. Journal of Applied Business and Economics, 26 (4). doi:10.33423/jabe.v26i4.7263.
KUMAR, S., RAVI, R. (2023). Earnings management: Are men from Mars and women from Venus? Managerial Finance, 49 (6), 1017-1035. doi:10.1108/MF-04-2022-0154.
COMBS, J., JASKIEWICZ, P., RAVI, R., WALLS, J. L. (2022). More bang for their buck: Why (and when) Family firms better leverage corporate social responsibility. Journal of Management. doi:10.1177/01492063211066057.
MORADI DEZFOULI, K., RAVI, R. (2022). Do managerial entrenchment and high free cash flow always have negative impact? Journal of Accounting and Finance, 22 (5), 58-78. doi:10.33423/jaf.v22i5.5634.
PRAKASH, R., RAVI, R., ZHAO, R. (2017). The anatomy of a socially responsible corporation. Financial Management, 46 (1), 33-58. doi:10.1111/fima.12160.
Conference proceedings
RAVI, R., KUMAR, S., BETTON, S., LEITHMAN, G. (2023). When distinction disguises discrimination: a look at female and non-white CEO performance. Academy of Management Best Paper Proceedings. doi:10.5465/AMPROC.2023.134bp.Conference presentations
BASU, N., HUNG, L., RAVI, R. (2019). Corporate social responsibility and entrenchment. Administrative Sciences Association of Canada (ASAC) Conference, St. Catharines, ON.BETTON, S., KUMAR, S., LEITHMAN, G., RAVI, R. (2019). Breaking through glass ceilings: Occupational minority CEOs and firm performance. Financial Management Association (FMA) Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA.
MORADI, K., RAVI, R. (2019). Agency conflict in family firms. Financial Management Association (FMA) Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA.
JASKIEWICZ, P., COMBS, J., RAVI, R. (2018). Family ownership and the link between CSR activities and firm performance. International Family Enterprise Research Academy (IFERA) Research development workshop, Zwolle.
KUMAR, S., RAVI, R., BASU, N. (2017). Corporate social responsibility and the market value of the firm - (runner up for the emerald - IFC 2017 best paper award). India Finance Conference (IFC), Bangalore.
RAVI, R. (2017). Airline entry into multipartner alliances – the embeddedness effect. Administrative Sciences Association of Canada (ASAC) Conference, Montreal, QC.
RAVI, R. (2017). Family ownership and the link between CSR activities and firm performance. Southern Academy of Management (SMA) Conference, St. Pete Beach, FL.
Student supervision (last 10 years)
Theses supervised completed
PhD dissertations
2026: Ashrafee Takdir Hossain, Essays in Finance
2023: Ramin Eghbalzadeh, Discrete-Time Arbitrage-Free Nelson-Siegel Model and its Applications to Participating Life Insurance Contracts and Swaptions Pricing
2021: Azadeh Babaghaderi, Essays in Corporate Spinoff Incompletion
2020: Sonal Kumar, Three essays on ethical corporate behavior
2020: Sam Kolahgar, Investor Relation and Stakeholder Communication in Corporate Finance
MSc theses
2021: Carl Ajjoub, A Systematic Analysis of Equity Issuance: Evidence from Around the World
2017: Tian Ye, The influence of dark pool activity on the open market price impact of takeover rumors
Theses committee membership
PhD dissertations
2020: Cagdas Tahaoglu, Three Essays on Financial Markets
2018: Kaveh Moradi Dezfouli, Essays in corporate governance and environmental risks
2018: Ksenia Kordonsky, PhD thesis committee
2017: Nabil El-Meselmani, Three essays on mergers and acquisitions
MSc theses
2023: Aman Bajaj, The USMCA: A Bad Deal for Most
2022: Alison Cabana-Wong, The relationship between inflation and small-cap premiums and evaluating small-cap stocks as a hedge to inflation for G7 countries
2021: Mikel Bitton, A Systematic Analysis of Equity Issuance: Evidence from Around the World
2021: Danya Bouwman, The Impact of News Analytics on High-Frequency Stock Market Dynamics
2021: Keith Porter, The Weighted Average Cost of Capital and Investment; new insights from Emerging Markets.
2020: Jinxiu Guo, Do announcements of dividend payment frequency change matter?
2019: Anna Cherkas, Understanding the impact of CEO motivations for M&As on post-acquisition target performance
2019: Gervais Arel, Competitive effects of US and international acquisitions: Examining the abnormal returns to rivals of acquisition targets
2018: Burrows Sarah, Corporate governance antecedents of top management pay dispersion that undermines firm performance
2018: Tuan Anh Nguyen, CEO age, compensation contracts and risk-taking
2018: Jueji Chen, Agency, stewardship and corporate acquisition decisions
2017: Heng Yue, Effects of the short sale circuit breaker on the stock market
2017: Yanting Wu, The effectiveness of listing strategies in the housing market
Teaching experience (last 5 years)
John Molson School of Business
Undergraduate
Graduate
Work experience
John Molson School of Business
Since 2024: Professor, Department of Finance
2020 - 2026: Program Director, Executive MBA
2019 - 2024: Director, Goodman Institute of Investment Management
2014 - 2024: Associate Professor, Department of Finance
2017 - 2020: Department Chair, Finance
2016 - 2017: Co-Director David O'Brien Centre for Sustainable Enterprise
2007 - 2014: Assistant Professor, Department of Finance