Eshwar Venugopal
Eshwar Venugopal

Assistant Professor of Finance

University of Alabama

About me

I am a financial economist working on corporate risk: how it is measured, what it costs, and how it is priced. My work spans flood risk and insurance, environmental damage, debt covenants, and firm-level risk measures built at scale from corporate filings. I used to sell mutual funds in India and build data warehouses at Tata Consultancy Services. A regulation that cut my own commissions got me interested in research.

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Publications
Hadiye Aslan, Madhu Kalimipalli, Praveen Kumar, Buvaneshwaran Venugopal (2025). Product Market Competition, Mergers and Acquisitions, and Covenant Redesign. Review of Corporate Finance Studies.
Buvaneshwaran Venugopal, Vijay Yerramilli (2024). Non-Executive Directors at Early-Stage Startups. Forthcoming, Review of Corporate Finance Studies.
Dimuthu Ratnadiwakara, Buvaneshwaran Venugopal (2023). Climate Risk Perceptions and Demand for Flood Insurance. Financial Management.
Vladimir A. Gatchev, Christo A. Pirinsky, Buvaneshwaran Venugopal (2022). A Language-based Approach to Measuring Creative Exploration. Research Policy.
Buvaneshwaran Venugopal, Vijay Yerramilli (2022). Seed-Stage Success and Growth of Angel Co-investment Networks. Review of Corporate Finance Studies.
Dimuthu Ratnadiwakara, Buvaneshwaran Venugopal (2020). Do Areas Affected by Flood Disasters Attract Lower-Income and Less Creditworthy Homeowners?. Journal of Housing Research.
Santosh Anagol, Vijaya Marisetty, Renuka Sane, Buvaneshwaran Venugopal (2017). On the Impact of Regulating Commissions: Evidence from the Indian Mutual Funds Market. World Bank Economic Review.
Working Papers
J. Anthony Cookson, Maryam Fathollahi, William Grieser, Buvaneshwaran Venugopal (2026). LLMs and Systematic Measurement Errors.
Madhu Kalimipalli, Kaveri Krishnan, Sesha Meka, Buvaneshwaran Venugopal (2025). Does Municipal Performance Impact Climate and Biodiversity Risks? Micro-Level Evidence from India.
George Zhe Tian, Buvaneshwaran Venugopal, Vijay Yerramilli (2024). Pollution and Business Activity : Evidence From Toxic Chemical Spills.
Madhu Kalimipalli, Si Li, Olaleye Morohunfolu, Buvaneshwaran Venugopal (2023). Do Labor Unions Influence Debt Contracting? Evidence from Private and Public Debt Markets.
Buvaneshwaran Venugopal (2023). Homophily, Information Asymmetry and Performance in the Angels Market.
Vikram Nanda, Buvaneshwaran Venugopal, Qinghai Wang (2023). Venture Capital Crossover Investing.
Teaching

Instructor:

  • Foundations of FinTech: University of Alabama, 2026-
  • Money & Capital Markets: University of Alabama, 2026-
  • Foundations of FinTech (Undergraduate): University of Central Florida, 2019-2025
  • Foundations of FinTech (Masters’): University of Central Florida, 2022-2025
  • Ph.D Seminar on FinTech: University of Central Florida, Spring 2021, 2023
  • Debt & Money Markets: University of Central Florida, Spring 2020, 2022, 2024
  • Corporate Finance: University of Houston - Summer 2016
  • Financial Management: Monash University - Fall 2011 & Spring 2012

Teaching Assistant: University of Houston, USA

  • Intermediate Corporate Finance: Valuation (MBA): 2013-2018
  • Managerial Finance (MBA): 2015 - 2018
  • Game Theory (Ph.D.): 2015 - 2018
  • Investments: 2013
  • Principles of Financial Management: 2012-2013

Teaching Associate: Monash University, Australia​

  • Financial Management: 2010 - 2012
  • Money and Capital Markets: 2010-2012

FinTech lecture notes:

Media

Expert Panels, Lectures, & Media Interviews:

  • How is artificial intelligence reshaping business research? [Culverhouse]
  • Making India an Advanced Economy by 2047: What Will It Take?, Moderator [India Center]
  • Fireside Chat on Digital Assets, 2024 FinTech Summit [UCF]
  • Blockchain and DeFi, 2024 FinTech Summit [UCF]
  • Effect of pollution on businesses, CNBC TV18, December 2023
  • The (Potential) Benefits & Risks of Decentralized Finance}, 2023 Dean’s Speaker Series [UCF]
  • Government Infusions and Financial Stability, Moderator [India Center]
  • Rattled crypto industry could emerge stronger after USDC Depeg [Cointelegraph]
  • Stablecoins: good as the buck, or breaking the buck? [Risk.net]
  • Stability of Stablecoins and FTX Collapse [Cointelegraph]
  • 2022 Federal Housing Finance Agency’s Econ Summit [FHFA]
  • FinTech & Blockchain Session, 2022 UCF Annual Accounting Conference [UCF]
  • FinTech Digital Transformation Panel, Moderator, 2022 UCF FinTech Summit [UCF]
  • Fintech and Blockchain, 2022 [UTVS]
  • Cryptocurrencies: A non-technical primer, 2021 UCF Foundation
  • Uganda’s gold discovery: What it could mean for crypto [Cointelegraph]
  • Crypto’s crash shows digital currency is not a hedge against inflation [Quartz]
  • Stablecoins aren’t stable: Why TerraUSD is crashing [Quartz]
  • How high can meme coin prices go? [Quartz]
  • Are NFTs Really a Thing? [Podcast]
  • On security while investing in Cryptocurrencies [News 13]
  • Blockchain Task force in Tallahassee, Speaker & Panelist [Presentation] [Video]
  • 2018 Data Science Summit: Smart Cities of the Future, Panelist
  • Moderator: India - Growth, Challenge, and Opportunity Series

FinTech @UCF:

Master of Science in FinTech

FinTech @Undergraduate level

Moderated Discussions @India Center:

  • Do Repeated Cash Infusions Help Financial Stability? (Moderator)
  • Making India an Advanced Economy by 2047 (Moderator)