Vikrant Vig
Professor of Finance (on leave from London Business School)
BS (Delhi) MS MBA MiF (Illinois) PhD (Columbia)
Professor Vig’s research interests lie in the area of financial contracting and include: financial intermediation, firm choice of optimal debt structure, corporate governance, and law and finance. His papers have been published in leading journals, including the American Economic Review, the Quarterly Journal of Economics, the Journal of Political Economy, the Journal of Finance, the Journal of Financial Economics and the Review of Financial Studies. He was previously Editor of the Review of Finance and currently serves on the advisory board of that journal. He is also currently an Associate Editor of the Journal of Financial Intermediation. Vikrant has won several awards for his research and his work has been featured in leading media outlets, including the Economist, the Financial Times New York Times, the Wall Street Journal. Professor Vig received his PhD from Columbia University; his Master of Finance, MBA, and Master of Science in Engineering from the University of Illinois; and his bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Delhi.
- vvig@london.edu
- +44 (0)20 7000 8274
Research Awards
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London Business School Term Associate Professor of Finance (since 2010).
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Finalist for the 2006 Lehman Brothers Fellowship for Excellence in Finance.
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Visiting Scholar, Harvard Economics Department, 2010.
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LECG Best Corporate Finance Paper Award, European Finance Association, 2010.
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EUROBANK Overall Best Paper Award, European Finance Association, 2008.
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Best Paper Award, Mitsui Conference, 2008. BSI Gamma Grant (2008).
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CitiBank Best Paper Award, ISB, 2008.
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NISM Best Paper Award, 2008.
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Runner-up: Best Teacher Award (MiF) 2009, 2011.
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Columbia University Center for International Business Education and Research (CIBER)-Chazen Institute Doctoral Research Grant, Summer 2005.
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Doctoral Fellowship, Columbia Business School, Columbia University, 2002-2007.
- Corporate finance theory
- Empirical corporate finance
- Bankruptcy, law and finance
- Corporate governance
- Incentives
- Financial contracting
- Organisational economics
2021
Talent in distressed firms: investigating the labor costs of financial distress
Baghai R; Silva R; Thell V; Vig V
Journal of Finance 2021 Vol 76:6 p 2907-2961
2020
Experience of communal conflicts and inter-group lending
Fisman R; Sarkar A; Skrastins J; Vig V
Journal of Political Economy 2020 Vol 128:9
LBO risk and credit spreads
Eisenthal-Berkovitz Y; Feldhutter P; Vig V
Journal of Financial Economics 2020 Vol 135:3 p 577-601
2019
How organizational hierarchy affects information production
Skrastins J; Vig V
Review of Financial Studies 2019 Vol 32:2 p 564-604
2018
Rent seeking in elite networks
Vig V; Haselmann R; Schoenherr D
Journal of Political Economy 2018 Vol 126:4 p 1638-1690
2017
Cultural proximity and loan outcomes
Fisman R; Paravisini D; Vig V
American Economic Review 2017 Vol 107:2 p 457-492
2015
Labor protection and leverage
Simintzi E; Vig V; Volpin P
Review of Financial Studies 2015 Vol 28:2 p 561-591
The failure of models that predict failure: distance, incentives and defaults
Rajan U; Seru A; Vig V
Journal of Financial Economics 2015 Vol 115:2 p 237-260
2014
Private returns to public office
Fisman R; Schulz F; Vig V
Journal of Political Economy 2014 Vol 122:4 p 806-862
2013
Access to collateral and corporate debt structure: evidence from a natural experiment
Vig V
Journal of Finance 2013 Vol 68:3 p 881-928
Mortgage financing in the housing boom and bust
Keys B J; Piskorski T; Seru A; Vig V
In National Bureau of Economic Research "Housing and the Financial Crisis" 2013
2012
Lender screening and role of securitization: Evidence from prime and subprime mortgage markets
Keys B J; Seru A; Vikrant V
Review of Financial Studies 2012 Vol 25:7 p 207-2108
2011
The unintended effects of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act
Chhaochharia V; Otto C A; Vig V
Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics 2011 Vol 167:1 p 149-164
2010
Did securitization lead to lax screening: Evidence from subprime loans 2001-2006
Vig V; Keys B; Mukherjee T; Seru A
Quarterly Journal of Economics 2010 Vol 125:1 p 307-362
How law affects lending
Vig V; Pistor K; Haselman R
Review of Financial Studies 2010 Vol 23:2 p 549-580
Securitization and distressed loan renegotiation: Evidence from the subprime mortage crisis
Vig V; Piskorski T; Seru A
Journal of Financial Economics 2010 Vol 97:3 p 369-397
Statistical default models and incentives
Vig V; Rajan U; Seru A
American Economic Review 2010 May Vol 100:2 p 506-510
2009
Financial regulation and securitization: Evidence from subprime loans
Keys B J; Mukherjee T; Seru A; Vig V
Journal of Monetary Economics 2009 Vol 56:5 p 700-720
2008
On estimating the distribution of optimal traveling salesman tour lengths using heuristics
Vig V; Palekar U S
European Journal of Operational Research 2008 Vol 186:1 p 111-119
2022
Decomposing fire sale discounts
Franks J R; Seth G; Sussman O; Vig V
European Corporate Governance Institute - Finance Working Paper
Quality and productivity in aircraft sales: why the welfare costs of fire sales are overstated
Franks J; Seth G; Sussman O; Vig V
Working Paper
The Limits of Coase: A Study of Financial Distress in the Shipping Industry
Franks J; Seth G; Sussman O; Vig V
Working Paper
2020
The privatization of bankruptcy: evidence from financial distress in the shipping industry
Franks J; Sussman O; Vig V
IFA Working Paper
Leveraged buyouts and credit spreads
Eisenthal-Berkovitz Y; Feldhutter P; Vig V
Social Sciences Research Network
Team stability and performance: evidence from private equity
Cornelli F; Simintzi E; Vig V
Social Sciences Research Network
2015
Talent in distressed firms: labor fragility and capital structure
Baghai R; Silva R; Thell V; Vig V
Social Sciences Research Network
2019
Government Ownership of Banks and Corporate Innovation
Bian B; Haselmann R; Vig V; di Mauro B W
Working Paper
The Political Economy of Decentralization: Evidence from Bank Bailouts
Bian B; Haselmann R; Kick T; Vig V
Working Paper
Teaching portfolio
Our teaching offering is updated annually. Faculty and programme material are subject to change.
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PhD Seminar in Financial Economics III
Financial Economics III / Corporate Finance
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PhD Seminar in Financial Economics III