Madhu Kalimipalli is currently a Full Professor in Finance at the Lazaridis School of Business and Economics, Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Canada. He is an affiliated member of the MS2Discovery Institute , where he is a part of the mathematical finance models cluster, and a Senior Fellow at Research Centre for Economic Analysis (RCEA). He holds a PhD in Finance from the Bauer College of Business, University of Houston, and MA degrees in Economics from Rutgers University and the Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics, India. His research has appeared in premier finance journals such as Journal of Financial Economics, Journal of Financial Intermediation, Journal of Financial Markets, Journal of Banking and Finance, Journal of Empirical Finance, among others.