Meghana Ayyagari
Title: Assistant Professor of International Business
Department: International Business
Address: Funger Hall, Suite 401R
Phone: (202) 994-1292
Email: ayyagari@gwu.edu
Degrees: Ph.D., University of Maryland, 2004
Area of Expertise: International Finance, Corporate Governance, SMEs, Development Economics
Publications: How well do Institutional Theories Explain Firms’ Perceptions of Property Rights? (with Asli Demirgüç-Kunt and Vojislav Maksimovic) forthcoming Review of Financial Studies
Small and Medium Enterprises Across the Globe (with Asli Demirgüç-Kunt and Thorsten Beck) forthcoming Small Business Economics
Professional Activities: Member of the Academy Of International Business, the American Economic Association, the American Finance Association, and the Western Finance Association.
Current Research: International Finance, International Corporate Goverance
Grants: 2006-2009: National Science Foundation Research Grant (U.S.) SES# 0550573, “Legal Institutions and Doing Business: A Cross-Country Analysis.“
2007: University Facilitating Fund Research Grant
2007: CIBER Research Grant
2006-2007: George Washington Institute of Public Policy (GWIPP) –CIBER Policy Research Scholar
2006: American Consortium on European Union Studies (ACES) Research Seed Grant