Gans Narayanamoorthy
  • Professor
  • Faculty Director, Online MBA Program
  • Jayne Ritchey Cohen Chair of Business Administration
Office Address 502
Phone 504-314-7450
Email gnarayan@tulane.edu
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Biography

Professor Gans Narayanamoorthy's research focuses on capital markets in accounting, with particular emphasis on market efficiency, litigation risk, regulation, insurance and bank accounting. He has published extensively in all the top accounting journals. Professor Narayanamoorthy brings a rich professional background to Tulane. Before entering academia, he worked as an investment banker, managing public offerings of large corporations, including Fortune 500 companies. As a teacher, Professor Narayanamoorthy enjoys working with doctoral students and has served on fifteen Ph.D. committees to date. He appreciates Freeman's collegial atmosphere, especially the rewards of working alongside like-minded colleagues who are engaged in teaching and research and excited about growing the school.

Courses

Professor Narayanamoorthy currently teaches the Graduate course Advanced Risk Analytics and the Undergraduate course Risk Management, Complex Contracts and Accounting. These courses, at the intersection of risk and accounting, are unique to Freeman since not many peer schools offer them. He also teaches the introductory undergraduate accounting course for undergraduates and PhD seminars in Empirical Accounting Research. Over his career, he has taught classes on Risk Management, Advanced Financial Accounting, Financial Statement Analysis, Financial Accounting, Financial Reporting, Managerial Accounting and Financial Fraud. He brings research into the classroom so students can explore the field's most cutting-edge thinking.

Research

  • Narayanamoorthy, G. and P.B. Wheeler (2024), "Income smoothing in banks: Obfuscation or information”, Contemporary Accounting Research, forthcoming
  • Narayanamoorthy, G., J. Page and B. Song (2023), Insurance Rate Regulation, Management of the Loss Reserve and Pricing, The Accounting Review, 98 (6): 407–434.
  • Chen, P., W. Moser and G. Narayanamoorthy (2022), “Real Transaction Management and Loan Contracting”, Journal of Business, Finance and Accounting, forthcoming
  • Heitz, A. and G. Narayanamoorthy (2021), “Creditor Rights and Bank Loan Losses”, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, 56 (8), pp. 2800-2842
  • Chen, Z., Huffman, A., G. Narayanamoorthy and R. Zhang (2021), “Minimum tick size and analyst coverage: Evidence from the Tick Size Pilot Program”, Journal of Business, Finance and Accounting, 48 (3-4), pp. 666-691
  • Chen, P., G. Narayanamoorthy, T. Sougiannis and H. Zhou (2020), “Analyst Underreaction and Post-Analyst Forecast Revision Drift”, Journal of Business, Finance and Accounting, 47 (9-10), pp. 1151-1181
  • He., S., G. Narayanamoorthy (2020), “Earnings Acceleration and Stock Returns” Journal of Accounting and Economics, Vol. 69, Issue 1, 26-47
  • Cassell, C., Hunt, E., G. Narayanamoorthy and S. Rowe (2019), “A hidden risk of auditor industry specialization: evidence from the financial crisis” Review of Accounting Studies, Vol. 24, Issue 3, 891-926.

Education & Affiliations

University of Rochester, Ph.D.
Indian Institute of Management (Ahmedabad), M.B.A.
Indian Institute of Technology (Kanpur), B.Tech