Chandan Kumar Jha

I am an Associate Professor of Finance at the Madden College of Business and Economics, Le Moyne College. I earned a Ph.D. in Economics from Louisiana State University in 2015. Currently, I am serving as the Chair of the Accounting, Finance, and Economics Department, and a Member of the Board of Governors of the Dolphin Green & Gold Fund -- a student-managed fund at Le Moyne College. In the past, I have served as the Finance Program Director and the Director of the Hetterich Center for Global Engagement and Impact.

I am an Associate Editor of Studies in Microeconomics and an Editorial Board Member of SN Business & Economics. I am also a fellow of the Global Labor Organization.

I am a co-editor of the book, "The Political Economy of Corruption" and a forthcoming volume, "Corruption and the Sustainable Development Goals". Click on the book to be taken to the publisher's site.

I am also a co-editor of the following journal special issues

1. Crises and Corruption: How Governance and Institutions Interact in Troubled Times, Economic Modelling.

2. Fintech, Business, and Development, Journal of Risk and Financial Management.

3. Gender and Development, Administrative Sciences.

4. Selected Topics from the 23rd Biennial Conference of the Association of Indian Economic and Financial Studies (AIEFS), Studies in Microeconomics.

My current research explores issues in economic development with an emphasis on corruption, gender, and finance. My work underscores the importance of culture and institutions for socioeconomic outcomes. A strand of my research explores the factors responsible for the emergence of gender norms. I also have some papers on coronavirus. This paper comparing economic behaviors during the COVID-19 and the 1776 London Plague discussing the resiliency of core economic concepts over hundreds of years might be interesting to your undergraduate students in courses like Principles of Economics/Microeconomics and Behavioral Economics. I occasionally write popular pieces, some of which are related to my research.