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Umang Khetan

PhD Student in Finance
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Umang Khetan - University of Iowa
umang-khetan@uiowa.edu
Primary Office
S217 Pappajohn Business Building
(PBB)

Introduction

My research interests include Financial Intermediation, Market Microstructure, Asset Pricing, and Household Finance. I will be on the 2025-26 job market.

Current Positions

  • Graduate Research Assistant, Finance

Education

  • PhD Student in Finance, University of Iowa, expected graduation Spring 2026
  • Postgraduate Diploma in Management, Indian Institute of Management
  • BA in Management Studies, University of Mumbai

Research Interests

  • My research interests include financial intermediation, asset pricing, market microstructure, and household finance.

Licenses & Certifications

  • CFA Level III, CFA Institute, 2017

Selected Awards & Honors

  • Northern Finance Association PhD Student Travel Grant, 2025
  • Best Paper in Asset Management Award - Midwest Finance Association, 2025
  • Midwest Finance Association PhD Student Travel Grant, 2025
  • Graudate College Summer Fellowship - University of Iowa, 2024
  • Research Grant - INQUIRE Europe, 2024
  • Graduate College Post-Comprehensive Research Fellowship - University of Iowa, 2024
  • American Finance Association PhD Student Travel Grant, 2023
  • Tippie Research Excellence Grant, 2021

Selected Presentations

  • "Synthetic Dollar Funding," Accepted Speaker at Northern Finance Association Annual Meeting, Calgary, Canada, September 2025.
  • "Synthetic Dollar Funding," Accepted Speaker at European Finance Association Doctoral Tutorial, Paris, France, August 2025.
  • "Synthetic Dollar Funding," Accepted Speaker at Federal Reserve Board of Governors, Washington, District of Columbia, May 2025.
  • "Synthetic Dollar Funding," Accepted Speaker at Midwest Finance Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, Illinois, March 2025.
  • "Synthetic Dollar Funding," Accepted Speaker at Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, Atlanta, Georgia, December 2024.
  • "The Market for Sharing Interest Rate Risk," Accepted Speaker at Holden Finance Conference, Bloomington, Indiana, September 2024.
  • "Process Innovation and the Corporate Control Market," Accepted Speaker at Northern Finance Association Annual Meeting, Montreal, Canada, September 2024.
  • "The Market for Sharing Interest Rate Risk," Accepted Speaker at Silicon Prairie Finance Conference, Ames, Iowa, May 2024.
  • "Unemployment Insurance Fraud in the Debit Card Market," Accepted Speaker at MIT Rising Scholars Conference, Cambridge, Massachusetts, October 2023.
  • "The Market for Sharing Interest Rate Risk," Accepted Speaker at Bank of England, United Kingdom, May 2023.

Working Papers

  • Khetan, U. (2024). Synthetic Dollar Funding.
  • Khetan, U., Leder-Luis, J., Wang, J., & Zhou, Y. (2024). Unemployment Insurance Fraud in the Debit Card Market.
  • Khetan, U. & Sinagl, P. (2023). Corporate Trading in Over-the-counter FX Markets.
  • Khetan, U. & Nain, A. (2023). Process Innovation and the Corporate Control Market.
  • Khetan, U., Li, J., Neamtu, I., & Sen, I. (2023). The Market for Sharing Interest Rate Risk.

Employment History

  • Associate, Fixed Income Markets, JPMorgan Chase & Co., 2016 - 2020
  • Analyst, Global Equity Derivatives, Morgan Stanley, 2013 - 2014