NBER profile: Viral Acharya.

Viral Acharya is a Research Associate in the NBER's Program on Corporate Finance and the C.V. Starr Professor of Economics in the Department of Finance at New York University's Stern School of Business.

He received his Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science and Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai, in 1995 and his Ph.D. in Finance from NYU-Stern in 2001. He was a Professor of Finance at the London Business School from 2001-8 prior to joining the Stern faculty.

Acharya's primary research interest is analysis of systemic risk in the financial sector. This involves several topics, including credit risk and liquidity risk, their interactions and agency-theoretic foundations, and their consequences for general equilibrium.

In 2011 Acharya received the inaugural Banque de France - Toulouse...