Samarakoon, Lalith
Finance
University of Saint Thomas Saint Paul
United States of America
Biography
Lalith Samarakoon is a professor of finance. He also holds professional credentials as a chartered accountant and a certified financial analyst. Samarakoon teaches Contemporary Global Finance Issues, Global Financial Services (China course), International Finance and Financial Management. His primary area of research is international finance, with particular focus on emerging and frontier markets. He has published numerous scholarly articles dealing with issues such as market liberalization and return volatility, investment behavior of investor classes, return predictability, relation between returns and inflation, interest rates and dividends, tests of asset pricing models, mean reversion in stock prices, ownership structure, capital structure, initial public offerings, and stock market interdependence, contagion, and the U.S. financial crisis. He also published four texts relating to stock and bond markets.
Research Interest
Global Finance Issues and Policy, International Transmission of Financial Crises, Eurozone Crisis, Monetary Policy and Asset Bubbles
Publications
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Samarakoon LP. Stock market interdependence, contagion, and the US financial crisis: The case of emerging and frontier markets. Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions and Money. 2011 Dec 31;21(5):724-42.
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Fonseka MM, Samarakoon LP, Tian GL. Equity financing capacity and stock returns: Evidence from China. Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions and Money. 2012 Dec 31;22(5):1277-91.
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Samarakoon LP, Kadapakkam PR. The two-tier board system and underpricing of initial public offerings: Evidence from Austria.
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Samarakoon LP, Kadapakkam PR. The two-tier board system and underpricing of initial public offerings: Evidence from Austria.
