Dinesh Gajurel

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Associate Dean (Research and Graduate Studies)

Dinesh Gajurel joined the faculty of management in 2017. His research focuses on financial crises and contagion, macro-finance, corporate finance, asset pricing, crypto finance, and empirical finance. Dinesh has published in journals such as the Journal of Banking & Finance, Economic Record, Applied Economics, Economic Systems, and Journal of Risk and Financial Management. He also serves as ad-hoc reviewer for such journals as the Journal of Banking & Finance, the Economic Record, the Applied Economics, the European Journal of Finance, the International Review of Economics and Finance, and several others.

Dinesh is an experienced teacher, offering a wide range of finance courses including introductory corporate finance, advanced quantitative finance, financial derivatives, and tailored research-based courses, both in-person and online. Currently, at UNB, he teaches Principles of Finance, Corporate Finance, Entrepreneurship Finance, International Finance, Personal Finance, Investments, and Value Investing at both undergraduate and graduate levels. He is a co-author of the text Fundamentals of Corporate Finance by Brealey and Myers (published by McGraw Hill Canada), which has been widely adopted by business schools across Canada. Before coming to UNB, Dinesh taught at Trent University, University of Tasmania, and Tribhuvan University.

Selected publications

Gajurel, D. and Chawla, A. (2022). International Information Spillovers and Asymmetric Volatility in South Asian Stock Markets. Journal of Risk and Financial Management, vol. 15:471. DOI: 

Gajurel, D. and Chawla, A. (2022). The Oil Price Crisis and Contagion Effects on the Canadian Economy. Applied Economics, vol. 54(13), pp. 1527-1543. DOI: 

Gajurel, D., and Chowdhury, B. (2021). Realized Volatility, Jump, and Beta: Evidence from Canadian Stock Market. Applied Economics, vol. 53(55), pp. 6376-6397. 

Gajurel, D., Dungey, M., Yao, W., and Jeyasreedharan, N. (2020). Jump Risk in the US Financial Sector. Economic Record, vol. 96, pp. 331-349.

Gajurel, D. (2019). Asymmetric Volatility in Nepalese Stock Market. Journal of Comparative International Management, vol. 22(1), pp. 41-59.

Dungey, M. and Gajurel, D. (2015). Contagion and Banking Crisis – International Evidence for 2007-2009, Journal of Banking & Finance, vol. 60, pp. 271-283.

Dungey, M. and Gajurel, D. (2014). Equity Market Contagion during the Global Financial Crisis: Evidence from the World’s Eight Largest Economies, Economic Systems, vol. 38, pp:161-177.