Ujjal Chatterjee

Title: Visiting Faculty of Finance
Office: 332C EH
Phone: (248) 370-2432
Email: [email protected]

Education:
University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee (Ph.D. Finance)

Teaching Interests:
AI in Finance, Portfolio Optimization, Risk Management, Machine Learning based forecasting

Research Interest:
Asset Pricing, Financial Intermediation, and the Interaction between the Macro and Micro Economy

Biography:
Dr. Chatterjee is a Visiting Faculty in Finance at the School of Business Administration, Oakland University. He has held academic positions at various institutions, both in the U.S. and internationally, including the University of Miami and University of Trento. His research focuses on asset pricing and financial intermediation. His work has been published in journals such as the Journal of Banking and Finance, Journal of Financial Stability, Economic Modelling, and Finance Research Letters, among others. His papers have been presented at premier conferences such as FMA and FIRS. His papers ranked among the top ten in their sessions at the FMA conferences in 2012 and 2013. One of his papers was also a semi-finalist for the Best Paper Award at FMA 2013.

Awards:

• Faculty research grant, 2021-23 (Euro 9000), University of Trento (UT), Italy.
• Faculty research grant, 2017 ($5000), University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee.
• Chancellor’s Fellow, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, 2011-2012.
• C. Edward Weber Research Scholarship, University of Wisconsin Milwaukee. 2011-12

Selected Journals Articles:

• (with J. French) “Domain Knowledge Matters: Evidence from Bank Failure Rate Predictions with Machine Learning, 2025; Computational Economics.
• (with J. French, A. Zirgulis, and M. Huttinger) Reassessing the Inversion of the Treasury Yield Curve as a Sign of U.S. Recessions: Insights from the Housing and Credit Markets, 2024; North American Journal of Accounting and Finance
• Forecasting economic growth: Evidence from Housing, Banking, and Credit Conditions, 2023; Journal of Economics and Finance; 
• (with J. French) A note on Tweeting and Equity Market before and during Covid-19 Pandemic, 2021; Finance Research Letters; 
• Bank Liquidity Creation and Recessions, 2018; Journal of Banking and Finance; Vol 90, 64-75.
• Bank Liquidity Creation and Asset Market Liquidity, 2015; Journal of Financial Stability, Vol 18, 139-153.