Meet the Economists

Nitish R. Sinha
nitish.r.sinha@frb.gov
Education
- Ph.D., Finance, Robert H Smith School of Business, University of Maryland, 2010
- M.B.A., Management, Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, 2002
- B.S., Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, 1999
- Text Analysis, Market Efficiency,
- Treasury Rates, Forecasting
Principal Economist
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
2017 - presentSenior Economist
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
2015 - 2017Economist
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
2013 - 2015Assistant Professor
College of Business Administration, University of Illinois at Chicago
2010 - 2013
- Berge, Travis J., Andrew C. Chang, and Nitish R. Sinha (2019). "Evaluating the Conditionality of Judgmental Forecasts," Finance and Economics Discussion Series 2019-002. Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (U.S.).
- Berge, Travis J., Andrew C. Chang, and Nitish R. Sinha (2019). "Evaluating the Conditionality of Judgmental Forecasts," International Journal of Forecasting, vol. 35, no. 4, pp. 1627-1635.
- Heston, Steven L., and Nitish R. Sinha (2017). "News vs. Sentiment: Predicting Stock Returns from News Stories," Financial Analysts Journal, vol. 73, no. 3, pp. 67-83.
- Kyle, Albert S., Anna A. Obizhaeva, Nitish Ranjan Sinha, and Tugkan Tuzun (2017). "News Articles and Equity Trading," CEFIR / NES Working Paper, no. 233. Centre for Economic and Financial Research at New Economic School.
- Sharpe, Steven A., Nitish R. Sinha, and Christopher A. Hollrah (2017). "What's the Story? A New Perspective on the Value of Economic Forecasts," Finance and Economics Discussion Series 2017-107. Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (U.S.).
- Berge, Travis, Nitish Sinha, and Michael Smolyansky (2016). "Which Market Indicators Best Forecast Recessions?" FEDS Notes 2016-08-02. Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (U.S.).
- Heston, Steven L., and Nitish R. Sinha (2016). "News versus Sentiment: Predicting Stock Returns from News Stories," Finance and Economics Discussion Series 2016-048. Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (U.S.).
- Ogden, Rick, Francisco Palomino, Nitish Sinha, and Youngsuk Yook (2016). "Corporate Bond Issuers' Swap Exposure to Rising Interest Rates," FEDS Notes 2016-05-26. Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (U.S.).
- Sinha, Nitish Ranjan (2016). "Underreaction to News in the US Stock Market," Quarterly Journal of Finance, vol. 6, no. 2.
- Bertaut, Carol C., and Nitish Sinha (2015). "How much has Dollar Appreciation Affected U.S. Corporate Profits?" IFDP Notes 2015-07-17. Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (U.S.).
- Heston, Steven L., and Nitish Sinha (2015). "News versus Sentiment: Predicting Stock Returns from News Stories," Robert H. Smith School Research Paper, University of Maryland.
- Sinha, Nitish (2014). "Using Big Data in Finance : Example of Sentiment-Extraction from News Articles," FEDS Notes 2014-03-26. Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (U.S.).
- Kyle, Albert Sidney, Anna A. Obizhaeva, Nitish Ranjan Sinha, and Tugkan Tuzun (2012). "News Articles and the Invariance Hypothesis," AFA 2012 Chicago Meetings Paper, Midwest Finance Association 2012 Annual Meetings Paper.
- Kyle, Albert S., Anna A. Obizhaeva, Nitish Ranjan Sinha, Tugkan Tuzun (2011). "News Arrival and Trading Game Invariance," International College of Economics and Finance.
- Muehlenbachs, Lucija; Elisabeth Newcomb Sinha, and Nitish Sinha (2011). "Strategic Release of News at the EPA," Resources for the Future, Discussion Paper 11-45. Resources for the Future, Discussion Papers.
- Sinha, Nitish, and Wei Dong (2011). "Where Do Informed Traders Trade? Trading Around News on Dow 30 Options," Midwest Finance Association 2012 Annual Meetings Paper.
- Sinha, Nitish (2010). "Essays on News and Asset Prices," Ph.D. dissertation, University of Maryland.
Awards
- 2012
UIC Liautaud school of business
Favorite MBA Professor of the year
- 2011
Chicago Quantitative Alliance
Best Paper
- 2011
Midwest Finance Association
Best Paper, Investments
- 2008
Robert H Smith School of Business, University of Maryland
Allan N. Nash outstanding doctoral student award
- 2017
CFA association
Graham and Dodd scroll for best writing in the Financial Analyst Journal
Conference Organization
Oct 1-2, 2019 | Washinton DC
, Nontraditional Data, Machine Learning, and Natural Language Processing in Macroeconomics
Program Committee
May 14-15, 2019 | London
Gender and Career Progression with a focus on issues in finance, economics and central banking
Co-organizer
Referee
- Review of Financial Studies
- Accounting and Business Research
- International Journal of Forecasting
- Journal of Empirical Finance
- Quantitative Finance
- Journal of Banking and Finance
- Journal of Economic Surveys
- Journal of Applied Economics
- Financial Review
- Harvard Business Cases
Professional Affiliation
- American Finance Association
- Financial Management Association