Shyam Sunder (economist)

Shyam Sunder
Born	(1944-07-10) July 10, 1944 (age 79)
Academic career
Institution	Yale School of Management
Field	Accounting Theory and Experimental Economics
Alma mater	IIT Kharagpur (transferred out); Indian Railway Institute of Mechanical & Electrical Engineering; Carnegie Mellon University
Doctoral advisor	Yuji Ijiri, Robert S. Kaplan, Edward C. Prescott & Richard Roll
Contributions	Standards and Norms of Financial Reporting; Information in Security Markets; Market Properties with Zero Intelligence Traders; Simpson's Paradox in Cost Accounting
Awards	American Accounting Association’s Outstanding Accounting Educator (2013); American Accounting Association's Manuscript Award (1975); The Accounting Hall of Fame (2020)
Website	faculty.som.yale.edu/shyamsunder

Shyam Sunder (born July 10, 1944) is an accounting theorist and experimental economist. He is the James L. Frank Professor of accounting, economics, and finance at the Yale School of Management; a professor in Yale University’s Department of Economics; and a Fellow of the Whitney Humanities Center.^[1]