Gaurav Kankanhalli
Assistant Professor of Finance
Katz School of Business
University of Pittsburgh
gkankanhalli@katz.pitt.edu
(412) 383-0169
I am an Assistant Professor of Finance at the Joseph M. Katz Graduate School of Business, University of Pittsburgh. I obtained my Ph.D. in Finance from the SC Johnson Graduate School of Management at Cornell University. Prior to that, I completed a B.A. (Hons.) in Economics and Management (2013) and an M.Sc. (with Distinction) in Financial Economics (2014) from the University of Oxford. (Link to CV)
My research is in empirical corporate finance, and focuses on the effects of uncertainty on corporate decisions, as well as innovation and entrepreneurship. (My Google Scholar Profile)
Research
Publications
- Do Real Estate Values Boost Corporate Borrowing? Evidence from Contract-Level Data (with M. Campello, R. A. Connolly, and E. Steiner)
- Journal of Financial Economics, 2022, 144(2), 611-644
- Exporting Uncertainty: The Impact of Brexit on Corporate America (with M. Campello, G. Cortes, and F. d’Almeida)
- Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, 2022, 57(8), 3178-3222
- NBER Working Paper No. 26714
- Corporate Hiring under Covid-19: Financial Constraints and the Nature of New Jobs (with M. Campello and P. Muthukrishnan)
- Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Forthcoming
- NBER Working Paper No. 27208
Working Papers
- Delayed Creative Destruction: How Uncertainty Shapes Corporate Assets (with M. Campello and H. Kim)
- Revise & Resubmit
- NBER Working Paper No. 28971
- NBER Digest No. 8 (August 2021)
- Technological Progress, Managerial Learning, and the Investment-to-Stock Price Sensitivity (with K. Aretz and H. Ilyas)
- Corporate Decision-Making under Uncertainty: Review and Future Research Directions (with M. Campello)
- NBER Working Paper No. 30733
- Anti-Poaching Agreements, Innovation, and Corporate Value: Evidence from the Technology Industry (with D. Ferrés and P. Muthukrishnan)
- Best Paper Award in Corporate Finance, FMA Annual Meeting, 2022
- Looking Online to Understand Firms’ Intangible Capital (with A. Kwan and P. Kantak)
- The Paradox of Innovation Non-Disclosure: Evidence from Licensing Contracts (with A. Kwan and K. Merkley)
- Bargaining Power in the Market for Intellectual Property: Evidence from Licensing Contract Terms (with A. Kwan)
- Betting on Disruption: How Uncertainty Shapes the US Startup Ecosystem
Curriculum Vitae
Teaching
Instructor, University of Pittsburgh:
- Corporate Finance, Undergraduate (2020-Present)
Contact
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