Gaurav Kankanhalli
Assistant Professor of Finance
Katz School of Business
University of Pittsburgh
gkankanhalli@katz.pitt.edu
(607) 793-1411
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 entrepreneurship and innovation, and the real effects of uncertainty. (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 (Forthcoming)
- Exporting Uncertainty: The Impact of Brexit on Corporate America (with M. Campello, G. Cortes, and F. d’Almeida)
- Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis (Forthcoming)
- NBER Working Paper No. 26714
Working Papers
- Delayed Creative Destruction: How Uncertainty Shapes Corporate Asset Allocation (with M. Campello and H. Kim)
- Corporate Hiring under COVID-19 (with M. Campello and P. Muthukrishnan)
- NBER Working Paper No. 27208
- Speech is Silver, but Silence is Golden: Information Suppression and the Promotion of Innovation (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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