Gaurav Kankanhalli

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.

Degrees

• Ph.D., Finance, Cornell University
• M.Sc., Financial Economics, University of Oxford
• B.A. (Hons.), Economics and Management, University of Oxford

Recent Publications Recent Working Papers

• Global Effects of the Brexit Referendum: Evidence from US Corporations (with M. Campello, G. Cortes, and F. d’Almeida)

• Delayed Creative Destruction: How Uncertainty Shapes Corporate Asset Allocation (with M. Campello and H. Kim)

• Do Real Estate Values Boost Corporate Borrowing? Evidence from Contract-Level Data (with M. Campello, R.A. Connolly, and E. Steiner)

• Corporate Hiring under COVID-19: Labor Market Concentration, Downskilling, and Income Inequality (with M. Campello and P. Muthukrishnan)

• 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

Academic Area

• Finance