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Gaurav Kankanhalli is an Assistant Professor of Finance at the Joseph M. Katz Graduate School of Business, University of Pittsburgh. He obtained his Ph.D. in Finance (2020) from the SC Johnson Graduate School of Management at Cornell University. Prior to that, he 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. His research is in empirical corporate finance, with a focus on the effects of uncertainty on corporate decisions, as well as innovation and entrepreneurship.

Degrees

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

Recent 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
• Corporate Hiring under Covid-19: Financing Constraints and the Nature of New Jobs (with M. Campello and P. Muthukrishnan), Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Forthcoming
• Delayed Creative Destruction: How Uncertainty Shapes Corporate Assets (with M. Campello and H. Kim), Journal of Financial Economics, Forthcoming
• Bargaining Power in the Market for Intellectual Property: Evidence from Licensing Contract Terms (with A. Kwan), Journal of Empirical Legal Studies, Forthcoming
• The Paradox of Innovation Non-Disclosure: Evidence from Licensing Contracts (with A. Kwan and K. Merkley), American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, Forthcoming
• Corporate Decision-Making under Uncertainty: Review and Future Research Directions (with M. Campello), In Handbook of Corporate Finance, David J. Denis (ed.), Forthcoming

Recent Working Papers

• Anti-Poaching Agreements, Innovation, and Corporate Value: Evidence from the Technology Industry (with D. Ferrés and P. Muthukrishnan)
• Technological Progress, Managerial Learning, and the Investment-to-Stock Price Sensitivity (with K. Aretz and H. Ilyas)

Courses Recently Taught

BUSFIN 1311 Corporate Finance