Jitendra Aswani

MIT Sloan


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Post-Doctoral Associate, MIT Sloan
Post-Doctoral Fellow, Harvard University
Ph.D. (Finance); M.Phil (Economics); B.Tech. (Chemical Engineering)

Research Interests: Corporate Governance, Corporate Finance, Sustainable Finance, Behavioral Finance, and Debt Markets.

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Email: jaswani@mit.edu


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Group Identity and Agency Frictions: Evidence using Big Data

Media Coverage: Oxford Business Law Blog, BeingBrief.in, World Bank Blog

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Seminars: Stevens Institute of Technology, University of North Texas, University of Nottingham, Harvard Business School (Finance), Harvard Econ Dept

Conferences: AFA 2021 (Doctoral Session), FMA 2020 (Ph.D. Consortium, Proposal), Royal Economic Society (RES) Annual Meeting 2021, Australasian Finance and Banking Conference (AFBC) 2020, The Econometric Society Meet 2021 (Asia), The Econometric Society Meet 2021 (North America), NEUDC 2021, FMA 2022, AFA 2023 (Scheduled).

Are carbon emissions associated with stock returns?

(with Shivaram Rajgopal and Aneesh Raghunandan)

Review of Finance (Forthcoming)

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Seminars: Ohio State University, University of Sydney, Monash University, Citi Bank

Conferences: MIT Asia Conference in Accounting 2021, Ph.D. Symposium at University of Texas (Austin), FMA 2021, SFS Cavalcade North America 2022, Western Finance Association (WFA) 2022, CICF 2022, UN PRI Academic Conference 2022

Rethinking the Value and Emission Implications of Green Bonds

(with Shivaram Rajgopal)

Revise and Resubmit (R&R)

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Seminars: Citi Bank, HBS (Finance, FECS), U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), National Stock Exchange of India (NSE), Securitites Exchange Board of India (SEBI), CAFRAL (Reserve Bank of India), Indian School of Business (ISB)

Conferences: AFA 2022 (Doctoral Session), The Econometric Society Meeting 2021 (Winter School), CMI Field Workshop 2021, FMA 2021, Asian Meeting of the Econometric Society 2022 (CUHK, Shenzhen), FMCG 2023.

Media Coverage: Columbia Law School (CLS) Blue Sky Blog, SEC Commissioner's Speech

Cost (and Unbenefit) of Conscious Capitalism

(with Alona Bilokha, Mingying Cheng, and Benjamin Cole)

New Draft Soon

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Conferences: AFA 2021 (Doctoral Session), FMA 2019, MFA 2021.

Media Coverage: Columbia Law School (CLS) Blue Sky Blog, CalCorpLaw.com, The Active Investor Blog

Impact of JOBS Act on M&As (Permanent Working Paper)

(with Sudip Gupta, **Iftekhar Hasan**, and Anthony Saunders)

Media Coverage: Columbia Law School (CLS) Blue Sky Blog

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Conferences: MFA 2018, FMA 2018, Australasian Finance and Banking Conference (ABFC) 2018.

Tournament Culture and Corporate Misconduct: Evidence using Machine Learning

Media Coverage: Oxford Business Law Blog

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Conferences: FMA 2020, Financial Research Group (FRG) Field Workshop 2020, African Meeting of the Econometric Society 2022

Debt Markets Retort to Mandatory Corporate Social Responsibility

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Research Grant: NSE - NYU Stern research grant for studying Indian capital markets.

Conferences: New York University (NYU) - National Stock Exchange (NSE) Conference 2018, Global PhD Colloquium 2019, FMA 2020, African Meeting of the Econometric Society 2023 (Scheduled)

Media Coverage: NSE White Paper Series, FinReg Blog (Duke University)