I am an Assistant Professor of Finance at the A. B. Freeman School of Business at Tulane University. I received my Ph.D. in Finance at New York University's Stern School of Business.
My research interests are financial intermediation, corporate finance, and household finance.
Link to CV.
Working Papers
How Does Bank Lending To Non-Banks Affect Credit Allocation And Systemic Risk (with Apoorva Javadekar)
Does Fund Size Affect Private Equity Performance? Evidence from Donation Inflows to Private Universities (with Abhinav Gupta, Sabrina Howell and Kyle Zimmerschied)
Leveraged Payouts: How Using New Debt to Pay Returns in Private Equity Affects Firms, Employees, Creditors, and Investors (with Abhinav Gupta and Sabrina Howell)
Do firms mitigate climate impact on employment? Evidence from US heat shocks (with Viral Acharya and Tuomas Tomunen)
R&R at The Review of Financial Studies
Does Loan Securitization Expose Borrowers to Non-Bank Investor Shocks? (with Shan Ge and Saptarshi Mukherjee)
Do lending relationships matter when loans are securitized? (with Saptarshi Mukherjee)
Incentives of fund managers and precautionary fire sales (with Kose John and Saptarshi Mukherjee)
Million-dollar plants and retail prices (with Devaki Ghose, Saptarshi Mukherjee, and Manpreet Singh)
R&R at Journal of Political Economy Macroeconomics
Publications
Government investment stimulus and household balance sheet externalities (with Saptarshi Mukherjee)
Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis (2023)
Relationship banking and monetary policy transmission (with Krishnamurthy Subramanian and Prasanna Tantri)
Journal of Money, Credit and Banking (2022)
Teaching
Financial Management - Tulane University (Fall 2022, Spring 2023)
Foundations of Finance - NYU Stern (Summer 2019)
abhardwaj@tulane.edu | (929) 215 - 2434