Shashwat Alok

Indian School of Business (ISB), Hyderabad

Assistant Professor of Finance

Hyderabad, Gachibowli 500 019

India

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Financial Inclusion and Alternate Credit Scoring: Role of Big Data and Machine Learning in Fintech

Indian School of Business
Number of pages: 85 Posted: 14 Jan 2020 Last Revised: 16 Apr 2021
Sumit Agarwal, Shashwat Alok, Pulak Ghosh and Sudip Gupta
National University of Singapore, Indian School of Business (ISB), Hyderabad, Indian Institute of Management (IIMB), Bangalore and Johns Hopkins University
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Fintech, Big data, Credit scores, Financial inclusion, Lending, Machine Learning, Mobile footprint, Prediction Counterfactual, Social footprint, Social capital

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Banking the Unbanked: What do 280 Million New Bank Accounts Reveal about Financial Access?

Columbia Business School Research Paper No. 17-12, Georgetown McDonough School of Business Research Paper No. 2906523, HKUST Finance Symposium 2017, Indian School of Business WP 2906523
Number of pages: 72 Posted: 30 Jan 2017 Last Revised: 22 Sep 2023
Sumit Agarwal, Shashwat Alok, Pulak Ghosh, Soumya Ghosh, Tomasz Piskorski and Amit Seru
National University of Singapore, Indian School of Business (ISB), Hyderabad, Indian Institute of Management (IIMB), Bangalore, State Bank of India, Columbia University - Columbia Business School, Finance and Stanford University
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Banking, Financial Inclusion, Financial Literacy, Big Data, Financial Access, Savings, Spending, Debit Card, Consumer Finance, Household Finance

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Do Fund Managers Misestimate Climatic Disaster Risk?

Review of Financial Studies, Forthcoming, Indian School of Business
Number of pages: 64 Posted: 02 Aug 2019 Last Revised: 21 Apr 2020
Shashwat Alok, Nitin Kumar and Russ Wermers
Indian School of Business (ISB), Hyderabad, Indian School of Business (ISB), Hyderabad and University of Maryland - Robert H. Smith School of Business
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Climate finance, climate risks, mutual funds

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Government Employment Guarantee, Labor Supply and Firms’ Reaction: Evidence from the Largest Public Workfare Program in the World

Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, March 2021
Number of pages: 58 Posted: 06 Dec 2016 Last Revised: 28 May 2021
Sumit Agarwal, Shashwat Alok, Yakshup Chopra and Prasanna L. Tantri
National University of Singapore, Indian School of Business (ISB), Hyderabad, University of Miami - Department of Finance and Indian School of Business
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Workfare, Labor Markets, Labor Supply, Labor Scarcity, Capital Investments, Labor and Finance, Labor-Technology Substitution, MNREGA, NREGS, NREGA

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Politics, State Ownership, and Corporate Investments

Indian School of Business WP, Review of Financial Studies, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 80 Posted: 28 Mar 2014 Last Revised: 28 Sep 2019
Shashwat Alok, Meghana Ayyagari and Meghana Ayyagari
Indian School of Business (ISB), Hyderabad and George Washington University - School of BusinessUniversity of Maryland - Robert H. Smith School of Business
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Investment, Political Interference, State-Owned Enterprises, Elections, Political Economy, SOE, Corporate Investments, Politics and Finance, Political Influence

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Stock Price Informativeness and Executive Compensation

Indian School of Business WP
Number of pages: 67 Posted: 13 Sep 2015 Last Revised: 26 Oct 2017
Shashwat Alok, Felipe Cortes and Radhakrishnan Gopalan
Indian School of Business (ISB), Hyderabad, D'Amore-McKim School of Business-Northeastern University and Washington University in St. Louis - John M. Olin Business School
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Executive Compensation, Duration, Stock Price Informativeness

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Managerial Compensation in Multi-Division Firms

Management Science, Forthcoming , Indian School of Business WP
Number of pages: 43 Posted: 17 Mar 2012 Last Revised: 12 May 2021
Shashwat Alok and Radhakrishnan Gopalan
Indian School of Business (ISB), Hyderabad and Washington University in St. Louis - John M. Olin Business School
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conglomerates, division managers, incentive contracts, compensation, executive compensation, manager, divisions, business segments

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Economic Policy Uncertainty and Global Portfolio Allocations

Number of pages: 46 Posted: 25 Aug 2022
Shashwat Alok, Apoorva Javadekar, Nitin Kumar and Russ Wermers
Indian School of Business (ISB), Hyderabad, Indian School of Business, Indian School of Business (ISB), Hyderabad and University of Maryland - Robert H. Smith School of Business
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Institutional Funds, Economic Policy Uncertainty, Fund Flows

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Creditor Rights, Threat of Liquidation, and Labor-Capital Choice of Firms

Journal of Law and Economics, Forthcoming, Indian School of Business
Number of pages: 32 Posted: 27 Jan 2019 Last Revised: 23 Aug 2022
Shashwat Alok, Ritam Chaurey and Vasudha Nukala
Indian School of Business (ISB), Hyderabad, Johns Hopkins University - Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) and Washington University in St. Louis - John M. Olin Business School
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Labor and Finance, Creditor Rights, Employment, Labor-Capital Choice, Labor Intensity, SARFAESI

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Investor Reaction to Hypothetical Disclosures in Earnings Calls

Indian School of Business WP
Number of pages: 36 Posted: 20 Oct 2022
Shashwat Alok, Nitin Kumar and Sudhir Voleti
Indian School of Business (ISB), Hyderabad, Indian School of Business (ISB), Hyderabad and Indian School of Business (ISB), Hyderabad
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Does Strengthening the Property Rights of Employee Inventors Spur Innovation? Empirical Evidence on “Freedom to Create” Laws Passed by U.S. States.

Journal of Law and Economics, Forthcoming, Indian School of Business WP Forthcoming
Number of pages: 45 Posted: 26 Aug 2022
Shashwat Alok and Krishnamurthy Subramanian
Indian School of Business (ISB), Hyderabad and Indian School of Business (ISB), Hyderabad
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Property rights, Innovation, Patents, Employee property rights