Sabrina T Howell

New York University (NYU) - Leonard N. Stern School of Business

Assistant Professor of Finance

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1.

Does Private Equity Investment in Healthcare Benefit Patients? Evidence from Nursing Homes

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Does Private Equity Investment in Healthcare Benefit Patients? Evidence from Nursing Homes

NYU Stern School of Business
Number of pages: 65 Posted: 09 Mar 2020 Last Revised: 16 Nov 2020
Atul Gupta, Sabrina T Howell, Constantine Yannelis and Abhinav Gupta
University of Pennsylvania - Health Care Management, New York University (NYU) - Leonard N. Stern School of Business, University of Chicago and New York University (NYU) - Department of Finance
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Does Private Equity Investment in Healthcare Benefit Patients? Evidence from Nursing Homes

University of Chicago, Becker Friedman Institute for Economics Working Paper No. 2021-20, NYU Stern School of Business Forthcoming
Number of pages: 78 Posted: 16 Feb 2021
Atul Gupta, Sabrina T Howell, Constantine Yannelis and Abhinav Gupta
University of Pennsylvania - Health Care Management, New York University (NYU) - Leonard N. Stern School of Business, University of Chicago and New York University (NYU) - Department of Finance
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Policy Uncertainty and Innovation: Evidence from IPO Interventions in China

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Policy Uncertainty and Innovation: Evidence from IPO Interventions in China

Chicago Booth Research Paper No. 146
Number of pages: 57 Posted: 06 Feb 2017 Last Revised: 03 May 2021
Lin William Cong and Sabrina T Howell
Cornell University - Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management and New York University (NYU) - Leonard N. Stern School of Business
Downloads 1,288 (21,917)
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Listing Suspensions, Innovation, Patent, IPO, China, Entrepreneurship

Policy Uncertainty and Innovation: Evidence from IPO Interventions in China

NBER Working Paper No. w24657
Number of pages: 72 Posted: 30 May 2018 Last Revised: 16 May 2022
Lin William Cong and Sabrina T Howell
Cornell University - Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management and New York University (NYU) - Leonard N. Stern School of Business
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Initial Coin Offerings: Financing Growth with Cryptocurrency Token Sales

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Initial Coin Offerings: Financing Growth with Cryptocurrency Token Sales

European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI) - Finance Working Paper No. 564/2018
Number of pages: 71 Posted: 16 Jul 2018 Last Revised: 14 Sep 2019
Sabrina T Howell, Marina Niessner and David Yermack
New York University (NYU) - Leonard N. Stern School of Business, University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School and New York University (NYU) - Stern School of Business
Downloads 1,458 (18,149)
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Initial coin offerings, Fintech, blockchain

Initial Coin Offerings: Financing Growth with Cryptocurrency Token Sales

NBER Working Paper No. w24774
Number of pages: 66 Posted: 06 Jul 2018 Last Revised: 12 Mar 2022
Sabrina T Howell, Marina Niessner and David Yermack
New York University (NYU) - Leonard N. Stern School of Business, University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School and New York University (NYU) - Stern School of Business
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Financing Innovation: Evidence from R&D Grants

Number of pages: 44 Posted: 07 Nov 2015 Last Revised: 02 Oct 2016
Sabrina T Howell
New York University (NYU) - Leonard N. Stern School of Business
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Automation in Small Business Lending Can Reduce Racial Disparities: Evidence from the Paycheck Protection Program

Number of pages: 81 Posted: 11 Oct 2021 Last Revised: 19 Jul 2022
Sabrina T Howell, Theresa Kuchler, David Snitkof, Johannes Stroebel and Jun Wong
New York University (NYU) - Leonard N. Stern School of Business, New York University (NYU), Ocrolus, New York University (NYU) - Leonard N. Stern School of Business and New York University (NYU)
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Fintech, Automation, Small business loans, racial discrimination, PPP

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Investor Tax Credits and Entrepreneurship: Evidence from U.S. States

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Investor Tax Credits and Entrepreneurship: Evidence from U.S. States

NYU Stern School of Business
Number of pages: 124 Posted: 08 May 2020 Last Revised: 09 Aug 2022
Matthew Denes, Sabrina T Howell, Filippo Mezzanotti, Xinxin Wang and Ting Xu
Carnegie Mellon University - Tepper School of Business, New York University (NYU) - Leonard N. Stern School of Business, Kellogg School of Management - Department of Finance, UCLA Anderson School of Management and University of Virginia - Darden School of Business
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entrepreneurship, investor tax credit, angel financing, government subsidy

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How Resilient is Venture-Backed Innovation? Evidence from Four Decades of U.S. Patenting

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How Resilient is Venture-Backed Innovation? Evidence from Four Decades of U.S. Patenting

Harvard Business School Entrepreneurial Management Working Paper No. 20-115
Number of pages: 54 Posted: 07 May 2020 Last Revised: 29 Apr 2021
Sabrina T Howell, Josh Lerner, Ramana Nanda and Richard Townsend
New York University (NYU) - Leonard N. Stern School of Business, Harvard Business School - Finance Unit, Imperial College Business School and University of California, San Diego (UCSD) - Rady School of Management
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Patents, Business Cycles, Recessions

How Resilient is Venture-Backed Innovation? Evidence from Four Decades of U.S. Patenting

NBER Working Paper No. w27150
Number of pages: 53 Posted: 18 May 2020 Last Revised: 09 Mar 2022
Sabrina T Howell, Josh Lerner, Ramana Nanda and Richard Townsend
New York University (NYU) - Leonard N. Stern School of Business, Harvard Business School - Finance Unit, Imperial College Business School and University of California, San Diego (UCSD) - Rady School of Management
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Cutting the Innovation Engine: How Federal Funding Shocks Affect University Patenting, Entrepreneurship, and Publications

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Cutting the Innovation Engine: How Federal Funding Shocks Affect University Patenting, Entrepreneurship, and Publications

Number of pages: 90 Posted: 17 Apr 2020 Last Revised: 27 Jul 2022
Tania Babina, Alex Xi He, Sabrina T Howell, Elisabeth Perlman and Joseph Staudt
Columbia University - Columbia Business School, Finance, University of Maryland - Robert H. Smith School of Business, New York University (NYU) - Leonard N. Stern School of Business, U.S. Census Bureau and U.S. Census Bureau
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Innovation, Science Funding, Universities, Entrepreneurship, Training

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Entrepreneurial Spillovers from Corporate R&D

Number of pages: 78 Posted: 26 Dec 2018 Last Revised: 27 Apr 2020
Tania Babina and Sabrina T Howell
Columbia University - Columbia Business School, Finance and New York University (NYU) - Leonard N. Stern School of Business
Downloads 398 (104,845)
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Innovation, R&D, Entrepreneurship, Investment

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Do Employees Cheer for Private Equity? The Heterogeneous Effects of Buyouts on Job Quality

Number of pages: 90 Posted: 28 Aug 2021 Last Revised: 14 Feb 2022
Will Gornall, Oleg Gredil, Sabrina T Howell, Xing Liu and Jason Sockin
University of British Columbia (UBC) - Sauder School of Business, Tulane University - A.B. Freeman School of Business, New York University (NYU) - Leonard N. Stern School of Business, University of British Columbia (UBC) - Sauder School of Business and University of Pennsylvania
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private equity, leveraged buyouts, job quality, employees, corporate culture, non-pecuniary amenities, implicit contracts

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Local Journalism under Private Equity Ownership

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Local Journalism under Private Equity Ownership

Number of pages: 63 Posted: 11 Oct 2021 Last Revised: 04 Feb 2022
Michael Ewens, Arpit Gupta and Sabrina T Howell
Columbia Business School, NYU Stern School of Business and New York University (NYU) - Leonard N. Stern School of Business
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Private equity, newspapers, media, local journalism, civic engagement

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Networking Frictions in Venture Capital, and the Gender Gap in Entrepreneurship

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Networking Frictions in Venture Capital, and the Gender Gap in Entrepreneurship

Harvard Business School Entrepreneurial Management Working Paper No. 19-105, NYU Stern School of Business
Number of pages: 58 Posted: 23 Apr 2019 Last Revised: 08 Aug 2022
Sabrina T Howell and Ramana Nanda
New York University (NYU) - Leonard N. Stern School of Business and Imperial College Business School
Downloads 278 (153,560)
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Entrepreneurship, Venture Capital, Gender, Information Frictions, Networks

Networking Frictions in Venture Capital, and the Gender Gap in Entrepreneurship

NBER Working Paper No. w26449
Number of pages: 49 Posted: 11 Nov 2019 Last Revised: 09 Apr 2022
Sabrina T Howell and Ramana Nanda
New York University (NYU) - Leonard N. Stern School of Business and Imperial College Business School
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Leapfrogging or Stalling Out? Electric Vehicles in China

HKS Working Paper No. RWP14-035
Number of pages: 67 Posted: 09 Sep 2014
Sabrina T Howell, Henry Lee and Adam Heal
New York University (NYU) - Leonard N. Stern School of Business, Harvard University - Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) and Harvard University - Harvard Kennedy School (HKS)
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Opening up Military Innovation: Causal Effects of ‘Bottom-Up’ Reforms to U.S. Defense Research

Number of pages: 100 Posted: 13 Apr 2021 Last Revised: 24 Aug 2021
Sabrina T Howell, Jason Rathje, John Van Reenen and Jun Wong
New York University (NYU) - Leonard N. Stern School of Business, Government of the United States of America - U.S. Air Force Academy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and New York University (NYU)
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Innovation, defense, R&D, procurement

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Learning from Feedback: Evidence from New Ventures

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Learning from Feedback: Evidence from New Ventures

Number of pages: 86 Posted: 05 Oct 2017 Last Revised: 26 May 2020
Sabrina T Howell
New York University (NYU) - Leonard N. Stern School of Business
Downloads 228 (186,873)
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Entrepreneurship, Learning

Reducing Information Frictions in Venture Capital: The Role of New Venture Competitions

NBER Working Paper No. w23874
Number of pages: 54 Posted: 02 Oct 2017 Last Revised: 27 Mar 2022
Sabrina T Howell
New York University (NYU) - Leonard N. Stern School of Business
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Do Cash Windfalls Affect Wages? Evidence from R&D Grants to Small Firms

NYU Stern School of Business
Number of pages: 71 Posted: 02 Nov 2019 Last Revised: 01 Apr 2020
Sabrina T Howell and J. David Brown
New York University (NYU) - Leonard N. Stern School of Business and US Census Bureau Center for Economic Studies
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When Investor Incentives and Consumer Interests Diverge: Private Equity in Higher Education

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When Investor Incentives and Consumer Interests Diverge: Private Equity in Higher Education

NYU Stern School of Business
Number of pages: 101 Posted: 13 May 2019 Last Revised: 31 Mar 2020
Charlie Eaton, Sabrina T Howell and Constantine Yannelis
University of California, Merced, New York University (NYU) - Leonard N. Stern School of Business and University of Chicago
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Private equity, education, incentive alignment

When Investor Incentives and Consumer Interests Diverge: Private Equity in Higher Education

NBER Working Paper No. w24976
Number of pages: 102 Posted: 17 Sep 2018 Last Revised: 31 Mar 2022
Charlie Eaton, Sabrina T Howell and Constantine Yannelis
University of California, Merced, New York University (NYU) - Leonard N. Stern School of Business and University of Chicago
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Joint Ventures and Technology Adoption: A Chinese Industrial Policy that Backfired

Number of pages: 47 Posted: 16 Jun 2016
Sabrina T Howell
New York University (NYU) - Leonard N. Stern School of Business
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Reducing Information Frictions in Venture Capital: The Role of New Venture Competitions

Number of pages: 61 Posted: 22 Jan 2019 Last Revised: 15 Oct 2019
Sabrina T Howell
New York University (NYU) - Leonard N. Stern School of Business
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venture capital, information asymmetry, entrepreneurship, competitions

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Firm Type Variation in the Cost of Risk Management

Number of pages: 72 Posted: 16 Jun 2016 Last Revised: 08 Jun 2020
Sabrina T Howell
New York University (NYU) - Leonard N. Stern School of Business
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Do Cash Windfalls Affect Wages? Evidence from R&D Grants to Small Firms

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Do Cash Windfalls Affect Wages? Evidence from R&D Grants to Small Firms

NBER Working Paper No. w26717
Number of pages: 68 Posted: 03 Feb 2020 Last Revised: 03 Jul 2022
Sabrina T Howell and J. David Brown
New York University (NYU) - Leonard N. Stern School of Business and US Census Bureau Center for Economic Studies
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Do Cash Windfalls Affect Wages? Evidence from R&D Grants to Small Firms

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12942
Number of pages: 69 Posted: 10 Feb 2020
Sabrina T Howell and J. David Brown
New York University (NYU) - Leonard N. Stern School of Business and US Census Bureau Center for Economic Studies
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earnings inequality, rent sharing, R&D grants, regression discontinuity design

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Racial Disparities in Access to Small Business Credit: Evidence from the Paycheck Protection Program

CESifo Working Paper No. 9345
Number of pages: 89 Posted: 18 Oct 2021
Sabrina T Howell, Theresa Kuchler, David Snitkof, Johannes Stroebel and Jun Wong
New York University (NYU) - Leonard N. Stern School of Business, New York University (NYU), Ocrolus, New York University (NYU) - Leonard N. Stern School of Business and University of Chicago
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Entrepreneurial Spillovers from Corporate R&D

NBER Working Paper No. w25360
Number of pages: 76 Posted: 17 Dec 2018 Last Revised: 18 Apr 2021
Tania Babina and Sabrina T Howell
Columbia University - Columbia Business School, Finance and New York University (NYU) - Leonard N. Stern School of Business
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Opening Up Military Innovation: Causal Effects of 'Bottom-Up' Reforms to U.S. Defense Research

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14297
Number of pages: 96 Posted: 26 Apr 2021
Sabrina T Howell, Jason Rathje, John Van Reenen, John Van Reenen and Jun Wong
New York University (NYU) - Leonard N. Stern School of Business, Government of the United States of America - U.S. Air Force Academy, London School of Economics - Centre for Economic Performance (CEP)Stanford Graduate School of Business and New York University (NYU)
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Financing Entrepreneurship Through the Tax Code: Angel Investor Tax Credits

NBER Working Paper No. w26486
Number of pages: 62 Posted: 27 Nov 2019 Last Revised: 16 May 2021
Sabrina T Howell and Filippo Mezzanotti
New York University (NYU) - Leonard N. Stern School of Business and Kellogg School of Management - Department of Finance
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