Sabrina T Howell

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

Assistant Professor of Finance

44 West 4th Street

Suite 9-160

New York, NY NY 10012

United States

http://www.sabrina-howell.com

National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)

1050 Massachusetts Avenue

Cambridge, MA 02138

United States

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Scholarly Papers (27)

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
University of Pennsylvania - Health Care Management, New York University (NYU) - Leonard N. Stern School of Business, University of Chicago and University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill - Finance Area
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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
University of Pennsylvania - Health Care Management, New York University (NYU) - Leonard N. Stern School of Business, University of Chicago and University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill - Finance Area
Downloads 463 (103,530)
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Lender Automation and Racial Disparities in Credit Access

Number of pages: 92 Posted: 11 Oct 2021 Last Revised: 21 Nov 2022
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

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, Indiana University - Kelley School of Business - Department of Finance and New York University (NYU) - Stern School of Business
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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 2023
Sabrina T Howell, Marina Niessner and David Yermack
New York University (NYU) - Leonard N. Stern School of Business, Indiana University - Kelley School of Business - Department of Finance and New York University (NYU) - Stern School of Business
Downloads 148 (327,438)
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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 1,311 (25,557)
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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: 17 May 2023
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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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
Downloads 1,535 (20,532)
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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
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 Toronto, Rotman School of Management
Downloads 1,217 (28,576)
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entrepreneurship, investor tax credit, angel financing, government subsidy

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

Number of pages: 56 Posted: 17 Apr 2020 Last Revised: 12 Apr 2023
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

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 2023
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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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 IZA Institute of Labor Economics
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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

Number of pages: 85 Posted: 11 Oct 2021 Last Revised: 03 Apr 2023
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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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 486 (98,699)
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Innovation, R&D, Entrepreneurship, Investment

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Opening up Military Innovation: Causal Effects of ‘Bottom-Up’ Reforms to U.S. Defense Research

Number of pages: 102 Posted: 13 Apr 2021 Last Revised: 03 Apr 2023
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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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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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: 05 Oct 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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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 2023
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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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
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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: 02 Jan 2023
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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All Clear for Takeoff: Evidence from Airports on the Effects of Infrastructure Privatization

Fisher College of Business Working Paper No. 2022-03-010, Charles A. Dice Center Working Paper No. 2022-10, European Corporate Governance Institute – Finance Working Paper No. 850/2022, UNSW Business School Research Paper Forthcoming
Number of pages: 94 Posted: 05 Oct 2022 Last Revised: 06 Mar 2023
Sabrina T Howell, Yeejin Jang, Hyeik Kim and Michael S. Weisbach
New York University (NYU) - Leonard N. Stern School of Business, UNSW Australia Business School, School of Banking and Finance, University of Alberta - School of Business and Ohio State University (OSU) - Department of Finance
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Infrastructure, Privatization, PE, Airports

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
Downloads 242 (209,847)
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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 2023
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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Regulatory Arbitrage or Random Errors? Implications of Race Prediction Algorithms in Fair Lending Analysis

Number of pages: 82 Posted: 25 Apr 2023 Last Revised: 09 Sep 2023
New York University (NYU) - Leonard N. Stern School of Business, New York University (NYU) - Leonard N. Stern School of Business, New York University (NYU) - Leonard N. Stern School of Business and Columbia Business School
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race prediction algorithms, racial disparities, small business lending

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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
Downloads 162 (303,166)
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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

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: 24 Apr 2023
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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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
Downloads 100 (437,525)
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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: 17 Apr 2023
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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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
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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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: 15 May 2023
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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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 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) and New York University (NYU)
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