Varun Sharma

Kelley School of Business, Indiana University

Assistant Professor of Finance

1275 E 10th St

Bloomington, IN 47405

United States

http://www.sharmav.com

Nanyang Business School

Assistant Professor of Finance

48 Nanyang Avenue

Singapore, Singapore 639818

Singapore

http://dr.ntu.edu.sg/cris/rp/rp02032

London Business School

Ph.D. (Finance)

Sussex Place

Regent's Park

London, London NW1 4SA

United Kingdom

http://www.sharmav.com

SCHOLARLY PAPERS

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Ideas:
“  Financial Intermediation; Climate Finance; Empirical Asset Pricing; Insurance; Fixed Income  ”

Scholarly Papers (7)

1.

The Real Effects of Environmental Activist Investing

European Corporate Governance Institute – Finance Working Paper No. 743/2021
Number of pages: 76 Posted: 05 Dec 2019 Last Revised: 30 Mar 2021
London Business School, Rice University - Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Business and Kelley School of Business, Indiana University
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Activism, Environmental Social and Governance, Socially Responsible Investment, Corporate Social Responsibility, Pensions

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(Almost) 200 Years of News-Based Economic Sentiment

Number of pages: 48 Posted: 29 Oct 2022 Last Revised: 23 Mar 2023
University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School, London Business School - Department of Finance, London Business School - Department of Finance and Kelley School of Business, Indiana University
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Business cycle, macroeconomic news, economic sentiment, monetary policy, textual analysis, machine learning, big data, neural networks

3.

Institutional Corporate Bond Pricing

Swiss Finance Institute Research Paper No. 21-07
Number of pages: 76 Posted: 15 Jan 2021 Last Revised: 24 Aug 2023
Swiss Finance Institute - HEC Lausanne, University of Southern California - Marshall School of Business, and Kelley School of Business, Indiana University
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Corporate Bond Pricing, Intermediary Asset Pricing, Demand Systems, Insurance Companies, Mutual Funds, Bond Market Fragility, ZLB, Interest Rate Liftoff, Fed Corporate Credit Facility.

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Is Firm-Level Political Exposure Priced?

TRR 266 Accounting for Transparency Working Paper Series No. 9
Number of pages: 54 Posted: 13 Nov 2019 Last Revised: 01 Feb 2023
London Business School, Frankfurt School of Finance and Management, London Business School - Institute of Finance and Accounting, Kelley School of Business, Indiana University and London Business School
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Political Risk, Asset Pricing, Political Donations, Natural Language Processing, Machine Learning

5.

The Product Market Effects of Index Inclusion

Number of pages: 86 Posted: 01 Sep 2021 Last Revised: 09 Mar 2022
Varun Sharma
Kelley School of Business, Indiana University
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Investor Heterogeneity, Benchmarking, Index Inclusion, Product Prices, Product Market, Customer Compositions, Industry Competition

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Investments that Make our Homes Greener: The Role of Regulation

Number of pages: 86 Posted: 17 Jan 2022 Last Revised: 02 Jan 2023
London Business SchoolDuke University - Finance, London Business School, London Business School and Kelley School of Business, Indiana University
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Real Estate, Household Finance, Energy Efficiency, Climate Change.

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Internal Models, Make Believe Prices, and Bond Market Cornering

Harvard Business School Working Paper
Number of pages: 66 Posted: 10 Mar 2020 Last Revised: 02 Jul 2020
Ishita Sen and Varun Sharma
and Kelley School of Business, Indiana University
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Life Insurers, Capital Regulation, Internal Models, Corporate Bonds, Regulatory Supervision, Concentrated Ownership.