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Karthik Balakrishnan

London Business School

Assistant Professor

Sussex Place

Regent's Park

London, NW1 4SA

United Kingdom

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Scholarly Papers (17)

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1.

The Effect of Accounting Conservatism on Corporate Investment during the Global Financial Crisis

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The Effect of Accounting Conservatism on Corporate Investment during the Global Financial Crisis

Journal of Business Finance and Accounting, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 45 Posted: 01 Nov 2011 Last Revised: 04 Jul 2016
Karthik Balakrishnan, Ross L. Watts and Luo Zuo
London Business School, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management and Cornell University - Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management
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Accounting Conservatism; Investment; Information Frictions; Financing Constraints; Crisis

The Effect of Accounting Conservatism on Corporate Investment during the Global Financial Crisis

Journal of Business Finance and Accounting, Vol. 43, No. 5-6, 2016
Number of pages: 45 Posted: 06 Jul 2016 Last Revised: 27 Jul 2016
Karthik Balakrishnan, Ross L. Watts and Luo Zuo
London Business School, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management and Cornell University - Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management
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Accounting Conservatism; Investment; Information Frictions; Financing Constraints; Crisis

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Shaping Liquidity: On the Causal Effects of Voluntary Disclosure

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Shaping Liquidity: On the Causal Effects of Voluntary Disclosure

Journal of Finance, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 57 Posted: 28 Oct 2011 Last Revised: 25 Aug 2013
Karthik Balakrishnan, Mary Brooke Billings, Bryan T. Kelly and Alexander Ljungqvist
London Business School, New York University, Yale SOM and New York University (NYU) - Department of Finance
Downloads 1,718 (7,837)
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Liquidity, Voluntary disclosure, Earnings guidance, Information production, Management communication, Investor relations, Analyst coverage, Retail investors

Shaping Liquidity: On the Causal Effects of Voluntary Disclosure

Journal of Finance, Forthcoming, NYU Working Paper No. 2451/31352
Number of pages: 57 Posted: 03 Apr 2012 Last Revised: 25 Aug 2013
Karthik Balakrishnan, Mary Brooke Billings, Bryan T. Kelly and Alexander Ljungqvist
London Business School, New York University, Yale SOM and New York University (NYU) - Department of Finance
Downloads 271 (99,443)
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Shaping Liquidity: On the Causal Effects of Voluntary Disclosure

Journal of Finance, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 57 Posted: 14 Mar 2012 Last Revised: 25 Aug 2013
Karthik Balakrishnan, Mary Brooke Billings, Bryan T. Kelly and Alexander Ljungqvist
London Business School, New York University, Yale SOM and New York University (NYU) - Department of Finance
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Liquidity, Voluntary disclosure, Earnings guidance, Information production, Management communication, Investor relations, Analyst coverage, Retail investors

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Tax Aggressiveness and Corporate Transparency

Number of pages: 67 Posted: 27 Mar 2011 Last Revised: 15 Jul 2017
Karthik Balakrishnan, Jennifer Blouin and Wayne R. Guay
London Business School, University of Pennsylvania - Accounting Department and University of Pennsylvania - Accounting Department
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Tax aggressiveness, tax planning, information content, earnings quality

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Post Loss/Profit Announcement Drift

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Citation 11

Post Loss/Profit Announcement Drift

Journal of Accounting & Economics (JAE), Vol. 50, No. 1, 2010
Number of pages: 56 Posted: 21 Nov 2009 Last Revised: 07 May 2013
Karthik Balakrishnan, Eli Bartov and Lucile Faurel
London Business School, NYU Stern School of Business and Arizona State University
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Loss/profit mispricing, loss/profit predictability, accounting losses/profits, post earnings announcement drift, earnings-based anomalies

Post Loss/Profit Announcement Drift

NYU Stern School of Business Working Paper
Number of pages: 64 Posted: 21 Jan 2014
Karthik Balakrishnan, Eli Bartov and Lucile Faurel
London Business School, NYU Stern School of Business and Arizona State University
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Loss/profit mispricing, loss/profit predictability, accounting losses, accounting profits, earnings-based anomalies

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Competition and Financial Accounting Misreporting

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Competition and Financial Accounting Misreporting

Number of pages: 52 Posted: 15 Sep 2011 Last Revised: 02 Oct 2013
Karthik Balakrishnan and Daniel A. Cohen
London Business School and University of Texas at Dallas - Naveen Jindal School of Management
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Product Market Competition, Disclosure, Financial Reporting Quality, Earnings Restatements, Tariffs

Competition and Financial Accounting Misreporting

Number of pages: 51 Posted: 10 Jun 2014 Last Revised: 13 Sep 2014
Karthik Balakrishnan and Daniel A. Cohen
London Business School and University of Texas at Dallas - Naveen Jindal School of Management
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Product market competition, Fraud, Earnings restatements, Tarriffs

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The Relation between Reporting Quality and Financing and Investment: Evidence from Changes in Financing Capacity

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The Relation between Reporting Quality and Financing and Investment: Evidence from Changes in Financing Capacity

Number of pages: 52 Posted: 24 Sep 2011 Last Revised: 08 Jul 2013
Karthik Balakrishnan, John E. Core and Rodrigo S. Verdi
London Business School, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Downloads 704 (30,621)
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Reporting quality, investment, collateral, financing constraints

The Relation between Reporting Quality and Financing and Investment: Evidence from Changes in Financing Capacity

Journal of Accounting Research, Vol. 52, No. 1, 2014
Posted: 05 Mar 2014
Karthik Balakrishnan, John E. Core and Rodrigo S. Verdi
London Business School, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

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Reporting quality, investment, collateral, financing constraints

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Corporate Governance and the Information Environment: Evidence from State Antitakeover Laws

Journal of Accounting & Economics (JAE), Forthcoming.
Number of pages: 51 Posted: 10 Mar 2010 Last Revised: 15 Nov 2011
Chris Armstrong, Karthik Balakrishnan and Daniel A. Cohen
University of Pennsylvania - Accounting Department, London Business School and University of Texas at Dallas - Naveen Jindal School of Management
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antitakeover laws, corporate governance, financial reporting quality, information asymmetry

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Foreign Competition for Shares and the Pricing of Information Asymmetry: Evidence from Equity Market Liberalization

Number of pages: 65 Posted: 23 Feb 2014 Last Revised: 18 Feb 2018
Karthik Balakrishnan, Rahul Vashishtha and Robert E. Verrecchia
London Business School, Duke University and University of Pennsylvania - Accounting Department
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Pricing of Information Asymmetry; Cost of Capital; Competition; Information Quality; Foreign Investors

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Shaping Liquidity: On the Causal Effects of Voluntary Disclosure

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Shaping Liquidity: On the Causal Effects of Voluntary Disclosure

Journal of Finance, Forthcoming, NYU Working Paper No. 2451/31352
Number of pages: 57 Posted: 21 Sep 2012 Last Revised: 25 Aug 2013
Karthik Balakrishnan, Mary Brooke Billings, Bryan T. Kelly and Alexander Ljungqvist
London Business School, New York University, Yale SOM and New York University (NYU) - Department of Finance
Downloads 141 (184,470)
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Shaping Liquidity: On the Causal Effects of Voluntary Disclosure

NYU Working Paper No. 2451/31352
Number of pages: 47 Posted: 10 Sep 2013
Karthik Balakrishnan, Mary Brooke Billings, Bryan T. Kelly and Alexander Ljungqvist
London Business School, New York University, Yale SOM and New York University (NYU) - Department of Finance
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Shaping Liquidity: On the Causal Effects of Voluntary Disclosure

NBER Working Paper No. w18984
Number of pages: 54 Posted: 20 Apr 2013 Last Revised: 25 Apr 2013
Karthik Balakrishnan, Mary Brooke Billings, Bryan T. Kelly and Alexander Ljungqvist
London Business School, New York University, Yale SOM and New York University (NYU) - Department of Finance
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Analyst Recommendations and Rational Speculation

Number of pages: 47 Posted: 24 Jun 2014 Last Revised: 28 Jun 2017
Karthik Balakrishnan, Catherine M. Schrand and Rahul Vashishtha
London Business School, University of Pennsylvania - Accounting Department and Duke University
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Public information, Analyst recommendations, Mispricing, Technology Bubble, Higher Order Beliefs, Rational Speculation

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Shaping Liquidity: On the Casual Effects of Voluntary Disclosure

NYU Working Paper No. 2451/31614
Number of pages: 48 Posted: 10 Sep 2013
Karthik Balakrishnan, Mary Brooke Billings, Bryan T. Kelly and Alexander Ljungqvist
London Business School, New York University, Yale SOM and New York University (NYU) - Department of Finance
Downloads 78 (251,702)
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Analysts’ Estimates of Cost of Equity Capital

Number of pages: 46 Posted: 28 Feb 2018 Last Revised: 01 Mar 2018
Karthik Balakrishnan, Lakshmanan Shivakumar and Peeyush Taori
London Business School, London Business School and London Business School
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Analysts, Expected Stock Returns, Discount Rates, Cost of Equity

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Information Asymmetry and Trading in Dark Pools: Evidence From Earnings Announcement and Analyst Recommendation Revisions

Number of pages: 43 Posted: 22 May 2017
Karthik Balakrishnan and Peeyush Taori
London Business School and London Business School
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Dark Pool, Informed Trading, Earnings Announcement, Analyst Recommendation Revision

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Credit Information Sharing and Loan Loss Recognition

Number of pages: 66 Posted: 08 May 2017 Last Revised: 02 Feb 2018
Karthik Balakrishnan and Aytekin Ertan
London Business School and London Business School
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credit reform, information sharing, banking, lending, loan loss recognition

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Mandatory Bank Disclosures and Credit Supply

Number of pages: 61 Posted: 27 Apr 2017 Last Revised: 02 Feb 2018
Karthik Balakrishnan and Aytekin Ertan
London Business School and London Business School
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Mandatory Disclosure, External Financing, Credit Supply, Bank Regulation, Real Effects

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Banks’ Financial Reporting Frequency and Asset Quality

The Accounting Review, Forthcoming
Posted: 09 Mar 2017 Last Revised: 30 Sep 2017
Karthik Balakrishnan and Aytekin Ertan
London Business School and London Business School

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Financial Reporting Frequency, Banking, Regulation, Asset Quality, Lending

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Localized Competition and Firm Performance

Number of pages: 67 Posted: 07 Mar 2017 Last Revised: 30 Oct 2017
Karthik Balakrishnan and Alper Darendeli
London Business School and London Business School
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Geography, Product Market Competition, Text-based Analysis, Innovation, Cash Holdings, Dividends, Analyst Forecasts, Predictability