Karthik Balakrishnan

Rice University - Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Business

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1.

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
Rice University - Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Business, 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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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
Rice University - Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Business, 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
Rice University - Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Business, 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
Rice University - Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Business, New York University, Yale SOM and Stockholm School of Economics
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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
Rice University - Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Business, New York University, Yale SOM and Stockholm School of Economics
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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
Rice University - Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Business, New York University, Yale SOM and Stockholm School of Economics
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Liquidity, Voluntary disclosure, Earnings guidance, Information production, Management communication, Investor relations, Analyst coverage, Retail investors

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Post Loss/Profit Announcement Drift

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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
Rice University - Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Business, 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
Rice University - Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Business, 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
Rice University - Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Business and Texas A&M University College Station
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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
Rice University - Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Business and Texas A&M University College Station
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Product market competition, Fraud, Earnings restatements, Tarriffs

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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, Rice University - Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Business and Texas A&M University College Station
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antitakeover laws, corporate governance, financial reporting quality, information asymmetry

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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
Rice University - Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Business, 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

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
Rice University - Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Business, 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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Analysts’ Estimates of the Cost of Equity Capital

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Analysts’ Estimates of the Cost of Equity Capital

Number of pages: 64 Posted: 28 Feb 2018 Last Revised: 04 Nov 2020
Karthik Balakrishnan, Lakshmanan Shivakumar and Peeyush Taori
Rice University - Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Business, London Business School and London Business School
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Analysts, Expected Stock Returns, Discount Rates, Cost of Equity

Analysts’ Estimates of the Cost of Equity Capital

Journal of Accounting & Economics (JAE), Forthcoming
Number of pages: 67 Posted: 09 Jan 2021
Karthik Balakrishnan, Lakshmanan Shivakumar and Peeyush Taori
Rice University - Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Business, London Business School and London Business School
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analysts, cost of equity, expected stock returns, implied cost of equity capital

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

Journal of Accounting & Economics (JAE), Forthcoming
Number of pages: 67 Posted: 23 Feb 2014 Last Revised: 24 Aug 2018
Karthik Balakrishnan, Rahul Vashishtha and Robert E. Verrecchia
Rice University - Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Business, 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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Credit Information Sharing and Loan Loss Recognition

Number of pages: 83 Posted: 08 May 2017 Last Revised: 30 Dec 2019
Karthik Balakrishnan and Aytekin Ertan
Rice University - Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Business and London Business School
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credit reform, information sharing, banking, lending, regulation, loan loss provisions

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Analyst Recommendations and Stock Price Bubbles

Journal of Financial Reporting, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 52 Posted: 24 Jun 2014 Last Revised: 12 Jul 2019
Karthik Balakrishnan, Catherine M. Schrand and Rahul Vashishtha
Rice University - Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Business, 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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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
Rice University - Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Business and London Business School
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Dark Pool, Informed Trading, Earnings Announcement, Analyst Recommendation Revision

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(When) Does Transparency Hurt Liquidity?

Singapore Management University School of Accountancy Research Paper No. 2021-126
Number of pages: 45 Posted: 07 Sep 2019 Last Revised: 07 Jan 2021
Karthik Balakrishnan, Aytekin Ertan and Yun Lee
Rice University - Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Business, London Business School and Singapore Management University
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liquidity, disclosure, securitization, information sensitivity, regulation, MBS, ABS

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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
Rice University - Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Business, New York University, Yale SOM and Stockholm School of Economics
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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
Rice University - Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Business, New York University, Yale SOM and Stockholm School of Economics
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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
Rice University - Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Business, New York University, Yale SOM and Stockholm School of Economics
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Bank Asset Transparency and Credit Supply

Number of pages: 49 Posted: 27 Apr 2017 Last Revised: 23 Sep 2019
Karthik Balakrishnan and Aytekin Ertan
Rice University - Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Business and London Business School
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Asset Disclosures; External Financing; Credit Supply; Bank Regulation; Real Effects; Small Businesses

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Do Firms Respond Differently to Local Competition? Evidence from Textual Analysis of 10-K Filings

Number of pages: 73 Posted: 07 Mar 2017 Last Revised: 15 Dec 2020
Karthik Balakrishnan and Alper Darendeli
Rice University - Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Business and Nanyang Technological University
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Geography, Product Market Competition, Text-based Analysis

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Disclosure of Mutual Fund Holdings and Insider Trading Profitability

Number of pages: 61 Posted: 27 Aug 2018
Karthik Balakrishnan, Tathagat Mukhopadhyay and Lakshmanan Shivakumar
Rice University - Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Business, University of Colorado at Boulder - Department of Accounting and London Business School
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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
Rice University - Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Business, New York University, Yale SOM and Stockholm School of Economics
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Economic Consequences of Mandatory Auditor Reporting to Bank Supervisors

University of Miami Business School Research Paper No. 3510389
Number of pages: 72 Posted: 10 Jan 2020 Last Revised: 24 Oct 2020
Karthik Balakrishnan, Emmanuel T. De George, Aytekin Ertan and Hannah Scobie
Rice University - Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Business, University of Miami, London Business School and European Economics & Financial Centre
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credit risk, regulation, bank supervision, information sharing, banking, auditing

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Identifying Information Increases in Public Credit Registries

Number of pages: 24 Posted: 08 Oct 2020
Karthik Balakrishnan and Aytekin Ertan
Rice University - Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Business and London Business School
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credit reform, public credit registries, information sharing, banking, regulation

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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
Rice University - Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Business and London Business School

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