ASHWINI K.
AGRAWAL
London School of Economics
Department of Finance
Connaught House 2.14
Houghton St, London, WC2A 2AE
Email: a.agrawal14@lse.ac.uk
EDUCATION
2003-2008 University of Chicago, Graduate School of Business (GSB) Chicago, IL
Ph.D in Economics
Dissertation: “Essays in Corporate Governance”
M.B.A. in Finance
1998-2002 Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Cambridge, MA
B.S. in Economics
B.S. in Mathematics and Computer Science
ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS
2015-Present London School of Economics London, UK
Assistant Professor of Finance
2008-2015 New York University, Stern School of Business New York, NY
Associate Professor of Finance (2014-2015)
Assistant Professor Finance (2008-2014)
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Corporate Finance, Labor Economics, Information Technology
RESEARCH PAPERS
Agrawal, Ashwini, “Corporate Governance Objectives of Labor Union Shareholders,” Review of
Financial Studies, 2012, 25(1): 187-226.
Agrawal, Ashwini, “The Impact of Investor Protection Law on Corporate Policy: Evidence
from the Blue Sky Laws,” Journal of Financial Economics, 2013, 107(2): 417-435.
Agrawal, Ashwini, and David Matsa, “Labor Unemployment Risk and Corporate Financing
Decisions,” Journal of Financial Economics, 2013, 108(2): 449-470.
Agrawal, Ashwini, and Prasanna Tambe, “Private Equity and Workers’ Career Paths: The Role
of Technological Change”, Working Paper.
HONORS AND AWARDS
2011 Review of Financial Studies Young Researcher Award
2010-2011 Glucksman Institute Research Prize (First Place) for “Labor
Unemployment Risk and Corporate Financing Decisions”
2008 New Stars of Finance Conference Selection
2007-2008 Wesley C. Picard Fund Fellowship
2003-2007 Doctoral Fellowship, University of Chicago GSB
2004 Summer Research Grant, University of Chicago GSB
OTHER RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
2004-2006 Research Assistant for Marianne Bertrand, University of Chicago GSB
2002-2003 Research Assistant for David Autor, MIT
2002-2003 Research Assistant for Ernst Berndt, MIT
2001-2002 Research Assistant for Joshua Angrist, MIT
INDUSTRY EXPERIENCE
2002-2003 Investment Associate, Putnam Investments - Fixed Income Group
2001 Analyst, Prudential Financial - Strategic Capital Allocation
2000 Analyst, Merrill Lynch - Asset Management
OTHER PUBLICATIONS
“Performance decrements resulting from illness in the workplace: the effect of headaches” (with
Glenn Pransky, Ernst Berndt, Stan Finkelstein, Santosh Verma) Journal of Occupational and
Environmental Medicine, January 2005; 47(1): 34-40.
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
REFEREE for American Economic Review, Economic Inquiry, Industrial and Labor Relations
Review, Journal of Accounting and Economics, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization,
Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Economics, Journal of Law, Economics, and
Organization, Journal of Political Economy, Management Science, RAND Journal of Economics,
Review of Finance, Review of Financial Studies
SEMINARS AND CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
2014 University of Pennsylvania (Wharton), University of Oklahoma, NBER Labor
Studies, Georgetown, University of Miami, University of North Carolina, UC San
Diego, Stanford Institute of Theoretical Economics, Western Finance Association,
Columbia GSB, Rutgers, Rochester, Michigan
2013 MIT (Sloan), University of North Carolina, University of Utah, Norwegian School
of Economics, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, London
Business School, London School of Economics, NYU Stern, University of
Maryland, University of British Columbia, University of Southern California
FOM, NBER Corporate Finance Summer Institute, NBER Spring Corporate
Financial Capital Structure Meetings, NBER Entrepreneurship Summer Workshop,
CSEF Labor and Finance Conference, Mitsui Labor and Finance Symposium
(Michigan), Kauffman Entrepreneurship Conference, Western Finance Association
2012 University of Missouri, Western Finance Association, Temple University, SUNY
Binghamton, City College of New York, Federal Reserve Bank of New York
2011 Stanford GSB, Jackson Hole Finance Conference, Western Finance Association
2010 NBER Fall Corporate Finance Meeting, American Finance Association, NYU Law
School, NYU/Penn Law and Finance Conference, Texas Finance Festival (UT
Austin), Mitsui Financial Markets Symposium (Michigan), Washington University
Corporate Finance Conference, Vanderbilt University Human Capital and Finance
Conference, NYU Stern, Columbia GSB, University of Pennsylvania (Wharton)
(Coauthor), Northwestern (Kellogg) (Coauthor), Chicago Federal Reserve Board
(Coauthor)
2009 NBER Corporate Finance Summer Institute, Conference on Empirical Legal
Studies, NASDAQ OMX Derivatives Research Project, Baruch College (Zicklin),
DePaul University/Chicago Federal Reserve Board, NYU (Stern)
2008 Duke (Fuqua), Harvard Business School, London Business School, MIT (Sloan),
Michigan (Ross), Northwestern (Kellogg), NYU (Stern), Stanford GSB, UCLA
(Anderson), University of Pennsylvania (Wharton), UT Austin (McCombs),
New Stars of Finance Conference (IE Business School)
2007 University of Chicago GSB
