Ali Kakhbod, PhD, UC Berkeley
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Are Patents with Female Inventors Under-Cited? Evidence from Text Estimation
NBER WP
(with Yael V. Hochberg, Peiyao Li and Kunal Sachdeva)

Keywords: Machine learning, Patent, Innovation, Text data, Transformers (Encoders), Inference, Gender
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Glass Box Machine Learning and Corporate Bond Returns
NBER WP
(with Sebi Bell, Martin Lettau and A. Nazemi)

Keywords: Glassbox Machine learning, Corporate bonds, Uncertainty

Finfluencers
CEPR WP

(with Seyed Kazempour, Dmitry Livdan and Norman Schürhoff)
Keywords: Machine learning, Social media, wisdom of the crowd, Belief bias
Media coverage: Yahoo Finance, Business Insider, CFA Institute Blog, Investment Executive, Inc.com

Measuring Creative Destruction
(with Leonid Kogan, Peiyao Li and Dimitris Papanikolaou)
Keywords: Innovation, Displacement, Patents, Machine learning ​

AI and Perception Biases in Investments: An Experimental Study
(with Anastassia Fedyk, Peiyao Li and Ulrike Malmendier)
Keywords: Investment preferences, Machine learning, Behavioral biases, Financial surveys
(Best Paper in DC Fintech week 2024) 

Life after default: How dealer intermediation improves default recovery 
(with Friedrich Baumann, Dmitry Livdan, Abdolreza Nazemi and Norman Schürhoff)
Keywords: Big data, Corporate default, Recovery rate, Corporate bonds, OTC 
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Process Intangibles and Agency Conflicts
(with Hui Chen, Mazi Kazemi and Hao Xing)
Keywords: Process and product Intangibles, Compensation, Information friction, Capital market

Segmented Trading Markets
(with Kerry Back, Oguzhan Celebi and Max Reppen)

​Keywords: Segmented markets, Trading volume, Speed, Competition

Do Intermediaries Improve GSE Lending? Evidence from Proprietary GSE Data 
(with Josh Bosshardt and Amir Kermani)
Keywords: Lending, Underwriting risk, Overlays, Bank and Nonbanks 
(Semi-Finalist, Best Paper in Intermediation, FMA, 2023)
​(Best Paper Award for Real Estate Finance (American Real Estate Society), 2024)

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​Before the Storm: Firm Policies and Varying Recession Risk 
(with Dmitry Livdan, Max Reppen and Tarik Umar)
Keywords: Uncertainty, Liquidity, Recession risk, Business cycle
(Semi-Finalist, Best Paper in Corporate finance, FMA, 2023)

​Heterogeneous Learning in Product Markets
(with Giacomo Lanzani and Hao Xing)
Keywords: Learning, Information friction, Competition, Trading volume, Market power

​Public vs. Private offers with informed and forward-looking dealers 
(with Fei Song)
​Keywords: Municipal bond, Liquidity, Information friction, Trading volume, Disclosure, Welfare, OTC

The Credit Supply Channel of Monetary Policy Tightening and its Distributional Impacts 
Journal of Financial Economics (JFE)
vol 160 (with Josh Bosshardt, Marco Di Maggio and Amir Kermani)
Keywords: Lending, Interest rate, Mortgage lending, house prices, Debt-to-income (DTI)

Does the level of cash always increase with firm size?
​Theory and evidence from small firms

Review of Finance (RF)
(with Max Reppen, Tarik Umar and Hao Xing)

Keywords: Liquidity, Cash holding, Size, Costly financing, Estimation, Viscosity solutions
(SWFA Best Paper Prize in Corporate Finance, 2023)

​Advising the Management: A Theory of Shareholder Engagement 
SSRN, Online Appendix, (Lead article and Editor’s Choice article)
Review of Financial Studies (RFS)
vol 36 (with Uliana Loginova, Andrey Malenko, Nadya Malenko)
​​Keywords: Trading, Information friction, Belief vs Bias, Voting, Incentive

Optimal Contracting in Networks
Journal of Economic Theory (JET)

vol 183 (with Ali Jadbabaie)
Keywords: Networks, Information friction, Network externality, Financial networks, Contracts

​Information Choice and Amplification of Financial Crises   
Review of Financial Studies (RFS) 

vol 30 
(with Toni Ahnert)
Keywords: Financial crises, Information panics, Costly information acquisition, Global games
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​Dynamic Price Discovery: Transparency vs. Information Design  
Games and Economic Behavior (GEB)
vol 122  (with Fei Song)

​Keywords: Dynamic price discovery, Learning dynamics, Heterogenous risk aversion, Information friction

Dynamic Pricing in Social Networks: The Word of Mouth Effect 
Management Science (MS)

vol 64  (with Amir Ajorlou and Ali Jadbabaie)
​Keywords: Networks, COASE Conjecture, Price fluctuations, Zero pricing, Information diffusion

​When does introducing verifiable communication choices improve welfare?
Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization
vol 210 (with Uliana Loginova)
​​Keywords: Networks, Corporate governance, Communication, Welfare, Board of directors
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Competition in Electricity Markets with Renewable Energy Sources
Energy Journal (invited)  
​vol 38 ​(with Daron Acemoglu and Asu Ozdaglar)
​Keywords:  Merit order effect hypothesis, Forward contract, Renewable energy, Price volatility  
- A preliminary version of this paper was accepted for presentation in  52nd Annual Allerton Conference, UIUC (Allerton'14)

Selling Wind
Energy Journal  
​vol 42 ​(with Asu Ozdaglar and Ian Schneider)
​Keywords:  Market power, Pricing wind, Diversification, Investment, Public forecasting, Collusion, Electricity markets, Renewable energy
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​Book: Resource Allocation in Decentralized Systems with Strategic Agents: An Implementation Theory Approach 
 Springer Outstanding PhD Thesis Award [link]

 Winner of the Richard and Eleanor Towner Prize
​  for Distinguished Academic Achievement 


Keywords: Mechanism design, Contract, Complex Networks, Optimal pricing

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Book Chapter: Power Allocation, Spectrum Sharing, and Revenue Maximization  in Networks: An Implementation Theory Approach Ch. 5 in Mechanisms and Games for Dynamic Spectrum Allocation.  Editors: T. Alpcan, H. Boche, M. Honig, H. Vincent Poor. 
Cambridge University Press  

(with  A. Nayyar, S. Sharma and D. Teneketzis)
Keywords: Mechanism design, Auction, Contract, Complex Networks


​An Efficient Game Form for Unicast Service Provisioning
IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control (TAC) 
vol 57 (with Demos Teneketzis) 

Keywords: Mechanism design, Game theory, Control, Full Nash Implementation, Market mechanisms, Wallrasian equilibrium

Power Allocation and Spectrum Sharing in Multiuser Multichannel Systems with Strategic Users 
IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control (TAC)  
vol 57 (with Demos Teneketzis)

Keywords: Mechanism design, Game theory, Control, Full Nash Implementation, Public good mechanisms, Lindahl equilibrium, Budget balance on and off equilibrium, Individual rationality, Contract

An Efficient Game Form for Multi-rate Multicast Service Provisioning
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (JSAC)
Lead article in the Special issue on "Network Economics" 
​vol 30 (with Demos Teneketzis) 

Keywords: Mechanism design, Game theory, Control, Public good/Market mechanisms, Lindahl/Wallrasian equilibrium, Budget balance on and off equilibrium, Individual rationality, Contract

Tight Bounds On the Redundancy of Huffman codes  
IEEE Transactions on Information Theory (IT)  
vol 58 (with Soheil Mohajer, Payam Pakzad)

Keywords: A proof to the YE & YEUNG Conjecture, Shannon theory, Probability theory

On Describing the Routing Capacity Regions of Networks 
Mathematical Methods of Operations Research (MMOR)
vol 72  (with Sadegh M. S. Yazdi)

Keywords: Complexity theory, Probabilistic methods, Fourier–Motzkin elimination, Farkas lemma, Japanese theorem
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Last Update: 2023