Research
Janis Skrastins
(Jānis Skrastiņš)
CV: link
Assistant Professor of Finance
Washington University in St. Louis
Olin Business School
SH 221, Campus Box 1133
One Brookings Drive
St. Louis, MO 63130-4899
E: jskrastins [AT] wustl [DOT] edu
Research Interests
Organizational Economics, Banking, Financial Intermediation, Labor Economics, Emerging Markets, Networks
RA Work
I am looking for research assistants who are fluent in Portuguese and are accustomed to Brazil. Please send me an email if you are interested.
Publications
How Organizational Hierarchy Affects Information Production
Review of Financial Studies (2019) with Vikrant Vig
Experience of Communal Conflicts and Inter-group Lending
Journal of Political Economy (2020) with Ray Fisman, Arkodipta Sarkar, and Vikrant Vig
Unemployment Insurance as a Subsidy to Risky Firms
Review of Financial Studies (2022) with Bernardus van Doornik, Dimas Fazio, and David Schoenherr
Strategic Formal Layoffs: Unemployment Insurance and Informal Labor Markets
American Economic Journal: Applied Economics (2023) with Bernardus van Doornik and David Schoenherr
Banco Central do Brasil Award for Best Working Paper in Economics
VoxDev summary: link
Barter Credit: Warehouses as a Contracting Technology
Journal of Finance (2023)
EFMA Best PhD Paper Award, MFA Outstanding Paper Award
Decision-Making Delegation in Banks
Management Science, accepted (with Jennifer Dlugosz, Yong Kyu Gam and Radhakrishnan Gopalan)
Working Papers
Financial Access and Labor Market Outcomes: Evidence from Credit Lotteries
(with Bernardus van Doornik, Armando Gomes, and David Schoenherr)
Revision requested by American Economic Review
Banco Central do Brasil Award for Best Working Paper in Finance and Banking,
EMEA Best Paper Award (IWFSAS 2018 Conference)
Court Quality and Economic Resilience
(with Dimas Fazio, Thiago Silva)
NSE Best Paper Award at ISB Summer Research Conference
Work in Progress
Escaping Violent Death: Access to Credit and Female Mortality
(with Bernardus van Doornik and David Schoenherr)
Tell Me Your Type: Information Asymmetry and Credit Allocation Through Consorcios
(with Bernardus van Doornik, Maryam Farboodi, and David Schoenherr)
Household Finance under Asymmetric Information and Liquidity Constraints
(with Bernardus van Doornik, Armando Gomes, and David Schoenherr)