(Jānis Skrastiņš)
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Associate Professor of Finance
University of Utah
David Eccles School of Busines
JPAL, invited researcher
1655 Campus Center Dr.
Salt Lake City, UT 84112
E: janis [AT] eccles.utah [DOT] edu
Financial Intermediation, Organizational Economics, Labor Economics, Development Economics
Financial Access and Labor Market Outcomes: Evidence from Credit Lotteries
American Economic Review (2024) with Bernardus van Doornik, Armando Gomes, and David Schoenherr
Banco Central do Brasil Award for Best Working Paper in Finance and Banking,
EMEA Best Paper Award (IWFSAS 2018 Conference)
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Econimate summary video: link
Decision-Making Delegation in Banks
Management Science (2024) with Jennifer Dlugosz, Yong Kyu Gam, and Radhakrishnan Gopalan
Barter Credit: Warehouses as a Contracting Technology
Journal of Finance (2023)
EFMA Best PhD Paper Award, MFA Outstanding Paper Award
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
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Unemployment Insurance as a Subsidy to Risky Firms
Review of Financial Studies (2022) with Bernardus van Doornik, Dimas Fazio, and David Schoenherr
Experience of Communal Conflicts and Inter-group Lending
Journal of Political Economy (2020) with Ray Fisman, Arkodipta Sarkar, and Vikrant Vig
How Organizational Hierarchy Affects Information Production
Review of Financial Studies (2019) with Vikrant Vig
(with Bernardus van Doornik, Dimas Fazio, and Tarun Ramadorai)
Media: Forbes, The Telegraph, VoxEU
Google's Deep Dive audio overview
Escaping Death: Individual Mobility and Female Mortality
(with Bernardus van Doornik and David Schoenherr)
Google's Deep Dive audio overview
(with Bernardus van Doornik, Armando Gomes, and David Schoenherr)
Court Quality and Economic Resilience
(with Dimas Fazio, Thiago Silva)
NSE Best Paper Award at ISB Summer Research Conference
Capital Budgeting and Reallocation in Banks
(with Deniz Aydin and Ernest Liu)
Heterogeneity and Optimal Loan Pricing
(with Deniz Aydin and David Sraer)
Tell Me Your Type: Information Asymmetry and Credit Allocation Through Consorcios
(with Bernardus van Doornik, Maryam Farboodi, and David Schoenherr)