Welcome to my website. I am an Assistant Professor of Finance at the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University Indianapolis. My research interests are in empirical corporate finance and political economics. 

E-mail: farroukh@iu.edu 

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Working Papers

1. Captured Equity Holders and Risk Shifting

R&R at the Journal of Banking and Finance

2. The Economic Effects of Political Polarization: Evidence from the Real Asset Market (with Ran Duchin, Jarrad Harford, and Tarun Patel)

Conditionally accepted at the Journal of Finance

Best Paper Award, 3rd HKU Summer Finance Conference

Media: The Economist, Financial Times, The FinReg Blog, Coxtoday, MarginalRevolution

3. Does Retrenchment Boost Performance? Evidence from Fallen Angels (with Jennifer Koski and Ingrid Werner)

Reject and Resubmit at the Review of Corporate Finance Studies

4. Fund Family Dynamics: A Closer Look at Monitoring by Index and Active Funds (with Jarrad Harford)

5. The Shareholder Value of Officer Exculpation: Evidence from Delaware's Amendment to Section 102(b)(7) (with Randy Heron, Tod Perry, and Jared I. Wilson)

Inactive Projects

6. Eyes on the Firm: Stakeholder Proximity and Managers’ Value Destroying Activities (with Sharon Huang, Hui James, and Samuel Tiras)

7. What Does ESG Investing Mean and Does It Matter Yet? (with Jarrad Harford and David Shin)

Media: The CLS Blue Sky Blog

Work in Progress

What's in Your 401(k)? The Role of The Plan Administrator (with Aaron Burt and Stephan Siegel)