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

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

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

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

4. 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

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

2. Stakeholder Proximity and Investment Efficiency (with Sharon Huang, Hui James, and Samuel Tiras)

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