Ali Sanati
Assistant Professor of Finance
Kogod School of Business
American University
Email: asanati@american.edu | CV | Google Scholar | SSRN | Official profile
Research interests: corporate finance, capital raising, equity financing, capital structure, dynamic structural models.
Publications:
"How Does the Stock Market Absorb Shocks?" with Murray Frank.
Journal of Financial Economics, 2018. [SSRN version] [Internet Appendix] [Replication package]"Financing Corporate Growth" with Murray Frank.
Review of Financial Studies, 2021. [SSRN version] [Internet Appendix] [Replication package]"Dissecting the Listing Gap: Mergers, Private Equity, or Regulation?" with Gabriele Lattanzio and William Megginson.
Journal of Financial Markets, 2023. [SSRN version] [Internet Appendix] [Columbia Law School Blue Sky blog]"How Does Labor Mobility Affect Corporate Leverage and Investment?" (solo-authored)
Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Conditionally Accepted. [Internet Appendix]
Book Chapter:
"The Trade-off Theory of Corporate Capital Structure" with Hengjie Ai and Murray Frank.
Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Economics and Finance, 2021. [published version]
Working Papers:
"Monetary Policy and Corporate Investment: The Equity Financing Channel" with Mehdi Beyhaghi, Murray Frank, and Ping McLemore Preliminary draft Slides (update coming soon!)
Presentations: Virtual Corporate Finance Seminar Series, American University, University of Minnesota."Comparing Capital Allocation Efficiency in Public and Private Equity Markets" with Ioannis Spyridopoulos. [Internet Appendix] (New paper!)
Covered in: Duke University's FinReg Blog
Presentations (including scheduled): 2023 FMA, 2023 SFA, 2023 DC Juniors Finance Conference, University of Minnesota F&F Conference, American University."How Does Removing the Tax Benefits of Debt Affect Firms? Evidence from the 2017 US Tax Reform" (solo-authored) [Internet Appendix]
Revise and Resubmit at the Review of Financial Studies
Covered in: Columbia Law School Blue Sky Blog, Duke University's FinReg Blog
Presentations: 2023 AFA, 2022 WFA, 2022 FIRS, 2022 MFA, 2022 E(astern)FA, American University."Rational Stock Market Catering" with Murray Frank. [Internet Appendix]
Presentations: Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business (CKGSB), Peking University, Shanghai Advanced Institute of Finance of Tsinghua University, and University of Minnesota
Work in Progress:
"Do Firms Cater to Investor Demand? A Demand System Approach" with David Stillerman.
"Corporate Debt Constraints" with Mehdi Beyhaghi and Murray Frank.
"The Impact of AI Adoption on Firms' Productivity" with Ioannis Spyridopoulos. [In progress at the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS)]
Teaching:
American University, Kogod School of Business.
Advanced Quant Methods and Machine Learning in Finance (G), 2022--present.
Business Finance (UG), 2018--present.
University of Minnesota, Carlson School of Management.
Finance Fundamentals (UG), 2015--2016.