Research clusters
Research interests
- Firm dynamics
- Macroeconomics
- Financial Economics
My current research focuses on firm entry and exit, and the role of firm aging in determining macroeconomic outcomes. I am also studying how immigrants affect aggregate productivity. In the past, I have worked on power of return predictability tests, and how deposit insurance design affects risk-taking incentives for banks.
Key publications | Publications by category | Publications by year
Publications by category
Journal articles
LeRoy SF, Singhania R (2022). Size and power in tests of return predictability.
Quantitative Finance, 1-15.
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Neira J, Singhania R (2022). The role of corporate taxes in the decline of the startup rate.
Economic InquiryAbstract:
The role of corporate taxes in the decline of the startup rate
The US has experienced a joint decline in corporate tax rates and startup rates in recent decades. We study how changes in corporate taxes affect startup rates in a firm dynamics model with occupational choice. A change in profit taxes has ambiguous effects on firm selection, and therefore on the startup rate. Quantitatively, the observed fall in US corporate tax rates generates, at most, one-fifth of the startup rate decline. Sensitivity analysis suggests that this number is best interpreted as an upper bound, indicating that corporate taxes did not play a major role in the startup rate decline.
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Publications by year
2022
LeRoy SF, Singhania R (2022). Size and power in tests of return predictability.
Quantitative Finance, 1-15.
DOI.
Neira J, Singhania R (2022). The role of corporate taxes in the decline of the startup rate.
Economic InquiryAbstract:
The role of corporate taxes in the decline of the startup rate
The US has experienced a joint decline in corporate tax rates and startup rates in recent decades. We study how changes in corporate taxes affect startup rates in a firm dynamics model with occupational choice. A change in profit taxes has ambiguous effects on firm selection, and therefore on the startup rate. Quantitatively, the observed fall in US corporate tax rates generates, at most, one-fifth of the startup rate decline. Sensitivity analysis suggests that this number is best interpreted as an upper bound, indicating that corporate taxes did not play a major role in the startup rate decline.
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2015
Singhania H (2015). Pricing Default Risk in Mortgage Backed Securities.
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