Cyrus Aghamolla

About

Cyrus Aghamolla is an associate professor of accounting at Rice University, Jones Graduate School of Business. His research focuses on social learning, communication in capital markets, voluntary disclosure, adverse selection, initial public offerings, healthcare finance, and private equity. He is involved in advancing understanding in these areas through his academic work, contributing to the field of accounting and finance.

Research topics

• Business
• Accounting
• Finance
• Economics
• Marketing
• Monetary economics
• Management
• Microeconomics
• Industrial organization

Selected publications

• Merchants of Death: The Effect of Credit Supply Shocks on Hospital Outcomes

  American Economic Review · 2024-10-30 · 22 citations

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  This study examines the link between credit supply and hospital health outcomes. We use bank stress tests as exogenous shocks to credit access for hospitals that have lending relationships with tested banks. We find that affected hospitals shift their operations to increase resource utilization following a negative credit shock but reduce the quality of their care to patients across a variety of measures, including a significant increase in risk-adjusted readmission and mortality rates. The resu…

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• Merchants of Death: The Effect of Credit Supply Shocks on Hospital Outcomes

  SSRN Electronic Journal · 2021-01-01 · 5 citations

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• Sequential Reporting Bias

  The Accounting Review · 2024-04-10 · 4 citations

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  ABSTRACT Firms with correlated fundamentals often issue reports sequentially, leading to information spillovers. The theoretical literature has investigated multifirm reporting, but only when firms report simultaneously. We examine the implications of sequential reporting, where firms aim to maximize their market price and can manipulate their reports. The introduction of sequentiality significantly alters the biasing behavior of firms and the resulting informational environment relative to simu…

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• Merchants of Death: The Effect of Credit Supply Shocks on Hospital Outcomes

  SSRN Electronic Journal · 2023-01-01 · 3 citations

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• When Private Equity Comes to Town: The Local Economic Consequences of Rising Healthcare Costs

  SSRN Electronic Journal · 2023-01-01 · 3 citations

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Frequent coauthors

• Richard T. Thakor

  University of Minnesota

  52 shared

• Pinar Karaca‐Mandic

  University of Minnesota

  38 shared

• Xuelin Li

  32 shared

• Tadashi Hashimoto

  11 shared

• Vivian W. Fang

  Indiana University

  6 shared

• Nan Li

  Beijing Microelectronics Technology Institute

  5 shared

• Ilan Guttman

  New York University

  5 shared

• Jash Jain

  4 shared

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