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Overview

S. Viswanathan is affiliated with Duke University in the United States and primarily works within the social sciences. Their research spans multiple subfields, with a significant focus on sociology and political science, marketing, safety research, computer science applications, and artificial intelligence.

The scientist's scholarly output encompasses various topics, including experimental behavioral economics studies, hate speech and cyberbullying detection, digital marketing and social media, misinformation and its impacts, sharing economy and platforms, fintech, crowdfunding, digital finance, and technology adoption and user behavior.

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Viswanathan include Stuart A. Cook, Mikhail Lysyakov, Anissa A. Widjaja, Eleonora Adami, and Sebastian Schäfer.

Their research is regularly published in venues such as SSRN Electronic Journal, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Academy of Management Proceedings, Information Systems Research, and Management Science.

Notable recent papers authored or coauthored by Viswanathan include:

  • Inhibition of IL-11 signalling extends mammalian healthspan and lifespan, 2024, Nature
  • A high-resolution map of human RNA translation, 2022, Molecular Cell
  • Threatened by AI: Analyzing Users' Responses to the Introduction of AI in a Crowd-Sourcing Platform, 2022, Information Systems Research
  • Creating Social Contagion Through Firm-Mediated Message Design: Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment, 2020, Management Science
  • Who Forgoes Screening in Online Markets and Why? Evidence from Airbnb, 2021, MIS Quarterly

Best Publications

  • Valuation waves and merger activity: The empirical evidence ☆

    Matthew Rhodes–Kropf;David T. Robinson;S. Viswanathan

  • Judging Borrowers by the Company They Keep: Friendship Networks and Information Asymmetry in Online Peer-to-Peer Lending

    Mingfeng Lin;Nagpurnanand R. Prabhala;Siva Viswanathan

  • Market Valuation and Merger Waves

    Matthew Rhodes-Kropf;S. Viswanathan

  • A Theory of the Interday Variations in Volume, Variance, and Trading Costs in Securities Markets

    F. Douglas Foster;S. Viswanathan

  • Variations in Trading Volume, Return Volatility, and Trading Costs: Evidence on Recent Price Formation Models

    F. Douglas Foster;S. Viswanathan

  • Stock Market Declines and Liquidity

    Allaudeen Hameed;Wenjin Kang;S. Viswanathan

  • Strategic Trading When Agents Forecast the Forecasts of Others

    F. Douglas Foster;S. Viswanathan

  • Collateral and Capital Structure

    Adriano A. Rampini;S. Viswanathan

  • Collateral, Risk Management, and the Distribution of Debt Capacity

    Adriano A. Rampini;S. Viswanathan

  • Leverage, Moral Hazard, and Liquidity

    Viral V. Acharya;S. Viswanathan

  • Home Bias in Online Investments: An Empirical Study of an Online Crowdfunding Market

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  • Valuation Waves and Merger Activity: The Empirical Evidence

    Matthew Rhodes-Kropf;Matthew Rhodes-Kropf;S. Viswanathan;David T. Robinson;David T. Robinson

  • Why Do Firms Hedge? An Asymmetric Information Model

    Douglas T. Breeden;S. Viswanathan

  • The Effect of Public Information and Competition on Trading Volume and Price Volatility

    F. Douglas Foster;S. Viswanathan

  • No Arbitrage and Arbitrage Pricing: A New Approach

    Ravi Bansal;S. Viswanathan

  • Episodic Liquidity Crises: Cooperative and Predatory Trading

    Bruce Ian Carlin;Miguel Sousa Lobo;S. Viswanathan

  • Dynamic risk management

    Adriano A. Rampini;Amir Sufi;S. Viswanathan

  • Do Inventories Matter in Dealership Markets? Evidence from the London Stock Exchange

    Oliver Hansch;Narayan Y. Naik;S. Viswanathan

  • Strategic Trading with Asymmetrically Informed Traders and Long-Lived Information

    F. Douglas Foster;S. Viswanathan

  • A New Approach to International Arbitrage Pricing

    Ravi Bansal;David A. Hsieh;S. Viswanathan

  • Public trust, the law, and financial investment

    Bruce Ian Carlin;Florin Dorobantu;S. Viswanathan

  • Stock Market Declines and Liquidity

    Wenjin Kang;Allaudeen Hameed;S. Viswanathan

  • Judging Borrowers by the Company They Keep: Friendship Networks and Information Asymmetry in Online Peer-to-Peer Lending

    Mingfeng Lin;Nagpurnanand Prabhala;Siva Viswanathan

Frequent Co-Authors

Narayan Y. Naik
Narayan Y. Naik London Business School
Viral V. Acharya
Viral V. Acharya New York University
David G. Robinson
David G. Robinson Heidelberg University
Amir Sufi
Amir Sufi University of Chicago
David A. Hsieh
David A. Hsieh Duke University

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