Isha Agarwal

Isha Agarwal is an Assistant Professor of Finance at the Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia. She received her Ph.D. in Economics from Cornell University. She works on issues at the intersection of macroeconomics, financial intermediation, and international finance. Here recent work explores how the changing landscape of financial intermediation has affected monetary policy transmission. Her research has been published in top finance journals including the Journal of Financial Economics and the Review of Financial Studies.

Selected Publications 

• Isha Agarwal and Matthew Baron (2024), "Inflation and Disintermediation", Journal of Financial Economics, conditionally accepted
• Isha Agarwal, Malin Hu, Raluca Roman, and Keling Zheng (2022), "Lending by Servicing: Monetary Policy Transmission through Shadow Banks", Review of Financial Studies, forthcoming  (Best Paper Award at the 2022 International Finance and Banking Society Conference)
• Isha Agarwal, David Jaume, Everardo Tellez, and Martin Tobal, "Differential Crowding out Effects of Government Bonds and Loans: Evidence from an Emerging Market Economy", Review of Finance, conditionally accepted

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