Tasaneeya Viratyosin

PhD Student in Finance

The Wharton School
University of Pennsylvania

CV

Email: tviratyo[at]wharton.upenn.edu

Published/Forthcoming

The Unprecedented Stock Market Reaction to COVID-19
The Review of Asset Pricing Studies, 2020.
(joint with Scott Baker, Nicholas Bloom, Steven J. Davis, Kyle Kost, and Marco Sammon)
NBER version

Working Papers

I study the interaction between innovation and production networks. In particular, I show that partnerships along the production network impact R&D expenditure and, conversely, innovation plays a crucial role in the formation of supply chain partnerships. Empirically, I document that firms' R&D intensity increases with the R&D intensity of their partners, and this relationship is robust to instrumenting R&D expenditure on plausibly exogenous R&D tax credits. I introduce a novel dynamic heterogeneous firm model where price-setting firms across two sectors, linked through the production network, invest in innovation. In the model, product complementarity produces the sorting and feedback in R&D investment across supply chain partners observed in the data, and predicts that innovation shocks predominantly benefit highly innovative upstream and downstream firms. I validate these predictions using arguably unanticipated increases in market value attributed to patent issuances, and find these innovative firms experience increases to equity returns, sales, profits, R&D, capital expenditure, and employment following innovation shocks from their suppliers and customers. 

Work in Progress

For Whom the Market Moves: The Duration of Macroeconomic and Fiscal Shocks
(joint with Max Miller)