Amrita Kundu
Assistant Professor of Operations and Information Management at McDonough School of Business, Georgetown University
bio
Amrita Kundu is an assistant professor of operations and information management. She conducts interdisciplinary empirical research to discover ways in which businesses can create social value and improve environmental sustainability. She particularly enjoys hands-on field-work driven projects where she can engage with local stakeholders.
Amrita completed her postdoc at Stanford Graduate School of Business, Ph.D. in management science and operations at London Business School and Masters in environmental systems engineering from Johns Hopkins University. Previously, she worked at the World Bank.
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https://www.amritakundu.com/Publications
Timely After-Sales Service and Technology Adoption: Evidence from the Off-Grid Solar Market in Uganda
Abstract
We construct novel text-based measures of firm-level cyber risk exposure based on quarterly earnings calls of 12,000+ firms from 85 countries over 20+ years. We categorize each cyber-related discussion into topics that capture sentiment, monetary loss, country names, etc. We document new facts on the worldwide rise of cyber risk and its industrial and geographical composition. We characterize most affected firms and show that our indices can predict future cyberattacks. Cyber risk exposure has significant direct and contagion effects on stock returns. Finally, there is a factor structure in our firm-level measures and shocks to the common factor are priced.
