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Sarang Shah
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lawyer + politics phd candidate @ UC Berkeley, soon Columbia Law School

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past: physicist, tech writer, & journalist
taoist living in San Francisco
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Sarang Shah @sarangshah.com · Jul 22
Pleased to share our new paper now out in Perspectives on Politics! Happy to discuss and looking forward to hearing thoughts and suggestions for further research.
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New working paper showing that Citizens United led to an increased per capita propensity to incorporate corporations in general and LLCs in particular
Regression table showing a significant treatment effect of Citizens United on the per person propensity to incorporate any corporation given state and year fixed effects and state-specific time trends, for the years 2006-2015 and for 2007-2014 Regression table showing a significant treatment effect of Citizens United on the per person propensity to incorporate an LLC given state and year fixed effects and state-specific time trends, for the years 2006-2015 and for 2007-2014
July 28, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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Pleased to share our new paper now out in Perspectives on Politics! Happy to discuss and looking forward to hearing thoughts and suggestions for further research.
July 22, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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I finally have a proper arxiv account! Check out this thesis I wrote on the moduli space of the SU(2) singular monopole, showing it to be isometric to a solution of Einstein's equations.
arxiv.org/abs/2507.13424
Moduli Space of SU(2) Singular Monopole
The $SU(2)$ monopole with a Dirac singularity was constructed in Durcan (2007) and Cherkis and Durcan (2007). We study its moduli space by identifying the tangent direction to the moduli space. The ta...
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July 21, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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I have a new working paper up at SSRN. In this paper, I examine the Robinson Crusoe toy models of consumption and exchange over time to demonstrate an inductive method of economic modeling using signals and Lagrangian and Hamiltonian formulations.
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
<p>A Dynamic, Signals-Based Reinterpretation of Microeconomic Theory</p>
Economics has long been a science of static equilibria, in which time is a second-order rather than first-order concern. Without time, economic modelers may neg
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July 17, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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Did Citizens United increase the propensity to form corporations, and LLCs in particular, to conceal one's identity when spending money in politics? Using a diff-in-diff design, I find the answer is "yes, it did!". See working paper (now on SSRN!) below.
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
Limited Liability, Full Anonymity: LLCs as Dark Money Vessels
Did Citizens United increase the propensity to incorporate, especially easy-to-form limited liability companies, to conceal the identities of those seeking to i
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July 13, 2025 at 6:26 PM