Maha Rehman
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Maha Rehman
@maharehman.bsky.social
I build and test models of how production networks and economies adapt under risk and uncertainty | Applied Economics PhD @Cornell | Formerly @DukeEcon

maharehman.github.io
In between self imposed deadlines, it helps to look up — even briefly — and take in the horizon.

Missed AFE for another year in a row, but the calendar’s already marked for next.

In photo: McGraw Tower from Olin Library, Cornell Campus, Taken yesterday.
September 20, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Disasters reshape more than assets—they reshape firm–state relations.

My new VoxDev Blog shows how firms in Pakistan’s 2005 earthquake adapted not only to physical damage but also to the then weak state credibility, creating inefficiencies I term adaptive misallocation.

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September 1, 2025 at 4:21 PM
VoxDev Blog on my recent paper: Adaptive misallocation when firms expecting little government aid over-invest in survival at the cost of long-run productivity. Evidence from the 2005 earthquake shows a new class of vulnerable firms: fragile intermediaries.

Links: maharehman.github.io/research/
September 1, 2025 at 7:28 AM
Eid mubarak!
March 31, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Winter in Ithaca is majestic - notice nature's detailing in the grand icicles - but with spring around the corner, I almost miss the stillness and the comforting cold.
March 25, 2025 at 1:51 PM
My new paper, now in print, examines how the 2005 Pakistan earthquake triggered asymmetric firm-level over-adaptation in response to policy uncertainty. (1/n)

Link: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

A thread follows:
March 24, 2025 at 10:04 PM
I am so excited for this extension to my current research agenda: How do firms in emerging economies, in this case Pakistan, react, respond and adapt in the aftermath of a natural disasters and climate change.

#climatesky
July 2, 2024 at 9:35 AM
Fall in Ithaca!
October 9, 2023 at 4:51 PM
And when I am not working, you will find me active outdoors. I like photography, writing, hiking and water sports!
October 4, 2023 at 12:53 AM