Farzad Saidi

Research Interests

• Banking and Financial Intermediation, Monetary Policy, Corporate Finance

Education

• Harvard Kennedy School (2009 — 2010)
• M.Sc. The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) (2006 — 2008)
• University of Chicago (2007 — 2007)

Companies

• Full Professor The University of Bonn (2021)
• Assistant Professor Boston University (2019 — 2021)
• Assistant Professor Stockholm School of Economics (2016 — 2020)
• Assistant Professor University of Cambridge (2013 — 2016)

Publications

• Health Externalities and Policy: The Role of Social Preferences (with Laura Alfaro, Ester Faia, and Nora Lamersdorf), Management Science, forthcoming.
• Regulatory Forbearance in the U.S. Insurance Industry: The Effects of Removing Capital Requirements for an Asset Class (with Bo Becker and Marcus Opp), Review of Financial Studies, forthcoming.
• Banks and Negative Interest Rates (with Florian Heider and Glenn Schepens), Annual Review of Financial Economics, November 2021, 13(1), 201-218.
• Bank Concentration and Product Market Competition (with Daniel Streitz), Review of Financial Studies, October 2021, 34(10), 4999-5035.
• How Does Firms’ Innovation Disclosure Affect Their Banking Relationships? (with Alminas Žaldokas), Management Science, February 2021, 67(2), 742-768.
• Life below Zero: Bank Lending under Negative Policy Rates (with Florian Heider and Glenn Schepens), Review of Financial Studies, October 2019, 32(10), 3728-3761 (Editor’s Choice).
• Shock Propagation and Banking Structure (with Mariassunta Giannetti), Review of Financial Studies, July 2019, 32(7), 2499-2540 (Editor’s Choice).
• Informational Inequity Aversion and Performance (with Iris Bohnet), Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, March 2019, 159(C), 181-191.
• Do Universal Banks Finance Riskier But More Productive Firms? (with Daniel Neuhann), Journal of Financial Economics, April 2018, 128(1), 66-85.
• Target Revaluation after Failed Takeover Attempts: Cash versus Stock (with Ulrike Malmendier and Marcus Opp), Journal of Financial Economics, January 2016, 119(1), 92-106.
• Jensen Prize for the best paper published in the Journal of Financial Economics in the areas of corporate finance and organizations (1st place)
• Understanding the Gender Pay Gap: What’s Competition Got to Do with It? (with Alan Manning), Industrial and Labor Relations Review, July 2010, 63(4), 681-698.