Mahsa Kaviani

Mahsa Kaviani is an assistant professor in the Department of Finance at the University of Delaware’s Alfred Lerner College of Business and Economics. Dr. Kaviani’s research interests include empirical corporate finance, political economy of finance and governance. Her papers have been published in various leading academic journals such as the Journal of Financial Economics and presented at top finance conferences such as the annual meetings of the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), American Finance Association (AFA), Chicago’s Political Economy of Finance, Northern Finance Association (NFA) and Financial Management Association (FMA).

Education

• Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Concordia University (Joint PhD program with McGill, HEC and UQAM Universities) (2010 — 2016)
• Visiting PhD Student New York University - Leonard N. Stern School of Business (2015 — 2016)
• MA Economics McGill University (2014 — 2015)

Companies

• Assistant Professor of Finance at the University of Delaware, Alfred Lerner College of Business and University of Delaware (2020)
• Assistant Professor of Finance Fox School of Business at Temple University (2016 — 2020)
• Visiting Scholar NYU Stern School of Business (2016 — 2016)

Skills

• Portfolio managemnt
• Project Management
• SAS

Other

Finance, Development Economics, Stata, Qualitative Research, Investments, Econometrics, Quantitative Analytics, Corporate Finance, Economics, Teaching, Financial Modeling, Matlab, Statistics, Data Analysis