Mahyar Kargar
Assistant Professor of Finance at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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Biography
Research Interests
- Financial Intermediation, Asset Pricing, Financial Market Liquidity, Macro Finance, and Public Finance
Educational Background
- PhD, Finance, University of California at Los Angeles, 2019
- MBA, Honors, Finance, University of California at Los Angeles, 2013
- PhD, Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California at Irvine, 2009
- M.S., Honors, Electrical Engineering, University of Southern California, 2003
- Bachelor of Science, Electrical Engineering, Sharif University of Technology, 2001
Positions Held
- Instructor of Finance, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2019-2019
- Assistant Professor of Finance, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2019 to present
- Research Assistant, National Bureau of Economic Research, 2015-2016
- Summer Intern, Research Affiliates, 2013
- Principal Scientist, Broadcom Limited, 2009-2013
Recent Publications
- Kargar, M., Lester, B., Lindsay, D., Liu, S., Weill, P., & Zuniga, D. Forthcoming. Corporate Bond Liquidity During the COVID-19 Crisis. Review of Financial Studies.
- Kargar, M., & Mann, W. Forthcoming. The incidence of student loan subsidies: Evidence from the PLUS program. Review of Financial Studies.
Presentations
- Kargar, M., & Silva, D. (2021). A Competitive Search Theory of Asset Pricing. SFS Cavalcade North America.
- Kargar, M., Schwert, M., Aiello, D., Bernstein, A., & Lewis, R. (2021). The Economic Burden of Pension Shortfalls: Evidence from House Prices. SFS Cavalcade North America.
- Kargar, M. (2021). Corporate Bond Liquidity During the COVID-19 Crisis. Midwest Finance Association.
- Kargar, M. (2020). Corporate Bond Liquidity During the COVID-19 Crisis. Conference on the Financial Consequences of the COVID-19 Pandemic, Journal of Finance and Fama-Miller Center at the University of Chicago.
- Kargar, M., Lester, B., Lindsay, D., Liu, S., Zuniga, D., & Weill, P. (2020). Corporate Bond LIquidity During the COVID-19 Crisis. Conference on financial stability and the coronavirus pandemic, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta and Georgia State University.
- Kargar, M. (2020). Corporate Bond Liquidity During the COVID-19 Crisis. Workshop on Liquidity in Fixed Income Markets, Search and Matching in Macro and Finance (SaMMF.
- Kargar, M. (2020). Inventory, Market Making, and Liquidity: Theory and Application to the Corporate Bond Market. Conference on The Impact of Post-Crisis Regulation on Financial Markets, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia.
- Kargar, M. (2020). Heterogeneous Intermediary Asset Pricing. American Finance Association Annual Meeting, AFA.
- Kargar, M. (2019). Who Pays for Underfunded Pensions? Evidence From Homeowners. Financial Research Association.
Working Papers
- Kargar, M., Silva, D., & Duarte, V. Dissecting the Aggregate Market Elasticity.
- Kargar, M., Wu, Y., & Choi, J. Investor Demand, Financial Market Power, and Capital Misallocation.
- Kargar, M., Lester, B., Weill, P., & Cohen, A. Inventory, Market Making, and Liquidity: Theory and Application to the Corporate Bond Market.
- Aiello, D., Bernstein, A., Kargar, M., Lewis, R., & Schwert, M. The Economic Burden of Pension Shortfalls: Evidence from House Prices.
- Kargar, M., Passadore, J., & Silva, D. Liquidity and Risk in OTC Markets: A Theory of Asset Pricing and Portfolio Flows.
- Kargar, M., & Dunn, B. Funding Liquidity and the Valuation of Mortgage-Backed Securities.
Honors and Awards
- Xavier Drèze Award for the Most Outstanding Ph.D. Research Paper, UCLA Anderson, 2019-2019
- UCLA Dissertation Year Fellowship, UCLA, 2017-2018
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