Mahsa Kaviani

Mahsa Kaviani is an Assistant Professor of Finance at the University of Delaware’s Alfred Lerner College of Business and Economics. Her research focuses on empirical corporate finance, the political economy of finance, and corporate governance. Her work has been published in leading academic journals, including the Journal of Financial Economics, Review of Financial Studies, and The Accounting Review, among others; and presented at major finance conferences such as the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), American Finance Association (AFA), Chicago’s Political Economy of Finance Conference, Northern Finance Association (NFA), and SFS Cavalcade.

Women-Owned Firms Are Pushed to Liquidate During Bankruptcy

New research by Hosein Maleki, Mahsa Kaviani, Simi Kedia, and Shay Pourvosoughi shows that women-owned firms are less likely to get a second chance after filing for bankruptcy and that the gap between male- and female-owned firm filings widens when courts are overloaded.

Reaching for Influence: Do Banks Use Loans to Establish Political Connections?

A new study examines whether privately-owned banks seek political influence by offering preferred loan terms to corporate borrowers with valuable political connections, showing that...

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