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.