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Atif R. Mian

Associate Professor of Finance, Chicago GSB

Atif R. Mian studies banking, corporate finance, and financial markets in emerging economies. His publications include "Unchecked Intermediaries: Price Manipulation in an Emerging Stock Market" written with A. Khwaja, published in the Journal of Financial Economics in 2005; "Distance Constraints: The Limits of Foreign Lending in Poor Economies" published in the Journal of Finance in 2004; and "Do lenders favor politically connected firms? Rent provision in an emerging economy,"written with A. Khwaja, and published in the Quarterly Journal of Economics in 2004.

Mian is a referee for a number of journals, such as the American Economic Review, the Quarterly Journal of Economics, and the European Economic Review. He has made research presentations all over the globe, including the London Business School, University of Toronto, WB Corporate Governance Conference (Hyderabad, India), and the New York Fed.

He was awarded the 2004 - 2005 Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation Entrepreneurship Grant, as well as a grant from the Harvard University Centre for South Asian Studies. He has twice been the recipient of the MIT Department of Economics Fellowship Award and earned a MIT Toyota Scholarship in 1995. Most recently, he was awarded an Initiative on Global Financial Markets Grant.

Mian received a bachelor's degree in mathematics and computer science in 1996 and a PhD in economics in 2001, both from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Atif R. Mian will be a panelist on the Session A/B panel, India, China and the Global Economy, at this year's Management Conference.

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