Meet the Researchers
Mehdi Beyhaghi
Education
- Ph.D., Finance, Schulich School of Business
- M.A., Economics, University of Waterloo
- M.B.A., Economics, Sharif University of Technology
- B.Sc., Engineering, Sharif University of Technology
- Financial Intermediation, Credit Markets, Banking Regulation and Supervision
- Financial Economics, Information Economics
Senior Economist
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
2023 - presentSenior Financial Economist
Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond
2021 - 2023Financial Economist
Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond
2018 - 2021Assistant Professor of Finance
University of Texas at San Antonio
2023 - 2018PhD Intern
Bank of Canada
2011
- Pre-grant Patent Disclosure and Analyst Forecast Accuracy
Mehdi Beyhaghi, Pooyan Khashabi, and Ali Mohammadi
Management Science (2023)
https://doi.org/10.1287/mnsc.2022.4420 - Third-Party Credit Guarantees and the Cost of Debt: Evidence from Corporate Loans
Mehdi Beyhaghi
Review of Finance (2022)
https://doi.org/10.1093/rof/rfab012 - International Lending: The Role of Lender's Home Country
Mehdi Beyhaghi, Rui Dai, Anthony Saunders, and John Wald
Journal of Money, Credit and Banking (2021)
https://doi.org/10.1111/jmcb.12850 - Components of credit rationing
Mehdi Beyhaghi, Fathali Firoozi, Abol Jalilvand, and Laleh Samarbakhsh
Journal of Financial Stability (2020)
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jfs.2020.100762 - Institutional investors and loan dynamics: Evidence from loan renegotiations
Mehdi Beyhaghi, Ca Nguyen, and John K. Wald
Journal of Corporate Finance (2019)
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcorpfin.2019.03.005 - The Cross-Section of Expected Returns in the Secondary Corporate Loan Market
Mehdi Beyhaghi and Sina Ehsani
Review of Asset Pricing Studies (2017)
https://doi.org/10.1093/rapstu/raw010 - Do Tighter Loan Covenants Signal Improved Future Corporate Results? The Case of Performance Pricing Covenants
Mehdi Beyhaghi, Kamphol Panyagometh, Aron A. Gottesman, and Gordon S. Roberts
Financial Management (2017)
https://doi.org/10.1111/fima.12159 - Effects of customer financial distress on supplier capital structure
Mauro Oliveira, Palani-Rajan Kadapakkam, and Mehdi Beyhaghi
Journal of Corporate Finance (2017)
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcorpfin.2016.11.009 - Why and how do banks lay off credit risk? The choice between retention, loan sales and credit default swaps
Mehdi Beyhaghi, Nadia Massoud, and Anthony Saunders
Journal of Corporate Finance (2017)
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcorpfin.2016.12.006 - Funding advantage and market discipline in the Canadian banking sector
Mehdi Beyhaghi, Chris D’Souza, and Gordon S. Roberts
Journal of Banking & Finance (2014)
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbankfin.2013.08.006
seminar
November 2023Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond
The Impact of Banking Supervision on Bank Risk-Taking and Loan Growth
conference
September 2023FDIC Bank Research Conference
Adverse Selection in Central Bank Lending - An Empirical Analysis of the Federal Reserve's Primary Credit Program
seminar
January 2023Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
Adverse Selection in Corporate Loan Markets
conference
August 2022Summer Workshop on Money, Banking, Payments, and Finance
Does the Federal Reserve's Mission as a Bank Supervisor Hinder Its Mission as the Lender of Last Resort?
Awards
- 2022
The Community Banking Research Conference research committee
John W. Ryan Award for Most Significant Contribution to Community Banking Research
- 2018
The Review of Asset Pricing Studies
Rising Scholar Award
- 2012
Financial Management Association
Best Paper in Risk Management