NBER profile: Atif R. Mian.

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Atif R. Mian is a Research Associate in the NBER's Programs on Corporate Finance and Monetary Economics. He also holds the Joe Shoong Chair in International Business at the Haas School of Business of the University of California, Berkeley.

Mian received a Ph.D. in economics from MIT in 2001. Before joining the Berkeley faculty, he taught at the University of Chicago. He also has been a visiting scholar at the Federal Reserve Banks of New York and San Francisco.

Mian's research sits at the intersection of finance and macroeconomics. Some of his early work focused on how political, informational, and organizational constraints in financial markets...