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Education Ph.D. in finance, Stern School of Business, New York University, 2003; MBA in finance, Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, India, 1993; B. Tech in mechanical engineering, IIT, Madras, India, 1991 Research Areas Credit Risk; Corporate Finance; and Banking Current Projects “Does Shareholder Rights Affect Syndicate Structure? Evidence from a Natural Experiment,” Sandeep Dahiya and Issam Hallak “Agency Costs, Bank Specialness and Renegotiation” “How Do Banking Relationships Affect Corporate Liquidity?” with Yakov Amihud and Anthony Saunders Academic Positions Held Arizona State University: 2010-Present, Associate professor of finance; University of Michigan, Ross School of Business: 2002-2010, Assistant professor of finance Career and Recent Professional Awards; Teaching Awards The Bank One Corporation Assistant Professor of Business Administration - Ross School of Business, University of Michigan 2009-2010 School wide Research Award; LECG Best Paper Award in Corporate Finance at the 2007 European Finance Association Annual Meetings - “Why do Firms Use Private Equity to Opt Out of Public Markets?”; Journal of Financial Economics Best Paper in Capital Markets and Asset Pricing, Second (Fama/DFA) Prize, 2007 – “Does Industry-wide Distress Affect Defaulted Firms? – Evidence from Creditor Recoveries”; Fannie Mae Best Paper Award in Financial Institutions and Markets at the 2004 Financial Management Association Annual Meetings - “So What do I Get: A Bank’s View of Lending Relationships?”; Caesarea Center 5th Annual Academic Conference Best Paper Award, IDC Herzliya 2008 Meeting, Israel “The Changing Nature of Chapter 11” Representative Publications “Lending Relationships and Loan Contract Terms,” with Sandeep Dahiya, Anthony Saunders and Anand Srinivasan, Review of Financial Studies, 2011 “Why do Firms Use Private Equity to Opt Out of Public Markets?” (Lead Article) (with Amy Dittmar), Review of Financial Studies 23, 2010, pp.1771-1818. “Forecasting Default with the Merton Distance-to-Default Model,” with Tyler Shumway, Review of Financial Studies 21(3), 2008, pp.1339-1369 “Liquidity Risk of Corporate Bond Returns,” with Viral Acharya and Yakov Amihud (Forthcoming, Journal of Financial Economics)