Ramin Baghai

Ramin Baghai is an Associate Professor of Finance at the Stockholm School of Economics. He holds a Ph.D. in Finance from the London Business School.

Ramin's research mainly focuses on corporate finance. His latest work studies, for example, how takeovers affect the mental health of employees; how credit ratings are used in delegated management of fixed income assets to limit risk taking; and how the structure of financial intermediaries’ liabilities affects their asset holdings.

He has published in the Journal of Finance, the Review of Financial Studies, and the Journal of Law and Economics.

Academic Appointments

• 05/2017 – Associate Professor of Finance (with tenure), Stockholm School of Economics (SSE)
• 07/2017 – Research Fellow, Swedish House of Finance (SHoF)
• 11/2017 – Research Affiliate, Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR)
• 04/2019 – Research Member, European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI)
• 01/2021 – Director, Sustainable Finance Initiative, MISUM (SSE)
• 05/2016 – Member, Labor and Finance Group

Past

• 2016 – 2020 Program Director, Ph.D. Program in Finance, SSE
• 2012 – 2017 Research Associate, Swedish House of Finance (SHoF)
• 2011 – 2017 Assistant Professor of Finance, Stockholm School of Economics
• 2011 – 2012 Research Fellow, The Institute for Financial Research (SIFR)
• 2004 – 2005 Research and Teaching Assistant, Vienna University of Economics and Business

Education

• London Business School, Ph.D. in Finance, 2011
• Harvard University, Dept. of Economics, Visiting Fellow, 2009
• London Business School, M.Res. in Finance, 2008
• London School of Economics and Political Science, M.Res. in Economics, 2006
• Center for Central European Financial Markets (now Vienna Graduate School of Finance),
• Postgraduate Diploma in Finance, 2005
• University of Wisconsin at Madison, Dept. of Economics, Visiting student, 2002
• Vienna University of Economics and Business, Mag. (M.Sc. equivalent), Business Economics, 2002

Research Fields

Corporate Finance, Labor and Finance, Credit Markets