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Dr. Vaibhav Keshav is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and an M.A. from the University of Texas at Austin. He has taught graduate and undergraduate courses in Financial Econometrics, Capstone Project, and Data Analytics, among others. Dr. Keshav’s research spans Financial Intermediation, corporate finance, and real estate finance. Before joining MIT, he was an assistant professor (visiting) at the Tepper School of Business of Carnegie Mellon University.

His academic work has been published or is under revision in the Journal of Corporate Finance, European Financial Management, and the Journal of Financial Research, among other notable journals. In his recent work, he studies how financial institutions respond to regulatory and geopolitical shocks, with a focus on investor behavior, regulatory design, and market stability.

Dr. Keshav has presented (or been invited) his research at the leading universities in the world, academic conferences, and policy institutions, including the Federal Reserve and European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA). 

His name is pronounced as Vaibhav (v uh y - bh uh v). (He appreciates your effort in learning to pronounce it—it means a lot to him.)