معرفی
Mehran Ebrahimian is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Finance at Stockholm School of Economics (SSE) and holds the Eva and Mats Qviberg Research Fellowship at the Swedish House of Finance. His academic journey includes a PhD in Finance from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, a M.Sc. in Economics, and a B.Sc. in Physics from Sharif University of Technology.
His research focuses on Household Finance, Macro-Finance, and Human Capital, examining how financing frictions affect economic inequality and real-world outcomes. Key themes include student loan policies, credit access in low-income regions, and the interplay between financial development and international trade.
Notable contributions include analyzing tuition-free college policies' unintended wealth transfers and demonstrating how credit supply shocks disproportionately impact entrepreneurship in economically disadvantaged areas. His methodology innovations, such as robustness checks in structural models, have advanced computational economics.
Current work explores preferences' role in wealth mobility and the redistributive effects of free higher education. His interdisciplinary background in physics and economics informs quantitative approaches to complex financial systems and policy design.
