Shehzad L. Mian is a Research Fellow at CERP. He is an Associate Professor of Finance, EMORY University. Prior to joining Emory in September 1989, Dr Shehzad taught at Krannert Graduate School of Management at Purdue University, from 1985 to 1988, and was an adjunct lecturer at the University of Rochester during the 1984-85 academic year. His current research focuses on choice of financial reporting methods, examination of corporate trade credit policy, market for corporate control, and corporate use of derivatives. His work has been published in Financial Management, Journal of Accounting and Economics, Journal of Financial Engineering, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Journal of Financial Research, Journal of Corporate Finance, Journal of Applied Corporate Finance, and Journal of Finance. He did PhD and a master’s in Corporate Finance from University of Rochester and a bachelor’s Science in Mathematical Economics, Econometrics from London School of Economics.