Brandeis International Business School

Mah Ebrahimi

https://mahebrahimi.github.io/
mebrahimi@brandeis.edu | +1 (781) 420 0251
Biography & CV

Fields of Expertise

Entrepreneurial Finance, Innovation, Corporate Finance, M&A, IPO, House-hold Finance.

Job Market Paper

• “DARPA’s Role in Financing Innovation: Do Program Managers Have Private Information?”

Other Research Papers

• “DARPA’s Role in Financing Innovation: A Descriptive Analysis of Funding Allocations and Outcomes”, with Aldo Musacchio and Debarshi Nandy.
• “A New Dataset on DARPA’s Role in Financing Innovation”, with Aldo Musacchio and Debarshi Nandy.
• “Does Having Student Debt Hurt Households’ Ability to Withstand Recessions?”, with Karthik Krishnan and Pinshu Wang.
• “Trading Opportunities around Morningstar Stock Rating Changes”, with Paul J. Bolster and Emery A. Trahan, The Journal of Investing, December 2022

Teaching Experiences

Adjunct Professor/Lecturer at Brandeis University

• Intermediate Macroeconomics (ECON 82b) - Summer 2021 & Summer 2022
• Financial Management (FIN-203A), MBA Course - Spring 2023

Teaching Assistant at Brandeis University

• Corporate Finance II, EMBA for Physicians (223HS-441A-1) - Spring 2023
• Venture Capital and Entrepreneurial Finance (FIN-240A) - Fall 2020 & Fall 2021 & Fall 2022
• Mergers and Acquisitions Analysis (FIN-232A) - Spring 2022
• Financial Management (FIN-203A) - Spring 2022
• International Portfolio Management (FIN-263A) - Spring 2021

References:

• Debarshi Nandy (dnandy@brandeis.edu)
• Aldo Musacchio (aldom@brandeis.edu)
• Stephen G. Cecchetti (cecchetti@brandeis.edu)

Chen Chen

https://sites.google.com/view/chenchen-econ/
chencc@brandeis.edu | +1 (857) 498 2764
Biography & CV

Fields of Expertise

Household Economics, Gender Economics, Economic History

Job Market Paper

• “Pandemic Lockdown and Household Instability in China”

Other Research Papers

• “When One Is Too Few: Fertility Restriction and Child Abduction in China”
• “Wealth Shocks and Child Maltreatment: Evidence from Stock Market Fluctuations”, with Shaoda Wang
• “The Returns to Political Loyalty: Evidence from Martyred Ministers in China’s Ming Dynasty”, with Zhenyu Gong

Teaching Experiences

Brandeis University, United States of America

• Instructor for ECON 2A A Survey of Economics Summer 2025, Summer 2024
• Teaching assistant for ECON 148B Machine Learning with Economic Applications Spring 2025
• Instructor for ECON 25A Oral Communication in Economics Practicum Fall 2023, Spring 2024
• Instructor for ECON 83A Statistics for Economic Analysis Summer 2023

References:

• Elizabeth Brainerd (ebrainer@brandeis.edu)
• Nidhiya Menon (nmenon@brandeis.edu)
• Jiwon Choi (choij@brandeis.edu)

Yuanhui Li

https://sites.google.com/brandeis.edu/yuanhuiroger-li/about
lyh2016@brandeis.edu | +1 (650) 334 9695
Biography & CV

Fields of Expertise

Empirical Asset Pricing, Bayesian Econometrics, Behavior Finance

Job Market Paper

• “Factor Timing with Economic and Financial Predictors: Stochastic Volatility, Time-Varying Parameters, and Economic Constraints”

Other Research Papers

• “Subjective Cash Flow and Discount Rate Expectation along the Business Cycle”

Teaching Experiences

Brandeis University, United States of America

• Intro to Micro Econ, Lecturer, 2022 Summer
• Machine Learning for Business & Finance, TA, 2021 Fall
• Predictive Analytics and Corporate Innovation, TA, 2022 Spring

References:

• Davide Pettenuzzo (dpettenu@brandeis.edu)
• Blake LeBaron (blebaron@brandeis.edu)
• Sida Li (blebaron@brandeis.edu)

Siyoung (Sean) Hwang

https://siyounghwang.github.io/
siyounghwang@brandeis.edu | +1 (682) 552 8706
Biography & CV

Fields of Expertise

International Trade Policy, Global Value Chains; Environment & Climate Policy, Computable General Equilibrium Models

Job Market Paper

• “How do Trump Tariffs Affect Carbon Emissions?”

Other Research Papers

• “What is the Effect of the Korea-US Free Trade Agreement on Global Value Chains?”
• “The Economics of the Net Zero Transition: Policy Scenarios and the Role of Trade and Cooperation”

Teaching Experiences

Adjunct Professor, Brandeis University

• Intro to Micro Econ, Lecturer, 2022 SummerInternational Trade Policy and Institutions [Spring 2024]
• Statistical Modeling with R for Economics and Finance [Summer 2024, Summer 2025]
• Oral Communication in Economics Practicum [Spring 2025]

Adjunct Professor, Brandeis University

• Applied International Macroeconomics [Spring 2024]

• Money & Banking [Spring 2024]

• Economic Development Strategies [Fall 2022]

• Empirical Analysis of Trade Policy [Spring 2022]

Teaching Assistant, Tufts University

• Principles Economics [Spring 2020]

• Principles Economics with Environmental Application [Fall 2019]

References:

• Peter Petri (ppetri@brandeis.edu)
• George Hall (ghall@brandeis.edu)
• Judith Dean (judydean@brandeis.edu)