Negar Mohammadi-Jazi

Negar Mohammadi-Jazi

Pronounced neh-GAR (rhymes with "car")

I am a PhD candidate in Economics at the London School of Economics. My research is in corporate finance and financial intermediation.

My CV is here, and you can contact me at n.mohammadi-jazi@lse.ac.uk.

I am on the 2026-2027 job market.

Fields: Corporate Finance, Financial Intermediation

References

Alessandro Gavazza
Goh Keng Swee Chair in Economics
London School of Economics
Daniel Paravisini
Professor of Finance
London School of Economics
Tarun Ramadorai
Professor of Financial Economics
London School of Economics

Research

Job Market Paper

Asymmetric Information and Capital Regulation in SME Lending: A Structural Model of Bank and Non-Bank Competition

Joint with Felipe Netto (Bank of England).
Presentations: Rising Scholars Conference in Finance 2026 (University of Zurich), ECB Conference on Financial Stability and Macroprudential Policy 2026 (scheduled), 2026 EBA Policy Research Workshop (scheduled), 16th Workshop of the Empirical Financial Intermediation Network (scheduled).
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Banks and non-banks compete in UK unsecured SME lending, but only banks face risk-based capital requirements, and the two lender types screen borrowers differently. We study how capital regulation, lenders' screening technologies and their interaction shape this competition. Using confidential loan-level data and new hand-collected data on screening channels, we document that banks screen smaller loans online and larger loans through relationship managers, while non-banks screen all loans online. To separate screening precision from borrower selection and from the cost of capital regulation, we develop and estimate a model of lending. Our estimates show that non-banks assess risk more precisely when both lenders screen online, but banks become more precise once they switch to human screening. Capital regulation accounts for about a quarter of banks' cost of lending, and this cost depends on how precisely banks screen. In counterfactuals, if banks screened all loans online, credit would expand, but banks' default rates would rise, mainly because they would screen less precisely. Tighter capital requirements mostly push the riskiest borrowers out of credit. Where banks screen online and less precisely, they also lose some safe borrowers they misjudge as risky to non-banks.

Work in Progress

Small Firms' Access to Liquidity

Joint with Felipe Netto (Bank of England).

The Matching Adjustment and Corporate Bond Markets

Joint with Felipe Netto (Bank of England).

Teaching

Graduate Teaching Assistant, London School of Economics.

Microeconomics I (EC1A1), undergraduate. Winter terms 2023–2026.
Microeconomics II (EC2A3), undergraduate. Autumn 2024 and Autumn 2025.
Microeconomics I (EC1A3), undergraduate. Autumn 2022 and Autumn 2023.