Siddharth Vij is an assistant professor of finance in the Terry College of Business at the University of Georgia. His research interests are in financial intermediation and regulation. Topics of recent projects include failed bank acquisitions, zombie lending, and the revolving door between government and industry. Vij currently teaches corporate finance to undergraduate students. He has a Ph.D. in Finance from the New York University Stern School of Business. He received an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore and a bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from the National Institute of Technology Karnataka.