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• Dr. Mohammad Azeem khan has earned his Ph.D. degree from the Economic Sciences Department, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur. Before joining IIT Kanpur, he received a Bachelor of Arts Honours in Economics and a Master of Arts in Economics from Aligarh Muslim University. He also qualified for the UGC Junior Research Fellowship in 2015. His primary research interest lies in banking, monetary economics, and applied econometrics. His Ph.D. thesis focuses on Indian banks’ risk-taking behaviour and its determinants from various perspectives. His research work has been published in various reputed peer-reviewed national and international journals like Finance Research Letters, Journal of Economic Studies, International Journal of Emerging Markets, and Singapore Economic Review, among others. His papers have been accepted for presentation at some prestigious national and international conferences like India Finance Conference, Annual Conference on Economic Growth and Development (ISI Delhi), the Annual Meeting of the Allied Social Science Association (American Economic Association), International Finance and Banking Society Conference (IFABS 2019, Medellin), International Young Finance Scholars’ Conference (Peking University HSBC Business School, Oxford Campus), and Scottish Economic Society Annual Conference, among others. Further, he has been a reviewer for some good journals like Finance Research Letters, Applied Economics Letters incorporating Applied Financial Economics Letters, Cogent Economics and Finance, and Journal of Economic Studies. He takes great interest in teaching and working on topics in applied econometrics like time series and advanced panel data methods.