Dr. Nabendu Paul is an Assistant Professor in the area of Finance, Accounting and Control at Indian Institute of Management Amritsar. He has completed his PhD from the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore under the guidance of Prof. Jayadev M, Prof. Chetan Subramanian and Prof. Abhinav Anand. His research interest primarily lies in Corporate Finance, Policy Research, Banking, Corporate Governance and Econometrics. Specifically, his doctoral works involves how financially constrained and unconstrained firms are different from each other in terms of their financing behaviour. He has received the Best Paper awards during 2017 and 2019 at the Doctoral Colloquium the ManagementDepartment of IISc (COSMAR) held at IISc Bangalore; and another Best Paper Award during 2018 from VGSOM, IIT Kharagpur. Dr. Nabendu Paul is a B.Tech (Electrical Engineering) from the National Institute of Technology Kurukshetra, an MBA (Gold Medalist) from the National Institute of Technology Calicut and a PGDMM (Gold Medalist) from the Indian Institute of Materials Management Mumbai. He has worked as an Engineer and Deputy Manager in the materials management department of the Engine Division at Hindustan Aeronautics Limited Bangalore for five years and also worked as Manager Purchase in UHP Technologies Private Limited (a Project Management Company in the semiconductor space) after his MBA for nearly two years before pursuing his PhD.