Divij Kohli दिविज कोहली

PhD. Finance Candidate at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Conferences

July 2026
📌 NBER Summer Institute – Economics of Health
The Effects of Deleting Medical Debt from Consumer Credit Reports

May 2026
📌 2026 Boulder Summer Conference on Consumer Financial Decision Making
Rates Up, Balances Up: Uneven Monetary Transmission in Consumer Credit Markets

March 2026
📌 2026 MFA Annual Meeting
The Effects of Deleting Medical Debt from Consumer Credit Reports

March 2026
📌 2026 Eastern Finance Association Meeting
House of Stolen Cards: Does Payment Security Improve Credit Outcomes for Households?

January 2026
📌 The 2026 AFA Annual Meeting
The Effects of Deleting Medical Debt from Consumer Credit Reports

May 2025
📌 Boulder Summer Conference on Consumer Financial Decision Making
House of Stolen Cards: Does Payment Security Improve Credit Outcomes for Households? – Poster Session

October 2024
📌 Financial Management Association (FMA) 2024

  • House of Stolen Cards: Does Payment Security Improve Credit Outcomes for Households?
  • The Other Half: Monetary Policy Transmission for Households without Mortgages – Early Ideas Session

Workshops

June 2026
📌 Financial Literacy Research Boot Camp, Stanford University

June 2026
📌 6th Tri-City-PhD Workshop on Empirical Research in Finance, Frankfurt School of Finance & Management

July 2025
📌 2025 Summer School on Structural Estimation in Corporate Finance

July 2024
📌 Workshop on Research Design for Causal Inference, Northwestern University



Research Update

April 2026
New Working Paper: Rates Up, Balances Up: Uneven Monetary Transmission in Consumer Credit Markets.

April 2025
New Working Paper: The Effects of Deleting Medical Debt from Consumer Credit Reports now part of the NBER Working Paper Series.


Honors & Fellowships

May 2026

  • Recipient of 2026 Gies College of Business, Richard A. Erley Fellowship for academic excellence

May 2025

  • Recipient of 2025 Jagdish N. Sheth Fellowship for academic excellence

December 2024

  • Included on the List of Instructors Rated Excellent by Their Students for FIN 221, Gies College of Business

May 2024

  • Recipient of 2026 Gies College of Business, Zwisler Fellowship for academic excellence

April 2024

  • Received the Outstanding Asian and Asian American Graduate Student Leader award from the Asian American Cultural Center, UIUC

August 2016

  • Recipient of Madras School of Economics, Course Topper Fellowship

January 2016

  • Recipient of Madras School of Economics, Course Topper Fellowship