Amir Amel-Zadeh

Amirs research examines the economic effects of financial and non-financial reporting. He is also interested in the consequences (and interaction) of accounting and capital regulation of financial institutions.

Prior to joining Oxford Saïd, Amir held a position as University Lecturer at Judge Business School, University of Cambridge, and prior to that worked at Lehman Brothers in London. He received his PhD and MPhil in Finance from the University of Cambridge.

Amir held visiting positions at Harvard Business School, at New York University Stern School of Business, at Columbia Business School, and at the University of Bologna. Amir sat on the Board of Directors of the European Financial Management Association and on the Advisory Board of the Pension Investments Academy. He is the 2010 recipient of the Salje Medal for the best PhD in the Social Sciences, Clare Hall, University of Cambridge, and received the Judge Business School teaching award in 2011.

During his time at Cambridge, he has taught finance and accounting courses to MBA and Masters Programmes as well as on executive programmes for entrepreneurs, engineers, lawyers, finance and medical professionals. He has taught or consulted for the financial services industry in Europe, Asia and the Middle East.

Alongside his role at Saïd Business School, Amir is a Research Fellow at Green Templeton College, Oxford.

Research

Amir’s research can be broadly summarised as examining the role of information disclosure in capital markets.

He is interested in the determinants, characteristics, and economic consequences of companies' information disclosures, including financial and non-financial reporting, and the role of information intermediaries such as analysts and other third-party information producers in this process.

Within this broad spectrum his work can be divided into three interconnected lines of research:

Mandatory and voluntary disclosure under asymmetric information Reporting and accountability in banking Environmental and social accountability and sustainable investments His research examines managerial reporting choices and their economic effects, how reporting frameworks affect these choices and how information intermediaries contribute to a firm’s information environment. He is particularly interested in applying natural language processing and machine learning techniques to analyse financial and narrative disclosures and their effects on asset prices and investment allocations.

His research in banking focuses on interactions of accounting - in particular fair value accounting - with regulatory risk-based capital requirements.