Farshid Abdi

I am an Assistant Professor of Finance at University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

My research interest is in the areas of liquidity, empirical asset pricing, and empirical market microstructure.

I earned a PhD in Finance from the University of St. Gallen in Switzerland and an MSc degree in Financial Engineering from the Swiss Finance Institute at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne. I have also been a Visiting Scholar at NYU Stern School of Business.

Education

• PhD in Finance, University of St. Gallen, Switzerland, 2018
• Visiting Scholar, Stern School of Business, New York University
• MSc in Financial Engineering, Swiss Finance Institute at EPFL, 2012
• BSc in Industrial Engineering, Sharif University, 2010