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Assistant Professor of Finance
University of Texas at Arlington
I am an Assistant Professor of Finance at the College of Business at the University of Texas at Arlington. Before joining UTA, I served as an Assistant Professor of Finance at the University of Missouri- Columbia.
I hold a Bachelor of Science in Industrial Engineering and a Master of Science in Financial Engineering from the Amirkabir University of Technology (Tehran Polytechnic). I hold a Ph.D. in Finance from the University of Miami.
My primary areas of research are behavioral finance and empirical asset pricing, focusing on the behavioral determinants of financial decision-making. Below, you may find a list of my publications and current working papers. For more information about each paper, please click on its title.



Curriculum Vitae - August 2023
614 Department of Finance and Real Estate
College of Business
University of Texas at Arlington
Arlington, TX, 76019




"Results!? Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results! I know several thousand things that won’t work." Thomas Edison
Published Papers
[1] Running a Mutual Fund: Performance and Trading Behavior of Runner Managers
with Arash Dayani
Journal of Empirical Finance, 69, 2022
[2] Transient Emotions, Perceptions of Well-being, and Mutual Fund Flows
with William Bazley and Arash Dayani
Finance Research Letters, 41, 2021
[3] Big Fish in a Small Pond: Locally-Dominant Firms and the Business Cycle
with George Korniotis and Alok Kumar
Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 180, 2020
Working Papers
Contemporary Accounting Research - Revise and Resubmit
[2] In-Group Bias in Financial Markets
with Alok Kumar, Alexandra Niessen-Ruenzi, and Justin Wolfers
Management Science - Revise and Resubmit
[3] The Up Side of Being Down: Depression and Crowdsourced Forecasts
with Sarah Khalaf and Du Nguyen
Review of Accounting Studies - Revise and Resubmit
[4] Grit, Preferences, and Investor Behavior
with William Bazley and George Korniotis
Journal of Empirical Finance - Revise and Resubmit
Image: Harvard Business Review
[6] The Influence of Emotion on Households' Borrowing
with William Bazley
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