Dr Pejman Abedifar

Honorary Lecturer

Researcher profile

Email

pa31@st-andrews.ac.uk

Biography

Pejman took up the role of Honorary Lecturer in 2020, having been a Lecturer in Banking and Finance with the University of St Andrews School of Management from 2014 to 2020. He received his PhD from the Université du Limoges, France. His PhD dissertation examines three different topics within the area of financial intermediation including Islamic banking, noninterest income activities and finance-growth nexus.

He has completed three masters programs: a research masters in corporate finance and banking from Tilburg University in 2009 and a professional masters in mathematical finance from Amsterdam Business School in 2008. He also received a Masters Degree in economics from Allameh Tabatabaei University, Tehran in 2000. Pejman has earned his Bachelor?s Degree in banking at Iran Banking Institute, Tehran in 1997.

Before moving to academia, Pejman had been working in the EXIM bank of Iran for more than ten years (1997-2007). He was in charge of International Finance department.

Teaching

• MN5310 Banking and Finance
• MN5311 Responsible Investment
• MN5320 Advanced Financial Econometrics
• MN5611 Alternative Investment

PhD supervision

• Yeliangzi Zheng
• Caixia Shu

Selected publications

• How informative are stock prices of Islamic banks?

  Abedifar, P., Bouslah, K. B. H., Hashem, S. Q. & Song, L., May 2020, In : Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions and Money. 66, 17 p., 101203.

  Research output: Contribution to journal ? Article

• Accounting regulations, enforcement, and stock price crash risk: global evidence in the banking industry

  Abedifar, P., Li, M., Johnson, D., Song, L. & Xing, S., Dec 2019, In : Journal of Contemporary Accounting & Economics. 15, 3, 100164.

  Research output: Contribution to journal ? Article

• Lending, the poor, and Islamic scripture: Islamic finance versus welfare Islam

  Abedifar, P., Jun 2019, In : Journal of the American Academy of Religion. 87, 2, p. 460-482 23 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal ? Article

• Non-interest income and bank lending

  Abedifar, P., Molyneux, P. & Tarazi, A., Feb 2018, In : Journal of Banking & Finance. 87, p. 411-426

  Research output: Contribution to journal ? Article

• Heterogeneous market structure and systemic risk: evidence from dual banking systems

  Abedifar, P., Giudici, P. & Hashem, S. Q., Dec 2017, In : Journal of Financial Stability. 33, p. 96-119

  Research output: Contribution to journal ? Article

• Finance-growth nexus and dual-banking systems: relative importance of Islamic banks

  Abedifar, P., Hasan, I. & Tarazi, A., Dec 2016, In : Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization. 132, Supplement, p. 198-215

  Research output: Contribution to journal ? Article

• Islamic banking and finance: recent empirical literature and directions for future research

  Abedifar, P., Ebrahim, S., Molyneux, P. & Tarazi, A., Sep 2015, In : Journal of Economic Surveys. 29, 4, p. 637-670 34 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal ? Article

• Risk in Islamic Banking

  Abedifar, P., Molyneux, P. & Tarazi, A., 2013, In : Review of Finance. p. 1-62

  Research output: Contribution to journal ? Article

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