Shahram Amini, PhD

Biography at a Glance

Shahram Amini, PhD, is an assistant professor of finance at the University of Denver Daniels College of Business. His areas of research include corporate investment efficiency, behavioral finance, corporate misconduct, capital structure, payout policies, mergers and acquisitions, IPO markets, and machine learning. Shahram has taught several courses including Financial Modeling, Investments, Financial Concepts and Skills, and International Finance, for which he has received Teaching Excellence awards. See the links below for his current CV, SSRN and Google Scholar pages.

CV, SSRN, Google Scholar

https://daniels.du.edu/assets/ttps://daniels.du.edu/assets/cv-amini-shahram.pdfEducation

• PhD in Finance, Virginia Tech
• PhD in Economics, Virginia Tech
• BSc in Electrical Engineering, Sharif University of Technology

Academic Positions Held

Assistant Professor of Finance, University of Denver

Working papers

• Is Corporate Investment More Efficient in Bad Times, with Andrew MacKinlay, Brian R. Rountree, and James Weston
• The Geography of Initial Public Offerings, with Andrew MacKinlay, Johan Sulaeman and Chishen Wei
• Product Market Competition and Corporate Investment: An Empirical Analysis, with Raman Kumar and Dilip Shome
• Payout, Investment, and Growth: Are They Related?, with John Easterwood, Raman Kumar, and Yutong Xie

PUBLISHED PAPERS

• Can Machines Learn Capital Structure Dynamics?, with Ryan Elmore, Özde Öztekin, and Jack Strauss, Journal of Corporate Finance, 2021, 70(1): 1–22
• Are Earnings Predictable? Evidence from Equity Issues and Buyback Announcements, with Vijay Singal, Journal of Economics and Finance, 2020, 44(3): 528–562
• A Review of the BMS Package for R with Focus on Jointness, with Christopher F. Parmeter, Econometrics, 2020, 8(1): 1–20
• Decomposing the Conditional Variance of Cross-Country Output, with Michele Battisti, and Chirstopher F. Parmeter, Economic Modelling, 2017, 61(1): 376–387
• Comparison of Model Averaging Techniques, with Chirstopher F. Parmeter, Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2012, 27(5): 870–876
• Fixed vs Random: The Hausman Test Four Decades Later, with Michael S. Delgado, Daniel J. Henderson, and Chirstopher F. Parmeter, Advances in Econometrics, 2012, 29(1): 479–513
• Bayesian Model Averaging in R, with Chirstopher F. Parmeter, Journal of Economic & Social Measurement, 2011, 36(4): 253–287

Awards and Honors

• Course Release and Summer Research Grant (2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023)
• Pamplin College of Business Teaching Excellence Award
• The Meir I. Schneller Teaching Excellence Award
• Pamplin College of Business Doctoral Summer Grant
• American Finance Association Travel Grant

Hobbies/Interests

• Traveling
• Skiing
• Cultural Events
• Outdoor Activities
• Music Festivals
• Playing and Watching Sports
• Cooking