arzeckaram@gmail.com; arze.karam@durham.ac.uk
I am an Associate Professor in Finance at the department of Finance at Durham University Business School (Durham, England). |Work Webpage|
I am the Director of Quantitative Research in Financial Economics (QRFE) since October 2022. |QRFE Webpage| |QRFE Annual Events|
I am an external examiner for Bsc Analytics Programme at Bayes Business School since October 2024.
I completed my PhD in Finance at University of Paris X, France. I earned Master's degree in Finance from University of Toulouse 1, France.
My research interests: Empirical Market Microstructure, Empirical Asset Pricing, Blockchain-Based Markets, Data Science, Machine Learning, Quantum Finance, Climate Finance, and Experimental Economics. |Recent Research| |Publications| |Blogs|
NEWS:
Grant success: Co- Lead £502,267.88 part of EPSRC (UKRI/NERC) Sustainable Industries, start date Aug 2025. |GBC Press Release|
My PhD student Dimitar Bogoev has successfully defended his viva on 4th of June 2025: Alfred Lehar (external) and Spyros Galanis (internal). PhD funded by NINE DTP.
One-week research visit - March 2025 to Harvard University - Department of Economics.
One-month research visit - December 2024 - January 2025 to Georgia State University - Department of Finance