Ahmed Usman

Research Interests:

I am an applied financial economist. My PhD research investigated the firm-bank linkages and its impact on real decisions made by firms and banks. My current research interests are diverse and include, without any order of preference (1) Transmission of Monetary Policy, (2) Banking Networks and Spillovers, (3) Capital Structure and Investment Decisions by Financial and Non-Financial Firms, (4) Supply Chain Networks, (5) Firm-Level Productivity and (6) News Propagation and it's impact on real decisions made by Economic Agents. 

Work Experience:

Jan 2022 to date: Assistant Professor in Finance at the School of Economics, Finance and Accounting, Coventry University, United Kingdom.

Mar 2020 to date: Lecturer in Finance at the School of Economics, Finance and Accounting, Coventry University, United Kingdom. 

Sep 19 - Feb 20: Teaching Associate, School of Economics, University of Nottingham, United Kingdom.

Dec 18 - Jul 19: Lecturer in Economics, Department of Economics, University of Essex, United Kingdom.

Oct 18 - Jul 19: Research Associate, Decision Maker Panel (DMP); a collaboration between the Bank of England, University of Nottingham (UK) and Stanford University (USA). I was working as an Academic Visitor on the DMP, with the Bank of England.

Jun 18 - Mar 19: Research Assistant at Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London School of Economics (LSE), United Kingdom (ESRC Project on Brexit and FDI of UK Firms).

May 17 - Dec 17: Research Assistant at the School of Economics, University of Nottingham, United Kingdom (for ESRC Research Grant ES/R0018041/1). 

Sep 14 - Sep 18: PhD Economics, University of Nottingham, United Kingdom (ESRC +3 Scholarship holder).


Contact Details:

You can contact me at: ad4884@coventry.ac.uk

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