School for Business and Society
Amjad Ali
- PhD student
Profile
Thesis supervisors
Thesis Title
Essays on Sustainability Finance and Reporting
Biography
Biography
Amjad is pursuing a PhD in Accounting and Finance at the School for Business and Society, supported by the SBS Management PhD Scholarship. His research interests sit at the intersection of corporate power, misconduct, and opportunistic financial and sustainability reporting.
His doctoral research focuses on opportunistic sustainability reporting, the financial and non-financial incentives that drive it. As firms increasingly disclose ESG-related information in response to regulatory mandates and stakeholder frontier firms with significant market power and visibility. His work seeks to uncover these strategic disclosure behaviors and their implications for regulatory design, investor trust, and corporate accountability.
He also investigates the dynamics of corporate concentration and the emergence of critical third parties in the non-financial sector. The rise of superstar and frontier firms poses greater systemic risks to the global economy. Unlike the financial sector, the systemic risk emerging from the non-financial sector can not be mitigated through a bailout or capital adequacy requirements. Thus, his research focuses on the governance aspect of TBTF firms and the development of preemptive measures using the accounting information and regulatory mechanisms that could limit the cascading effects, building a more resilient market structure.
Amjad holds a Bachelor of Business Administration at Sukkur IBA University under “Sindh Talent Hunt” program and an MS degree in Management Science (Finance) at the same institution with distinction. His master's research focused on the 'Identification of Corporate Finance Decisions' using Pattern Recognition in the Accounting Information. Amjad currently serves and has served as seminar leader for accounting and finance modules at SBS and Department of Economics and Related Studies (DERS) at undergraduate and postgraduate levels.
Research
Research Topic
Sustainability Finance and Reporting
Research interests
- Opportunistic non-financial Reporting
- Corporate Misconduct
- Climate/Nature Finance
- Systemic Risk
Publications
Publications
Ali, A., & Oad Rajput, S. K. (2024). Cracking the Code: Hidden Choices and Visible Impacts Pattern Recognition in Corporate Finance. Asia-Pacific Financial Markets, 1-40.
Ali, A., Ali, A., & Rajput, S. K. O. (2024). Role of foreign banks in promoting financial inclusion: “A time series analysis of five permanent members of UN security council”. International Review of Economics & Finance, 92, 884-893.
Oad Rajput, S. K., Memon, A. A., Siyal, T. A., & Bajaj, N. K. (2023). Volatility spillovers among Islamic countries and geopolitical risk. Journal of Islamic Accounting and Business Research.
