Amir Amel-Zadeh

University of Oxford - Said Business School

Associate Professor

Park End Street

Oxford, OX1 1HP

Great Britain

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1.

Why and How Investors Use ESG Information: Evidence from a Global Survey

Financial Analysts Journal, 2018, Volume 74 Issue 3, pp. 87-103.
Number of pages: 41 Posted: 02 Mar 2017 Last Revised: 06 Feb 2020
Amir Amel-Zadeh and George Serafeim
University of Oxford - Said Business School and Harvard Business School
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ESG, Sustainability, Investment Performance, Nonfinancial, Disclosure

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The Impairment of Purchased Goodwill: Effects on Market Value

Number of pages: 40 Posted: 19 Sep 2006 Last Revised: 25 May 2012
Kevin Li, Amir Amel-Zadeh and Geoff Meeks
University of Cambridge - Judge Business School, University of Oxford - Said Business School and University of Cambridge - Judge Business School
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Goodwill, impairment, amortisation, value relevance, information content

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Bank Failure, Mark-to-Market and the Financial Crisis

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Bank Failure, Mark-to-Market and the Financial Crisis

Number of pages: 47 Posted: 27 Oct 2009 Last Revised: 28 Nov 2011
Amir Amel-Zadeh and Geoff Meeks
University of Oxford - Said Business School and University of Cambridge - Judge Business School
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financial crisis, credit crunch, fair value accounting, mark-to-market, Basel 2, capital requirements, bank failure

Bank Failure, Mark‐To‐Market and the Financial Crisis

Abacus, Vol. 49, Issue 3, pp. 308-339, 2013
Number of pages: 32 Posted: 30 Sep 2013
Amir Amel-Zadeh and Geoff Meeks
University of Oxford - Said Business School and University of Cambridge - Judge Business School
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Financial crisis, Credit crunch, Fair value accounting, Mark‐to‐market, Basel 2, Capital requirements, Bank failure

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Machine Learning-Based Financial Statement Analysis

Number of pages: 69 Posted: 27 Jan 2020 Last Revised: 03 Dec 2020
Amir Amel-Zadeh, Jan-Peter Calliess, Daniel Kaiser and Stephen Roberts
University of Oxford - Said Business School, Oxford-Man Institute of Quantitative Finance, University of Oxford - Oxford-Man Institute of Quantitative Finance and University of Oxford - Oxford-Man Institute of Quantitative Finance
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financial statement analysis, fundamental value, machine learning, earnings announcement, accounting-based anomalies, prediction

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The Return of the Size Anomaly: Evidence from the German Stock Market

University of Cambridge, Judge Business School Working Paper No. 23/2006
Number of pages: 70 Posted: 16 Jan 2007 Last Revised: 05 Jul 2009
Amir Amel-Zadeh
University of Oxford - Said Business School
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Size-effect, capital market anomaly, CAPM, efficient markets, momentum

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Operating Performance Improvements after Corporate Takeovers: Fact or Fallacy?

Revised version forthcoming in Accounting for M&A: Uses and Abuses of Accounting in Monitoring and Promoting Merger, Routledge Studies in Accounting , Routledge, 2020.
Number of pages: 87 Posted: 05 Jul 2009 Last Revised: 24 Apr 2020
Amir Amel-Zadeh
University of Oxford - Said Business School
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Operating performance, mergers & acquisitions, takeover, post-merger performance

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Forecasts of Earnings by Takeover Bidders

Revised version forthcoming in Accounting for M&A: Uses and Abuses of Accounting in Monitoring and Promoting Merger, Routledge Studies in Accounting , Routledge, 2020.
Number of pages: 66 Posted: 30 Jul 2008 Last Revised: 24 Apr 2020
Amir Amel-Zadeh, Owain Evans and Geoff Meeks
University of Oxford - Said Business School, affiliation not provided to SSRN and University of Cambridge - Judge Business School
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merger, acquisition, management earnings forecasts, disclosure

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Social Responsibility in Capital Markets: A Review and Framework of Theory and Empirical Evidence

Number of pages: 67 Posted: 25 Sep 2015 Last Revised: 23 Feb 2018
Amir Amel-Zadeh
University of Oxford - Said Business School
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Corporate social responsibility; CSR; socially responsible investing; SRI; shareholder value; instrumental stakeholder theory; ESG investing

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The Contribution of Bank Regulation and Fair Value Accounting to Procyclical Leverage

Review of Accounting Studies, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 56 Posted: 29 Jul 2013 Last Revised: 08 Mar 2017
Amir Amel-Zadeh, Mary E. Barth and Wayne R. Landsman
University of Oxford - Said Business School, Stanford University - Graduate School of Business and University of North Carolina Kenan-Flagler Business School
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Fair value accounting, procyclicality, leverage, risk-based capital regulation, financial institutions, commercial banks

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Do Sustainability Ratings Matter? Evidence from Private Wealth Investment Flows

Number of pages: 72 Posted: 11 May 2020 Last Revised: 23 Mar 2022
Amir Amel-Zadeh, Rik Lustermans and Mary Pieterse-Bloem
University of Oxford - Said Business School, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, School of Business and Economics and Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR) - Erasmus School of Economics (ESE)
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ESG ratings, sustainable investing, retail investors, private wealth, asset allocation, investment flows

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NLP for SDGs: Measuring Corporate Alignment with the Sustainable Development Goals

Columbia Business School Research Paper
Number of pages: 36 Posted: 08 Jul 2021
Amir Amel-Zadeh, Mike Chen, George Mussalli and Michael Weinberg
University of Oxford - Said Business School, PanAgora Asset Management, Inc., PanAgora Asset Management and Columbia University - Columbia Business School
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Sustainable Development Goals (SDG), ESG, Natural Language Processing (NLP), Machine Learning

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Stewardship and Value Relevance in Accounting for the Depletion of Purchased Goodwill

Revised version forthcoming in Accounting for M&A: Uses and Abuses of Accounting in Monitoring and Promoting Merger, Routledge Studies in Accounting , Routledge, 2020.
Number of pages: 51 Posted: 06 Aug 2013 Last Revised: 24 Apr 2020
Amir Amel-Zadeh, Jonathan Faasse, Kevin Li and Geoff Meeks
University of Oxford - Said Business School, University of Cambridge - Judge Business School, University of Cambridge - Judge Business School and University of Cambridge - Judge Business School
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standard-setting; M&A; reliability; value-relevance; stewardship; goodwill

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The Information Content of 10-K Narratives: Comparing MD&A and Footnotes Disclosures

Number of pages: 45 Posted: 12 Jul 2016 Last Revised: 01 Dec 2016
Amir Amel-Zadeh and Jonathan Faasse
University of Oxford - Said Business School and University of Cambridge - Judge Business School
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10-K Filing, MD&A, Footnotes, Disclosure, Textual Analysis

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The Economic Consequences of Financial Restatements: Evidence from the Market for Corporate Control

Accounting Review, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 51 Posted: 04 Sep 2012 Last Revised: 19 Jun 2014
Amir Amel-Zadeh and Yuan Zhang
University of Oxford - Said Business School and University of Texas at Dallas
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Financial Restatements; Market for Corporate Control; Mergers and Acquisitions; Information Risk; Corporate Governance

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Bidder Earnings Forecasts in Mergers and Acquisitions

Journal of Corporate Finance, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 54 Posted: 10 Jan 2013 Last Revised: 13 Jun 2019
Amir Amel-Zadeh and Geoff Meeks
University of Oxford - Said Business School and University of Cambridge - Judge Business School
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management earnings forecasts, mergers, acquisitions, voluntary disclosures, merger forecasts, earnings per share, accretion, dilution

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Leverage Changes and Growth Options in Mergers and Acquisitions

Midwest Finance Association 2013 Annual Meeting Paper
Number of pages: 51 Posted: 27 Jul 2012 Last Revised: 01 Apr 2015
Elettra Agliardi, Amir Amel-Zadeh and Nicos Koussis
University of Bologna - Department of Economics, University of Oxford - Said Business School and Frederick University
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Capital Structure, Mergers and Acquisitions, Growth Options, Trade-off Model

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The Financial Materiality of Climate Change: Evidence from a Global Survey

Number of pages: 36 Posted: 21 Dec 2018 Last Revised: 08 Jul 2021
Amir Amel-Zadeh
University of Oxford - Said Business School
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Climate Change, Climate Disclosures, ESG, Field Study, Institutional Investors, Materiality

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Mavericks, Universal, and Common Owners - The Largest Shareholders of U.S. Public Firms

Number of pages: 48 Posted: 13 Apr 2022 Last Revised: 16 Aug 2022
Amir Amel-Zadeh, Fiona Kasperk, Martin C. Schmalz and Martin C. Schmalz
University of Oxford - Said Business School, University of Oxford - Said Business School and CEPRUniversity of Oxford - Finance
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universal ownership, common ownership, institutional ownership, blockholders, insiders, antitrust, governance

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Are All Insider Sales Created Equal? First Evidence from Supplementary Disclosures in SEC Filings

Saïd Business School WP 2016-29
Number of pages: 58 Posted: 30 Nov 2016 Last Revised: 27 Mar 2019
Amir Amel-Zadeh, Jonathan Faasse and Juliane Lotz
University of Oxford - Said Business School, University of Cambridge - Judge Business School and University of Mannheim - Accounting and Taxation
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Insider sales; Form 4 filings; voluntary disclosure; supplementary footnotes; information content; litigation risk

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Empirical Goodwill Research: Insights, Issues, and Implications for Standard Setting and Future Research

TRR 266 Accounting for Transparency Working Paper Series No. 61, Forthcoming in European Accounting Review
Number of pages: 81 Posted: 07 Sep 2021
Amir Amel-Zadeh, Martin Glaum and Thorsten Sellhorn
University of Oxford - Said Business School, WHU - Otto Beisheim School of Management and Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet (LMU) Munich
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goodwill, business combinations, decision usefulness, accounting choice, validity

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Creating Firm Disclosures

Number of pages: 51 Posted: 28 Aug 2018 Last Revised: 22 Mar 2019
Amir Amel-Zadeh, Alexandra Scherf and Eugene F. Soltes
University of Oxford - Said Business School, Harvard Business School and Harvard University - Business School (HBS)
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Do U.S. Analysts Improve the Local Information Environment of Cross-Listed Stocks?

Saïd Business School WP 2016-28
Number of pages: 57 Posted: 27 Jun 2016 Last Revised: 21 Oct 2018
Amir Amel-Zadeh and Antonio Carlo Francesco Della Bina
University of Oxford - Said Business School and University of Bologna - Department of Management
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International cross-listing; analyst recommendations; location advantage; GAAP differences; IFRS; bonding hypothesis

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Historical Perspectives on Accounting for M&A

Number of pages: 41 Posted: 15 Feb 2016
Amir Amel-Zadeh, Geoff Meeks and Jaqueline Meeks
University of Oxford - Said Business School, University of Cambridge - Judge Business School and University of Cambridge - Centre for Development Studies
Downloads 169 (244,952)
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M&A accounting, intangibles, M&A financing, creative accounting

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Fair Value Accounting in Distressed Markets

Number of pages: 33 Posted: 08 Jan 2018
Amir Amel-Zadeh and Geoff Meeks
University of Oxford - Said Business School and University of Cambridge - Judge Business School
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Fair Value Accounting, Market Distress, Liquidity Crisis, Financial Crises, Bank Regulation

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Measuring Fair Value When Markets Malfunction: Evidence from the Financial Crisis

Number of pages: 26 Posted: 30 Mar 2017
Amir Amel-Zadeh and Geoff Meeks
University of Oxford - Said Business School and University of Cambridge - Judge Business School
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Fair Value, Financial Crisis, Relevance, Reliability, Market Failure, Pension Liabilities

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Price Discovery and Accounting Under Stress

Number of pages: 52 Posted: 19 Feb 2016 Last Revised: 15 Jul 2016
Amir Amel-Zadeh and Dai Li
University of Oxford - Said Business School and University of Cambridge - Judge Business School
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Liquidity risk, mark-to-market, fair value accounting, general equilibrium, financial institutions, bankcuptcy

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Auditor Reporting to Bank Regulators: Effective Regulation or Regulatory Overreach?

Journal of Accounting & Economics (JAE), Vol. 72, No. 2/3, 2021, Stanford University Graduate School of Business Research Paper
Number of pages: 29 Posted: 18 Aug 2021
Amir Amel-Zadeh and Mary E. Barth
University of Oxford - Said Business School and Stanford University - Graduate School of Business
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Bank risk, bank regulation, auditor reporting, risk-weighted assets