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Professor Ali Kabiri

Professor of Economics

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Professor KabiriProfessor Kabiri SFHEA is Co-director of the MSc in Money Banking and Central Banking. He studied Investment and Banking at ICMA, Reading University, the LSE and Bayes Business School, where he earned a PhD in Finance, specialising in measuring asset bubbles.

He was a Research Associate at the LSE- Financial Markets Group (FMG) from 2012-2023 and is an Honorary Lecturer at UCL in the Dept. of Clinical, Educational and Health Psychology & Visiting Fellow at the Centre for the Study of Decision-Making Uncertainty (CSDU).

He has been a Visiting Research Scholar at Columbia Business School, Princeton University, Yale SOM and Rutgers University. His areas of expertise are in credit and banking frictions, behavioural economics, Natural Language Processing and economic/financial History.

His latest research uses new techniques from NLP to analyse how human psychology impacts financial markets and the macroeconomy, on a project with UCL, Princeton and Rutgers.

Publications

Coffman, D., Kabiri, A. and Di Liberto, N. (2023).
General and periodic industrial crises. Anthem Books.

Spatareanu, M., Manole, V., Kabiri, A., and Roland, I. (2023).
Bank default risk propagation along supply chains: Evidence from the U.K.
International Review of Economics & Finance, Volume 84, Pages 813-831.

Kabiri, A., James, H., Landon‐Lane, J., Tuckett, D., and Nyman, R. (2022).
The role of sentiment in the US economy: 1920 to 1934.
The Economic History Review.

Spatareanu, M., Manole, V., and Kabiri, A. (2021).
The real effects of banks nationalization – evidence from the UK.
Applied Economics Letters, 29(7), pp. 579-583.

Demirovic, A., Kabiri, A., Tuckett, D., and Nyman, R. (2020).
A common risk factor and the correlation between equity and corporate bond returns.
Journal of Asset Management, 21(2), pp. 119-134.

Spatareanu, M., Manole, V., and Kabiri, A. (2019).
Do bank liquidity shocks hamper firms’ innovation?
International Journal of Industrial Organization, 67, p. 102520.

Spatareanu, M., Manole, V., and Kabiri, A. (2018).
Exports and bank shocks: evidence from matched firm-bank data.
Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, 47, pp. 46-56.

Spatareanu, M., Manole, V., and Kabiri, A. (2016).
Bank distress and firms’ investment during the Great Recession – evidence from Ireland.
Applied Economics Letters, 24(3), pp. 143-147.

Chambers, D. and Kabiri, A. (2016).
Keynes and Wall Street.
Business History Review, 90(2), pp. 301-328.

Kabiri, A. (2015) The Great Crash of 1929; a reconciliation of theory and evidence.
Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.

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