Arash Aloosh

Arash Aloosh holds a PhD in Finance from BI Norwegian Business School and spent two years at Columbia Business School as a Visiting Scholar. He is the coordinator and instructor of Blockchain and FinTech courses at NEOMA BS. Arash's research are threefold: First, International Asset Pricing, a conventional subject covering currency risk factors, international asset management, and currency risk management. Second, CryptoCurrencies, DeFi (Decentralized Finance), and FinTech, which are of an unconventional and fast growing nature. Third, Public Health, which is highly impactful. Arash has published in Management Science (forthcoming), Lancet, and Nature among others. He has served as a cryptocurrency advisor of Consilience Ventures, and is currently a research associate at the Digital Finance Chair and an affiliate researcher at the Cardiff FinTech Research Group.

RESEARCH INTERESTS

• International Finance, Digital Currencies, Public Health, CryptoFinance, and FinTech and Innovations.

Education

• Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) BI Norwegian Business School (2010 — 2015)
• MRes Nova School of Business and Economics (2007 — 2010)
• MBA Mazandaran University of Sciences and Technology (2004 — 2006)
• BSc Iran University of Science and Technology (1998 — 2004)
• Diploma National Organization for Development of Exceptional Talents (NODET) (1994 — 1998)

PUBLICATIONS

• Currency Factors, with Geert Bekaert, Management Science, Forthcoming 2021.
  The psychology of cryptocurrency prices, with Samuel Ouzan, Finance Research Letters, 33, 101192, 2020.
• Economic sanctions threaten population health: the case of Iran, with Mehdi Aloosh and Alborz Salavati, Public Health, 169, P10-13, 2019.

Other PUBLICATIONS

• Lift sanctions now to save public health, with Mehdi Aloosh, Nature (Impact Factor: 43.070), 520, 2015.
  Iran: the health cost of a political order, with Mehdi Aloosh, The Lancet (Impact Factor: 59.102), 384, 9958, P1926-1927, 2014.