Overview

Prior to joining University of Exeter Business School, Dr. Obaid Awan held academic positions at Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (Australia) where he also completed his PhD in Financial Economics. His research interests cover commodity price dynamics with particular emphasis on expectation formation and forecasting. Additionally, Dr. Obaid has acquired extensive experience in developing specialized academic curriculum incorporating simulated trading of diverse financial instruments.

Qualifications

PhD (RMIT University)

MSc (RMIT University)

BBIT (University of the Punjab)

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Research

Research interests

• Empirical Asset Pricing 
• Behavioral Finance
• Energy Economics  

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Teaching

Financial Markets – Financial institutions, valuation and trading of financial instruments,

Macroeconomics – Economic growth models and policy analysis.

Computational Finance – Financial programming, application of machine learning to financial use cases.

Modules

2023/24

• BEE2027 - Financial Markets and Decisions I

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