Amir completed his PhD at the University of Wollongong in 2011 and has a MA from the University of Sistan and Baluchistan (2006) and a BA from the University of Sistan and Baluchistan (2003). His research interests are in Efficiency and Productivity; Environmental Economics; Applied Microeconomic Modelling; and Quantitative Methods for Management.
Articles
Does the interest rate for business loans respond asymmetrically to changes in the cash rate? (with Abbas Valadkhani and Martin J. O'Brien), Faculty of Commerce - Papers (Archive) (2013)
This article examines the dynamic relationship between the Reserve Bank of Australia's (RBA's) cash rate...
Downward stickiness of interest rates in the Australian credit card market? (with Abbas Valadkhani and Sajid Anwar), Faculty of Commerce - Papers (Archive) (2013)
Analysing Productivity Changes Using the Bootstrapped Malmquist Approach: The Case of the Iranian Banking Industry (with Abbas Valadkhani and Charles Harvie), Australasian Accounting Business and Finance Journal (2012)
This study employs various bootstrapped Malmquist indices and efficiency scores to investigate the effects of...
An empirical analysis of Iran's banking performance (with Charles Harvie and Abbas Valadkhani), Faculty of Commerce - Papers (2012)
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the efficiency and productivity growth...
Is the rising cost of education uniform across all of Australia's Capital Cities? (with Abbas Valadkhani and Shima Hassan Zadeh Forughi), Faculty of Commerce - Papers (2012)
This paper compares and contrasts the aggregate cost of education in Australia with the cost...
Presentations
Measuring the banking efficiency and productivity changes using the Hicks-Moorsteen approach: the case of Iran (with Charles Harvie and Abbas Valadkhani), Faculty of Commerce - Papers (2012)
This study is the first to use a comprehensive decomposition of the Hicks–Moorsteen TFP index...
Working Papers
How to capture the full extent of price stickiness in credit card interest rates? (with Abbas Valadkhani and Sajid Anwar), Faculty of Commerce - Economics Working Papers (2012)
We present a new approach to evaluate the full extent of price stickiness in credit...
An Analysis of Productivity Changes in the Iranian Banking Industry: a Bootstrapped Malmquist Approach (with Abbas Valadkhani and Charles Harvie), Faculty of Commerce - Economics Working Papers (2010)
This study employs various bootstrapped Malmquist indices and efficiency scores to investigate the effects of...
Banks’ efficiency and productivity analysis using the Hicks-Moorsteen approach: a case study of Iran (with Abbas Valadkhani), Faculty of Commerce - Economics Working Papers (2010)
This study is the first to use the Hicks-Moorsteen TFP index developed by O’Donnell (2008,...