Dr Tahir received his PhD in Finance from the Victoria University of Wellington and an MSc in Quantitative Finance from the Hanken School of Economics, Finland. He has several years of teaching and research experience at New Zealand Universities. Dr Tahir’s research has been published in leading A* and A-rated (ABDC) journals, including Energy Economics, British Journal of Management, Journal of Behavioral Finance, Pacific Basin Finance, Journal of Forecasting, and Economics Letters. He has presented his research at major international conferences such as the Financial Markets and Corporate Governance Conference, New Zealand Finance Colloquium, Australasian Finance and Banking Conference, Global Research Alliance for Sustainable Finance and Investment and Multinational Finance Society. Dr Tahir received numerous Best Papers awards, including the 2018 BLR Outstanding Research Award and the 2023 NZX-CGI Best Paper Award in Corporate Governance at the New Zealand Finance Colloquium. Dr Tahir also received the best paper award at the 6th Annual GRASFI Conference, Yale University (2023). He was awarded the Otago Business School Best Emerging Researcher in 2020 for his excellent research record. He is ranked in the top 10% of Authors on SSRN.com (Social Science Research Network) by all-time downloads. He has supervised two PhD students to completion and is currently supervising five PhD students. He has refereed for more than 45 different journals and has examined 20 PhD dissertations.

Phd in Finance, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand                                         

M.Sc. Quantitative Finance – Hanken School of Economics, Finland

MS Financial Economics – University of Skovde, Sweden

Quantitative Finance

Climate and Energy Finance

Financial Markets

Machine Learning in Finance

Niu, Z., Demirer, R., Suleman, M. T., & Zhang, H. (2024). Speculation, cross-market sentiment and the predictability of gold market volatility. Journal of Behavioral Finance, 25(3), 278-295.

Akram, K., Mamun, M. A., Raza, S. A., & Suleman, M. T. (2024). Global geopolitical crisis and tourism development in the USA. Current issues in tourism, 27(20), 3352-3368.

Al Mamun, M., Boubaker, S., Ghafoor, A., & Suleman, M. T. (2024). Is marriage a turning point? Evidence from cash holdings behaviour. British Journal of Management, 35(2), 775-798.

Suleman, M. T. S., Kapar, B., & Rana, F. (2024). Infectious Disease and Asymmetric Industrial Volatility. Applied Finance Letters, 13, 77-97.

Suleman, M. T., Tabash, M. I., & Sheikh, U. A. (2024). Do stock market fluctuations lead to currency deflation in the South Asian region? Evidence beyond symmetry. International Journal of Finance & Economics, 29(2), 1432-1450.

Niu, Z., Demirer, R., Suleman, M. T., Zhang, H., & Zhu, X. (2024). Do industries predict stock market volatility? Evidence from machine learning models. Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions and Money, 90, 101903.

Perera, K., Kuruppuarachchi, D., Kumarasinghe, S., & Suleman, M. T. (2023). The impact of carbon disclosure and carbon emissions intensity on firms’ idiosyncratic volatility. Energy Economics, 128, 107053.

Niu, Z., Demirer, R., Suleman, M. T., & Zhang, H. (2023). Cross‐sectional return dispersion and stock market volatility: Evidence from high‐frequency data. Journal of Forecasting, 42(6), 1309-1328.

Suleman, M. T., Sheikh, U. A., Galariotis, E. C., & Roubaud, D. (2023). The impact of bitcoin fear and greed on good and bad network connectedness: the case of the US sectoral high frequency returns. Annals of Operations Research, 1-45.

Suleman, M. T., Rehman, M. U., Sheikh, U. A., & Kang, S. H. (2023). Dynamic time-frequency connectedness between European emissions trading system and sustainability markets. Energy Economics, 123, 106726.

Cui, T., Suleman, M. T., & Zhang, H. (2022). Do the green bonds overreact to the COVID-19 pandemic?. Finance Research Letters, 49, 103095.

Suleman, M. T., & Yaghoubi, M. (2022). Infectious disease and corporate activities. Economics Letters, 212, 110302.

Yousaf, I., Suleman, M. T., & Demirer, R. (2022). Green investments: a luxury good or a financial necessity?. Energy Economics, 105, 105745.