Amanjot Singh

Dr. Amanjot Singh joined the Faculty of Business at the University of New Brunswick, Saint John, in 2024, where he teaches finance courses at both undergraduate and graduate levels. Before this, he was a faculty member at King’s University College at the University of Western Ontario. Dr. Singh earned his PhD from Deakin University, Australia. His teaching and research interests span corporate finance, shareholder activism, empirical asset pricing, corporate governance, stakeholder orientation, and cybersecurity incidents.

He has actively contributed to the finance community, presenting at and serving on committees for notable conferences such as the American Finance Association (AFA), Financial Management Association (FMA), Eastern Finance Association (EFA), Southern Finance Association (SFA), Asian Finance Association, International Young Finance Scholars, Australasian Finance and Banking, Financial Markets and Corporate Governance (FMCG), New Zealand Finance Meeting, and Canadian Economics Association (CEA).

Dr. Singh has published his research in leading academic journals, including FT-50-ranked and ABDC A* and A-rated journals. He also contributed to the industrial report Benchmarking Impact: Australian Impact Investor Insights, Activity and Performance Report 2020, published by the Responsible Investment Association Australasia (RIAA).

A recipient of the SSHRC Insight Development Grant, Dr. Singh remains deeply engaged in research. He serves as Associate Editor for Vision: The Journal of Business Perspective and regularly reviews articles for top-tier academic journals. Additionally, he holds the Certified Financial PlannerCM designation (India).

Main publications

Deb, S. S., Duong, H. N., Singh, A., & Singh, H. (2024). Does hedge fund activism improve investment efficiency? Review of Accounting Studies, 29(3), 2551–2577.

Singh, A. (2024). Oil price uncertainty and corporate inventory investment. International Journal of Managerial Finance, 20(4), 919–939.

Singh, A. (2024). Oil price uncertainty and excess value of diversification. International Journal of Managerial Finance, Forthcoming.

Singh, A., Singh, H., & Welagedara, V. (2024). Aggregate uncertainty, information acquisition, and analyst stock recommendations. International Review of Finance, Forthcoming.

Singh, A. (2023). Economic growth and labor investment efficiency. International Review of Finance, 23(4), 886–902.

Singh, A. (2023). Capital age and labor investment efficiency. American Business Review, 26(2), 448–457.

Singh, A. (2023). Data breaches (hacking) and trade credit. Global Finance Journal, 57, 100858.

Singh, A. (2023). Insider stock pledging and stock price informativeness: Evidence from India. Review of Financial Economics, 41(1), 65–85.

Singh, A. (2022). Oil price uncertainty and labor investment efficiency. Energy Economics, 116, 106407.

Singh, A. (2022). Hedge fund activism and trade credit. Global Finance Journal, 53, 100723.

Singh, A., Patel, R., & Singh, H. (2022). Recalibration of priorities: Investor preference and the Russia–Ukraine conflict. Finance Research Letters, 50, 103294.

Singh, A., & Singh, H. (2022). Insiders' stock pledging disclosures and credit ratings: Evidence from India. Pacific-Basin Finance Journal, 75, 101829.

Singh, A. (2022). Does trade credit financing matter for stock returns in times of crisis? Evidence from the COVID-19 stock market crisis. Applied Economics, 54(42), 4855–4873.

Samarbakhsh, L., & Singh, A. (2022). COVID-19 and hedge fund equity ownership. International Review of Finance, 22(2), 356–364.

Singh, A. (2022). COVID-19 and ESG preferences: Corporate bonds versus equities. International Review of Finance, 22(2), 298–307.

Singh, A. (2022). Does absorptive capacity protect shareholder wealth in times of crisis? Evidence from the COVID-19 pandemic. American Business Review, 25(1), 83–91.

Singh, A. (2022). Resilience to crude oil: Australian evidence on litigation funding. Applied Finance Letters, 11, 65–81.

Singh, A., & Singh, H. (2022). Shareholder response to pension deficit: Evidence from the COVID-19 pandemic. Journal of Economics and Finance, 46(3), 566–574.

Singh, A. (2021). Investigating the dynamic relationship between litigation funding, gold, bitcoin, and the stock market: The case of Australia. Economic Modelling, 97, 45–57.

Singh, A. (2020). COVID-19 and safer investment bets. Finance Research Letters, 36, 101729.

Singh, A. (2020). Large discrete jumps, volatility, and the Indian equity market. Journal of Wealth Management, 23(1), 74–87.

Singh, A. (2018). A note on conditional variance and decaying rate: Chinese equity market. Journal of Quantitative Economics, 16(2), 595–611.

Singh, A. (2018). Bayesian dynamic interactions and predictions: US, BRIC, and frontier equity markets. Journal of Wealth Management, 20(4), 96–109.

Singh, A. (2018). Equity dependence structures amid unconventional monetary initiatives. Journal of Wealth Management, 21(1), 57–70.

Singh, A., & Kaur, P. (2017). A short note on information transmissions across US-BRIC equity markets: Evidence from volatility spillover index. Journal of Quantitative Economics, 15(1), 197–208.

Kaur, P., & Singh, A. (2015). Investigating the leverage effect and volatility in the BRIC countries’ equity markets after the US financial crisis. Journal of Wealth Management, 17(4), 93–100.