Ola Mahmoud
SFI Faculty Member, Assistant Professor of Quantitative Economics, University of St.Gallen
Ola Mahmoud is Assistant Professor of Quantitative Economics at the School of Economics and Political Science of the University of St.Gallen. Previously, Professor Mahmoud was a quantitative investment strategist at Pictet and a researcher at Morgan Stanley Capital International.
Expertise
Professor Mahmoud studies the microeconomic behavioral foundations and the macroeconomic empirical implications of sustainability in the financial market. In recent work, she studies the financial market and identifies the direct impact channels of sustainability that may have a positive or negative effect on reducing or increasing inequality and poverty. From a policy perspective, the main goal is to identify how corporations and countries can make sustainable changes to economies to reduce inequality and poverty.
Expertise Fields
- Financial Markets
- Information and Market Efficiency
- Portfolio Management and Asset Classes
- Behavioral Finance and Neurofinance
- Personal Finance and Household Choices
- Portfolio Management
- Corporate Finance and Governance
- Financial Risk and Risk Management
- Frontier Topics
- Operations Research and Decision Theory
- Sustainable Finance