Staff profile

Arzé Karam is Director of Quantitative Research in Financial Economics, and Associate Professor in the Department of Finance at Durham University. She holds a Msc in Finance from University of Toulouse 1, and a PhD in Finance from University of Paris X.Her main research interests are in Market Microstructure and span a wide range of topics including market transparency, high frequency trading, market liquidity and systemic risks. She also conducts research in Asset Pricing, Blockchain-Based Markets, Climate Finance, Machine Learning applied to Finance, and Quantum Finance. 

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Arzé's main research interests are in Market Microstructure, Asset Pricing, FinTech, Data Science, Machine learning applied to Finance, Climate Finance, and Quantum Finance.

• Market Microstructure
• Asset Pricing
• FinTech
• Climate Modelling
• Information and Financial Markets
• Experimental Economics
• Machine Learning

Journal Article

• Bogoev, D., Karam, A., & et al. (2024). Non-standard errors. Journal of Finance, 79(3), 2339-2390. https://doi.org/10.1111/jofi.13337
• Cox, C., Karam, A., & Pelster, M. (2022). Two-period duopolies with forward markets. Review of Industrial Organization, 60(1), 29-62. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11151-021-09839-6
• Karam, A. (2022). Dealers' incentives to reveal their names. Financial Review, 57(1), 27-44. https://doi.org/10.1111/fire.12229
• Karam, A. (2018). The effects of intraday news flow on Dealers' Quotations, Market Liquidity, and Volatility. International Journal of Finance and Economics, 23(4), 492-503. https://doi.org/10.1002/ijfe.1634
• Karam, A. (2017). The effects of intraday news flow on market liquidity, price volatility and trading activity. Economics Bulletin, 37(4), 2354-2363
• Bogoev, D., & Karam, A. (2017). Detection of algorithmic trading. Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 484, 168-181. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physa.2017.04.157
• Cox, C., Karam, A., & Murphy, R. (2017). Social preferences and cooperation in simple social dilemma games. Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 69, 1-3. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socec.2017.05.002

Working Paper

• Woroniuk, D., Karam, A., & Jamasb, T. European Gas Markets, Trading Hubs, and Price Formation: A Network Perspective, Cambridge Working Papers in Economics CWPE 1964 / Electricity Policy Research Group Working Paper EPRG 1922, May, Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge
• Bogoev, D., & Karam, A. Intraday Momentum Trading and Liquidity Crises