Dr Amirul Ahsan

Dr Amirul Ahsan is a Lecturer in the Department of Finance in Deakin Business School. Amirul has completed his MBA and PhD from Monash University in Melbourne, Australia. He then joined Deakin as a Faculty in Finance. Prior to Deakin, Amirul held faculty and research positions in Monash University in Australia and Dhaka University in Bangladesh.

His teaching interests include corporate finance, fundamentals of finance, financial intermediation and financial markets. Amirul's research focus is on central bank independence and governance, market microstructure and Islamic finance. His research outputs were published in various peer-reviewed international journals and edited books such as Emerging Markets Review, Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions & Money and Research in International Business and Finance. 

Amirul has designed and developed two finance games:

1. First Trading - a security trading game for first-year university students. This game is a means to teach complicated finance concepts and theories by engaging students in a simulated security trading activity.
2. Chief Financial Officer (CFO) role play in Scenario Analysis - an advanced capital budgeting decision making process in a simulated real-life scenario. This game brings together the advanced capital budgeting issues such as real options and option pricing models together to build multiple scenarios. Students have to make correct investment decisions considering all those scenarios affecting the investment project.