Amanjot Singh
Dr. Amanjot Singh is an Associate Professor of Finance in the Faculty of Business at the University of New Brunswick, Saint John, where he teaches finance at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. He joined UNB in 2024 and was promoted to Associate Professor effective 1 July 2026. Previously, he was a faculty member at King's University College at the University of Western Ontario.
His research examines how claims on a firm become visible to capital markets and what happens to the cost and structure of capital once they do. The work spans private debt contracting and credit risk, shareholder and employee voice, corporate misconduct and regulatory enforcement, and the financing of Indigenous equity participation in energy and infrastructure projects.
He has published in FT-50-ranked and ABDC A* and A-rated journals, including the Review of Accounting Studies, Energy Economics, The Financial Review, the International Review of Finance, the Global Finance Journal, the Pacific-Basin Finance Journal, Applied Economics, Economic Modelling, Finance Research Letters, the China Accounting and Finance Review, the International Journal of Managerial Finance and the Journal of Portfolio Management. He has completed the Wabanaki Traditional Leadership Training and engages with Indigenous communities in New Brunswick.
Dr. Singh holds three grants from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) and is Principal Investigator on a SSHRC Insight Development Grant. He received the MBA Teaching Impact Award for 2025–2026, voted by UNB Saint John MBA students, and the Best Conference Paper Award at the Contemporary Issues in Financial Markets and Banking Conference in January 2026.
He has presented at and served on committees for conferences including the American Finance Association, Financial Management Association, Eastern Finance Association, Southern Finance Association, Asian Finance Association, Australasian Finance and Banking, Financial Markets and Corporate Governance, the New Zealand Finance Meeting and the Canadian Economics Association. He is a founding member of the Canadian Financial Economics Network.
Dr. Singh serves as Associate Editor for Vision: The Journal of Business Perspective and the American Business Review, reviews for more than twenty academic journals, and assesses grant applications for SSHRC. 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. He holds the Certified Financial Planner designation (India).
Main publications
Singh, A., & Zheng, H. (2026). Indigenous equity participation and non-market risk in infrastructure investment. Journal of Portfolio Management. Forthcoming.
Singh, A. (2026). Aggregate trade counterparty premium and excess value of diversification. International Journal of Managerial Finance, 22(4), 778-799.
Liu, L., Singh, A., & Singh, H. (2026). Refinancing of long-term debt and tendency to overinvest. American Business Review, 29(1), 28-55.
Singh, A., Deb, S. S., & Singh, H. (2026). Hedge fund activism and debt maturity structure. The Financial Review, 61(1), 327-347.
Singh, A. (2025). News about biodiversity risk and excess value of diversification. International Review of Finance, 25(4), e70042.
Singh, A., Singh, H., & Welagedara, V. (2025). Long-term institutional shareholdings and stock price informativeness of analyst target prices. China Accounting and Finance Review, 27(5), 609–634.
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, 20(5), 1269-1294.
Singh, A., Singh, H., & Welagedara, V. (2024). Aggregate uncertainty, information acquisition, and analyst stock recommendations. International Review of Finance, 24(4), 604-640.
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 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 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.
