Dr Ahmad Maaitah

Dr Ahmad Maaitah

Assistant Professor of Finance and FinTech

About

Assistant Professor of Finance and FinTech at Southampton Business School, University of Southampton. My research applies quantitative methods to financial markets, with a focus on cryptocurrency dynamics, volatility modelling, and financial connectedness. I work at the frontier of FinTech and empirical finance, developing econometric models that bridge traditional financial systems with emerging digital asset markets.

Research Focus

Financial EconometricsCryptocurrency MarketsVolatility ModellingLong-Memory ProcessesCointegrationSpillover AnalysisFinTechRisk Propagation

Research Groups

Centre for Digital FinanceCentre for Empirical Research in Finance and Banking

Research Interests

Forecasting in Financial Markets

Long-memory and cointegration approaches to forecasting asset prices and volatility in traditional and digital financial markets.

Volatility Modelling and Connectedness

Spillover and connectedness analysis across cryptocurrency markets, energy markets, and traditional financial systems.

Risk Propagation in Financial Systems

Studying how risk propagates across interconnected financial systems using network and econometric methods.

Current Projects

Systemic Risk in Cryptocurrency Markets

2024

Investigating how systemic risk propagates across major cryptocurrency markets using high-frequency data.

Collaborators: International collaborators from EU and US institutions