Dan Amiram

Dan Amiram (Hebrew: דן עמירם; born: 6 July 1977) is the Vice Dean and the Capital markets and Financial Institutions Chaired Professor of Business at the Coller School of Management at Tel Aviv University. He also serves as the head of the Hogeg Blockchain Research Institute and the head of the Fintech concentration in the MBA program. He served and currently serves on public companies’ board of directors in the United States and Israel.[1]

Dan Amiram
Born (1977-07-06) 6 July 1977
NationalityIsraeli
Alma materBen-Gurion University, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Scientific career
FieldsAccounting
Business
Financial economics
InstitutionsColumbia University, Tel Aviv University
ThesisDebt Contracts and Loss Given Default (2011)

Early life and education

Dan Amiram was born in Be’er-Sheva, Israel. He studied at "Makif Gimel" high school in the city. He served in the Israeli Defense Forces and is a major (Res.). After his military service he received his B.A. in Economics and Accounting (2003), and M.A. in Economics (2007) from Ben-Gurion University,[2] Israel. During his M.A. studies Amiram worked for PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) – Kesselman & Kesselman as an Auditor[2] and later as part of the finance division in Adama (formerly Makhteshim–Agan Industries LTD).[2] His Ph.D. degree was received in 2011 from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Amiram authored the thesis Debt Contracts and Loss Given Default, under the supervision of Prof. Wayne R. Landsman and Prof. Robert M. Bushman.[3]

Career

In 2011, Amiram moved to New York and joined Columbia University Graduate School of Business as Assistant Professor of Accounting, Business Law and Taxation. He became the Philip H. Geier Associate Professor of Business at that school in 2016. During his stay in New York, Amiram started to serve on the board of directors, including as chairman of the audit committee of various public and private corporations.[2] In 2017 Amiram was a visiting professor at Tel aviv University, and a year later he joined the Coller School of Management at Tel Aviv University as a full professor. In 2020 Amiram was appointed to be TAU Capital markets and Financial Institutions Chaired Professor of Business.[4] Amiram also serves as the head of the Hogeg Blockchain Research Institute and the head of the Fintech concentration in the MBA program at the university.[5]

Research

Professor Amiram’s research focuses on the effects and consequences of frictions created by information asymmetry, taxation and business law on debt and equity markets around the world. He has conducted research in the areas of debt contracting, executive compensation, banking, international taxation, foreign investments, financial distress and financial reporting fraud and misconduct that was published in finance and accounting journals.[1] Professor Amiram’s research provides evidence that information, taxation and business law play a significant role in investors' decision-making processes and shape the design of contracts and the financial system.[1]

Professional experience

Upon his return to Israel (2017), Amiram joined the Board of Directors of Mercantile Bank and also serves as the chairman of the Board’s Risk Management committee.[6]

He is also the chairman of the United Nations Internal Controls Advisory Committee.[1] Amiram served and currently serves on the board of directors, including as chairman of the audit committee, of various public and private corporations and financial institutions, and is asked by governmental organizations, corporations, financial institutions to advise on issues in the areas of his expertise, including risk management, fraud prevention and recovery, capital markets trading strategies, financing, valuation and others.[1] Amiram serves as a board member in the Israeli Association for Appraisers.[7]

In 2019, Amiram was approached to serve as the Deputy Governor of the Bank of Israel.[8]

Honors and awards

Amiram received awards for excellence in research and teaching, including the 2017 AAA/Deloitte Foundation Wildman Medal Award for “research published during the five calendar years preceding the year of the award, which is judged to have made the most significant contribution to the advancement of the practice of public accountancy”;[9] the Coller School of Management at Tel-Aviv University Award for Teaching Excellence (2019)[2] and the Columbia Business School Award for Teaching Excellence (2013).[10]

Media

Amiram’s research and opinions were featured in Wall Street Journal,[11] New York Times,[12] Forbes[13] and other media organizations.

Selected articles
  • Amiram, D., Bauer, A. and Frank, M.M., 2019 Forthcoming. “Tax Avoidance at Public Corporations Driven by Shareholder Taxes: Evidence from Changes in Dividend Tax Policy”. The Accounting Review
  • Amiram, D., Kalay, A., Kalay, A. and Ozel, N.B., 2018. Information Asymmetry and the Bond Coupon Choice. The Accounting Review. 93(2), pp. 37–59.
  • Amiram, D., Bozanic, Z., Cox, J.D., Dupont, Q., Karpoff, J.M. and Sloan, R.G., 2018. Financial Reporting Fraud and Other Forms of Misconduct: A Multidisciplinary Review of the Literature. Review of Accounting Studies, 23(2), pp. 732–783.
  • Amiram, D., Beaver, W.H., Landsman, W.R. and Zhao, J., 2017. The effects of credit default swap trading on information asymmetry in syndicated loans. Journal of Financial Economics, 126(2), pp. 364–382.
  • Amiram, D., Kalay, A. and Sadka, G., 2016. Industry characteristics, risk premiums, and debt pricing. The Accounting Review, 92(1), pp. 1–27.
  • Amiram, D., Owens, E. and Rozenbaum, O., 2016. Do information releases increase or decrease information asymmetry? New evidence from analyst forecast announcements. Journal of Accounting and Economics, 62(1), pp. 121–138.
  • Amiram, D. and Frank, M.M., 2015. Foreign portfolio investment and shareholder dividend taxes. The Accounting Review, 91(3), pp. 717–740.
  • Amiram, D., Bozanic, Z. and Rouen, E., 2015. Financial statement errors: Evidence from the distributional properties of financial statement numbers. Review of Accounting Studies, 20(4), pp. 1540–1593.
  • Galil, K., Shapir, O.M., Amiram, D. and Ben-Zion, U., 2014. The determinants of CDS spreads. Journal of Banking & Finance, 41, pp. 271–282.

Personal life

Amiram is married to Dr. Miriam. They have a son and a daughter and live in Be’er Sheva.

References
  1. Prof. Dan Amiram, Tel Aviv University, 2018
  2. Dan Amiram – CV (PDF), Tel Aviv University, 2018
  3. Debt Contracts and Loss Given Default, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2011
  4. Chairs (in Hebrew), Coller School of Management - Tel Aviv University, 2020
  5. TAU Forges Into Blockchain Research, The Jerusalem Post, 2018
  6. The Directors – Mercantile Discount Bank LTD (in Hebrew), D&B Israel, 2019
  7. Directors (in Hebrew), Israeli Association for Appraisers, 2019
  8. After a Year in Duty, Amir Yaron is Looking for a Deputy Governor (in Hebrew), Globes, 2020
  9. Press Releases for the 2017 AAA Award Winners, AAA, 2017
  10. Faculty Members Recognized for Core Course Teaching, Columbia University, 11 October 2013
  11. Accountants Increasingly Use Data Analysis to Catch Fraud, Wall Street Journal, 5 December 2014
  12. Wells Fargo Fined $185 Million for Fraudulently Opening Accounts, New York Times, 8 September 2016
  13. The Simple Mathematical Law That Financial Fraudsters Can't Beat, Forbes, 30 May 2014
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