Faculty and Research Faculty Hedieh Rashidi Ranjbar

Hedieh Rashidi Ranjbar

Assistant Professor of Finance

Hedieh Rashidi Ranjbar joined Melbourne Business School in 2023, after completing her PhD in Finance at the Ross School of Business, University of Michigan.

Her research is concentrated on empirical corporate finance, with a focus on entrepreneurial finance, private equity, venture capital, FinTech, and innovation. In her research, she investigates whether financial and technological innovations mitigate frictions in the market for early-stage financing.

Working Papers

Return-based Crowdfunding and Entrepreneurship
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4264845

From in-person to online: the new shape of the VC industry https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4198138

Regulation A+ Crowdfunding
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3834525


Pre-PhD Publication

"A path-independent method for barrier option pricing in hidden Markov models" (with Abbas Seifi), Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications (2015), Vol (440).
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S037843711500655X