Welcome
Ph.D. Candidate in Financial Economics

M. R. Hoque

Department of Economics & Finance

I study how information becomes prices and discipline in corporate and credit markets: who knows what, who acts on it, and which institutions filter it, using large-scale event data and, increasingly, large language models as measurement instruments.

Empirical Banking Corporate Finance ML & LLMs in Finance
New Orleans, LA mrezoan1@uno.edu +1 (954) 469-7485
M. R. Hoque
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Published works
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Papers under review & working
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Conference presentations
4.9/5
Peak teaching evaluation

News & Updates

Jul 2026
Revise & Resubmit at the Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance for "Hidden Duration Losses and Bank Crash Risk: Evidence from the 2022 UK Gilt Crisis."
2026
Job market paper "Attention Rises, Recommendations Fall" accepted for presentation at the FMA 2026 Annual Meeting.
2026
"Information Conflict and CEO Insider" accepted for presentation at the SFA 2026 Annual Meeting.
2026
New submissions under review: "The Price of Disagreement" (Finance Research Letters) and "Consensus without Revision" with Imtiaz Sifat (Journal of Business Finance & Accounting). See all papers →
2026
Provisional patent application in process for BankPulse, an AI-driven bank-health intelligence platform. Learn more →
Fall 2026
Teaching Principles of Macroeconomics (undergraduate, face-to-face) at LSU New Orleans.
Summer 2026
Instructor of record for Investments (undergraduate). Course evaluation 4.6/5.0.
Mar 2026
Presented at the SWFA 65th Annual Meeting and the SWDSI 2026 Annual Conference.

Research Areas

Banking & Financial Stability

Hidden interest-rate losses, deposit fragility, and bank crash risk. How regulatory disclosures reveal, and accounting conventions conceal, the build-up of risk inside banks.

Information & Corporate Finance

Analysts, insiders, and disclosure: how attention and opinion move equity and credit markets, and which institutions filter information before it becomes prices and lending decisions.

AI, ML & LLMs in Finance

Large language models as benchmarks for managerial decisions, controlled evaluation of reinforcement learning in finance, and machine-learning measurement of financial risk.

Featured Work

Job Market Paper

Attention Rises, Recommendations Fall

Firms receiving government subsidies see rising analyst attention while recommendations fall. Accepted for presentation at the FMA 2026 Annual Meeting.

Patent Pending

BankPulse

An AI-driven bank-health intelligence platform that turns public regulatory filings into forward-looking risk analytics. Provisional patent application in process.

R&R at QREF

Hidden Duration Losses and Bank Crash Risk

Evidence from the 2022 UK gilt crisis on how unrecognized duration losses feed bank crash risk. Revise & resubmit at the Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance.

Education

Ph.D. in Financial Economics
Louisiana State University of New Orleans
Expected 2029
M.S. in Computer Science (STEM)
Louisiana State University of New Orleans
In progress
M.S. in Finance
Louisiana State University of New Orleans
2026
M.Sc. in Applied Economics (STEM)
Texas Tech University
2024
B.Sc. & M.Sc. in Economics
International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM)
2014 / 2017

Honors & Awards

🏆 1st Prize, USDA-AAEA Data Visualization Challenge
AAEA Annual Conference
2023 · National competition
Graduate Student Assistantship
Louisiana State University of New Orleans
2024 to Present
Distinguished Graduate Student Assistantship
Texas Tech University
2022