Ahmed is an applied financial economist. During his PhD, the focus of his research was the interdependence of the decisions of firms and banks and its impact on the real decisions (capital structure and investment) made by the firms and banks.
His recent research interests are diverse and include, without any order of preference, (1) Transmission of Monetary Policy, (2) Banking Networks and Spillovers, (3) Capital Structure and Investment, (4) Supply Chain Networks, (5) Firm-Level Productivity and (6) Propagation of Information (News) and it's real impact on Economy.