Sasan Mansouri

Sasan Mansouri is an Assistant Professor of Digitalization and AI at the Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Groningen, and a Junior Research Affiliate at the Leibniz Institute for Economic Research Halle (IWH) since February 2023. He is also an Affiliated Researcher at the Chair of Banking and Finance, Goethe University Frankfurt. His work integrates financial data science, natural language processing, and entrepreneurial finance to study information transmission dynamics in financial markets.

• Research Focus: Financial jargon's role in market efficiency, ESG metrics in sustainable entrepreneurship, AI-driven analysis of corporate disclosures, and regulatory impacts on banking.
• Teaching: Offers courses in Master Data Analytics, Natural Language Processing, and Mergers & Acquisitions, emphasizing AI applications in economics and finance.
• Entrepreneurial Ventures: Co-founded Very Bad Report (AI financial reporting) and Essence Scholar (AI academic research platform), and previously served as AI Advisor at Dealcode AI (2021-2022).

His publications span journals like Management Science, Journal of Business Venturing, and Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, along with working papers at SSRN and IWH. Current research explores AI's role in reducing information asymmetries and policy impacts on financial markets.