Mahnaz (Mila) Paydar
Mahnaz Paydar, PhD
Assistant Professor of Finance
Roger Williams University
Research Interests
FinTech AI in finance Social media analytics Behavioral finance
Published Papers
Do AI Outages Disrupt Financial Markets? Evidence from OpenAI
Mahnaz Paydarzarnaghi and David Rakowski
Finance Research Letters, 2026
Strategic Bot Activity in Financial Social Media
Mahnaz Paydarzarnaghi and David Rakowski
Finance Research Letters, 2026
Inferring Accounting Conservatism from Textual Analysis of 10-K Forms
Mahnaz Paydarzarnaghi, J. David Diltz, and Salil K. Sarkar
Managerial Finance, 2026
Working Papers
Social Media Bots and Investor Attention
Mahnaz Paydarzarnaghi and David Rakowski
Journal of Financial Markets, Under Review
Social Media Credibility and Financial Market Activity
Mahnaz Paydarzarnaghi, David Rakowski, and Mahmut Yasar
International Review of Financial Analysis, Under Review
A Topic Modeling Approach to Tracking the Evolution of Research on SEC 10-K Filings
Mahnaz Paydarzarnaghi and Sima Jannati
International Review of Financial Analysis, Under Review