His research interests centre on risk management for non-financial corporations, the use of derivatives by firms, the impact of derivatives on firms’ value and risk, hedging methods, corporate risk taking incentives, measuring exchange rate risk, capital structure, credit ratings, access to finance, corporate bond markets and credit market conditions. Amrit is currently involved in a research project examining the link between the use of derivatives and default probabilities, the cost of debt, cost of equity and firm value for a sample of EU firms. He is also investigating the role of credit ratings in facilitating access to capital market debt and the process of debt funding disintermediation for a large sample of European, Asian, Latin American and North American firms.