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College / Department

School of Business Administration

Department of Finance

Teaching areas

Islamic Finance, Corporate Finance, Investments, International Finance

Research areas

Islamic Finance, Corporate Finance, Banking, Islamic Corporate Finance

Education

PhD, Finance, University of North Texas, United States, 2004

MBA, Management, St. Thomas Aquinas College, United States, 1998

BS, Marketing, ISCAE, Morocco, 1991

Professional experience

Professor, Finance, American University of Sharjah, 2020 - Present

Associate Professor Of Finance, American University of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates, 2011 - 2020

Assistant Professor Of Finance, American University of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates, 2006 - 2011

Assistant Professor Of Finance, UAE University, United Arab Emirates, 2004 - 2006

Teaching Fellow, University of north Texas, TX, United States, 2000 - 2004

Assistant Sales Manager, AkzoNobel, Morocco, 1999 - 2000

Sales Executive, ExxonMobil, Morocco, 1991 - 1999

Contact

[email protected]

+971 6 515 2329

Dr. Abdelaziz Chazi

Professor

PhD, University of North Texas, United States

Abdelaziz Chazi has a background in management and marketing. He has won several international grants and awards including the prestigious Fulbright full scholarship. Dr. Chazi has several publications in the area of finance, and serves on the editorial board and as a reviewer for a number of academic journals. His past industry experience includes eight years with ExxonMobil Corporation while his current teaching and consulting interests are in the area of Islamic finance and corporate finance.

Publications

Abdelaziz Chazi, Kimberly Gleason, Deborah Smith And Zaher Zantout. Aiming to raise the business school’s research productivity and gain international recognition? Stylized facts to consider

Asm Sohel Azad, Abdelaziz Chazi And Anis Samet. The price response to Dow Jones World Islamic index additions and deletions

Abdulrazak Alenazi, Abdelaziz Chazi, Eid M Alotaibi And Kimberly Gleason. Cleanliness is next to godliness: can money laundering be sharia-compliant?, Journal Of Financial Crime, 27 March 2025

Abdelaziz Chazi, Ali Mirzaei And Zaher Zantout. Are Islamic banks really resilient to crises: new evidence from the COVID-19 pandemic, International Journal Of Islamic And Middle Eastern Finance And Management, 29 August 2024

Abdulrazak Alenazi, Abdelaziz Chazi, Eid Alotaibi And Kimberly Gleason. Cleanliness is next to godliness: can money laundering be sharia-compliant?, Journal Of Financial Crime, 3 December 2024

A. Azad, Abdelaziz Chazi, Ashraf Khallaf And Zaher Zantout. On the state of financial research: Is it in a silo?, Accounting & Finance, June 2024

Abdelaziz Chazi, Anis Samet And A.s.m. Azad. Volatility and correlation of Islamic and conventional indices during crises, Global Finance Journal, February 2023

Abdelaziz Chazi, Ali Mirzaei And Zaher Zantout. Does the size of Islamic banking matter for industry growth: International Evidence, Applied Economics, 2020

Saad Azmat, A.s.m. Azad, Hamza Ghaffar, Aziz Hayat And Abdelaziz Chazi. Conventional vs Islamic banking and macroeconomic risk: Impact on asset price bubbles, Pacific-basin Finance Journal, June 2020

Hamid Baghestani, Abdelaziz Chazi And Ashraf Khallaf. A directional analysis of oil prices and real exchange rates in BRIC countries, Research In International Business And Finance, December 2019

Abdelaziz Chazi, Ashraf Khallaf And Zaher Zantout. Corporate Governance And Bank Performance: Islamic Versus Non-Islamic Banks In GCC Countries, The Journal Of Developing Areas, 2018

Abdelaziz Chazi, Alexandra Theodossiou And Zaher Zantout. Corporate payout-form: Investors’ preference and catering theory, Managerial Finance, 2018

Musa Darayseh And Abdelaziz Chazi. Bank Specifics, Economics Environment, And Agency Theory: Determinants Of Banking Performance In GCC, The Journal Of Developing Areas, 11 December 2018

A.s.m.s. Azad, Saad Azmat, Abdelaziz Chazi And Amirul Ahsan. Sailing with the non-conventional stocks when there is no place to hide, Journal Of International Financial Markets, Institutions And Money, November 2018

A.s.m.s. Azad, Saad Azmat, Abdelaziz Chazi And Amirul Ahsan. Can Islamic banks have their own benchmark?, Emerging Markets Review, June 2018

Abdelaziz Chazi, Ashraf Khallaf And Zaher Zantout. Corporate Governance and Bank Performance: Islamic versus Non-Islamic Banks in GCC Countries, The Journal Of Developing Areas, April (2nd Quarter/Spring) 2018

Khalil Al-hilu, Sohel Azad, Abdelaziz Chazi And Ashraf Khallaf. Investors’ Behavior in an Emerging, Tax-Free Market, Emerging Markets Finance And Trade, 2017

A.s.m. Azad, Abdelaziz Chazi, Peter Cooper And Amirul Ahsan. What determines the Japanese corporate credit spread? A new evidence, Research In International Business And Finance, October (4th Quarter/Autumn) 2017

M. Ariff, Abdelaziz Chazi, M. Safari And A. Zarei. Significant Difference in the Yields of Sukuk Bonds versus Conventional Bonds, Journal Of Emerging Market Finance, 1 August 2017

Musa Darayseh And Abdelaziz Chazi. Accounting Specifics and works Environment, Determinants of Accountants’ Job performance, Corporate Ownership And Control Journal, 1 September 2015

Abdelaziz Chazi, Narendar Rao And Lateef Syed. Tapping funds for development: A case for sukuk financing, Journal Of Islamic Economics, Banking And Finance, 2014

Abdelaziz Chazi, Ashraf Khallaf, Yi Liu And Zaher Zantout. Technology transactions, announcement effect, and reversal: Dissecting an anomaly, Quarterly Review Of Economics And Finance, 1 January (1st Quarter/Winter) 2014

Abdelaziz Chazi And Musa Darayseh. A Financial Crisis Buffer: The Case of Islamic Banking, Academy Of Taiwan Business Management Review, 2013

Abdelaziz Chazi, Narjess Boubakri And Fernando Zanella. Corporate dividend policy in practice: Evidence from an emerging market with a tax-free environment, Pacific Basin Finance Journal, 1 April (2nd Quarter/Spring) 2011

Mohamed Belkhir And Abdelaziz Chazi. Compensation Vega, Deregulation, and Risk‐Taking: Lessons from the US Banking Industry, Journal Of Business Finance & Accounting, November 2010

Abdelaziz Chazi And Lateef Syed. Risk exposure during the global financial crisis: the case of Islamic banks, International Journal Of Islamic And Middle Eastern Finance And Management, 23 November 2010

Narjess Boubakri, Abdelaziz Chazi And Ashraf Khallaf. Targets Performance in Terminated Bids: An Empirical Examination, Quarterly Journal Of Finance And Accounting, 2010

Abdelaziz Chazi, Paulo Terra And Fernando Zanella. Theory versus practice: perspectives of Middle Eastern financial managers, European Business Review, 9 March 2010

Abdelaziz Chazi. Capital Structure, Competing or Completing Theories, Academy Of Taiwan Business Management Review, 2009

Abdelaziz Chazi. Is Default Risk Related To Inflation?, Journal Of Accounting, Business \& Management, 2007

Abdelaziz Chazi And Niranjan Tripathy. Which version of equity market timing affects capital structure?, Journal Of Applied Finance, 2007

Conference Presentations

Are Islamic Banks really Resilient to Crises: New Evidence from the COVID-19 Pandemic, International Conference On Studies In Education And Social Sciences (icses), October 2023

Is the Finance Discipline in a Research Silo?, Sibr 2023 Conference On Interdisciplinary Business And Economics Research, June 2023

Volatility and Correlation of Islamic and Conventional Indices during Crises, 12th Foundation Of Islamic Finance Conference (fifc) 2022, October 2022

Islamic Banking and Industry Growth: International Evidence, Academic And Business Collaboration Across Borders Conference, April 2019

Does Relative Quantity of Islamic Finance matter for Industry Growth, 27th Ebes Conference, January 2019

Grants and sponsorships

Grant, FRG22, 1 June 2022

Grant, Faculty Research Grant 2020 (FRG20), 1 June 2020 - 31 May 2021

Grant, American University of Sharjah Faculty Research Grant 2019, 1 June 2019 - 31 May 2020

Awards and Honors

Fulbright Alumni Development Grant, Fulbright, 1 April 2019

Best Paper Award (Eighth Foundations of Islamic Finance Conference (FIFC 2016), 25 August 2016

University of North Texas (COBA) Doctoral Dissertation Award, 1 September 2004

Fulbright Full Scholarship, 1 September 2000