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College / Department

School of Business Administration

Department of Finance

Teaching areas

Islamic Finance, Corporate Finance

Research areas

Islamic Finance, Corporate Finance, Banking, Islamic Corporate Finance

Education

Ph.D., University of North Texas, TX, USA, 2004

M.B.A., St. Thomas Aquinas College, NY, USA, 1998

B.S. Business Administration, ISCAE, Morocco, 1991

Professional experience

Assistant Professor, American University of Sharjah, UAE, 2006-Current

Assistant Professor, UAE University, UAE, 2004-2006

Exxon Mobil, Morocco, 1991-1999

Memberships

Financial Management Association - Southern Finance Association - Southwestern Finance Association - Eastern Finance Association

Contact

[email protected]

+971 6 515 2329

Dr. Abdelaziz Chazi

Professor

PhD in Finance, University of North Texas, USA

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

Chazi, Abdelaziz, Narendar V. Rao, Lateef A.M.Syed. "Tapping Funds for Development: A Case for Sukuk Financing." Journal of Islamic Economics, Banking and Finance 10, no. 3 [Comment: ACCEPTANCE DATE: APRIL, 2014. ]

Chazi, Abdelaziz, Ashraf Khallaf, Yi Liu, Zaher Zantout. "Technology Transactions, Announcement Effect, and Reversal: Dissecting an Anomaly." Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance [Comment: ACCEPTANCE DATE: MARCH, 2014. ]

Chazi, Abdelaziz, Musa Darayseh. "A Financial Crisis Buffer: the Case of Islamic Banking." Academy of Taiwan Business Management Review 9, no. 1 (April, 2013): 100-108.

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 (April, 2011): 245-259.

Boubakri, Narjess, Abdelaziz Chazi, and Ashraf Khallaf. "Targets Performance in Terminated Bids: An Empirical Examination." Quarterly Journal of Finance and Accounting 49, no. 3/4 (December, 2010): 87-111. [Comment: ACCEPTANCE DATE: JULY, 2011. ]

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 (December, 2010): 321-333.

Belkhir Mohamed, and Abdelaziz Chazi. "Compensation Vega, Deregulation, and Risk-Taking: Lessons from the US Banking Industry." Journal of Business Finance and Accounting (November, 2010): 1218-1247.

Abdelaziz Chazi, P.R.S. Terra, and F. Zanella. "Theory versus Practice: Perspectives of Middle-Eastern Financial Managers." European Business Review (March, 2010): 195-221.

Abdelaziz Chazi. "Capital Structure, Competing or Completing Theories." Academy of Taiwan Business Management Review (August, 2009): 138-145.

Abdelaziz Chazi. "Is Default Risk Related to Inflation?" Journal of Accounting, Business and Management (October, 2007): 32-40.

Abdelaziz Chazi, and Niranjan Tripathy. "Which Version of the Equity Market Timing Affects Capital Structure?" Journal of Applied Finance: theory, practice, education (February, 2007): 70-81.

Conference Presentations

Chazi, Abdelaziz, Narendar V. Rao, Lateef A.M.Syed. "Tapping Funds for Development: A Case for Sukuk Financing." Paper presented at the 12th EBES Conference, Singapore, January 9-11, 2014.

Chazi, Abdelaziz, Ashraf Khallaf, Ian Liu and Zaher Zantout. "Technology Transactions, Announcement Effect, and Reversal: Dissecting an Anomaly." Paper presented at the EBES, Istanbul, Turkey, May 23-25, 2013.

Chazi, Abdelaziz, Musa Darayseh, Abed Abdallah. "A Financial Crisis Buffer: The Case of Islamic Banking." Paper presented at the 5th Annual International Conference on Mediterranean Studies, Athens, Greece, April 4-7, 2012.

Boubakri, Narjess, Abdelaziz Chazi, Khalil Al Hlilu. "Individual Investors’ Behavior in an Emerging Market: The Case of Stock Market Participants in the UAE." Paper presented at the 4th Annual Research Symposium in Business & Economics, Al Ain, UAE, April 19, 2012.

Chazi, Abdelaziz, Musa Darayseh, Abed Abdallah. "A Financial Crisis Buffer: the Case of Islamic Banking." Paper presented at the First Annual Symposium: Analytical and Empirical Research in Islamic Finance, Management, Economics and Law, Birmingham, UK, December 3-4, 2011.

Abdelaziz Chazi, Narjess Boubakri and Fernando Zanella. "Corporate Dividend Policy in an Emerging Market and Tax-Free Environment: Evidence from the UAE." Paper presented at the Society for the Study of Emerging Markets: EuroConference 2010, July, 2010.

Narjess Boubakri, Abdelaziz Chazi and Ashraf Khallaf. "Targets Performance in Terminated Bids: An Empirical Examination." Paper presented at the International Conference of Education, Research and Innovation, November, 2009.

Belkhir Mohamed, and Abdelaziz Chazi. "Compensation Vega, Deregulation, and Risk-Taking: Lessons from the US Banking Industry." Paper presented at the European Financial Management Association, June, 2009.

Belkhir Mohamed, and Abdelaziz Chazi. "Compensation Vega, Deregulation, and Risk-Taking: Lessons from the US Banking Industry." Paper presented at the Research Symposium in Finance, UAE University, November, 2008.

Abdelaziz Chazi, P. Terra, and F. Zanella. "The Practice of Corporate Finance in the Middle-East." Paper presented at the Academy of International Business, June, 2008.

Abdelaziz Chazi. "Capital Structure, Competing or Completing Theories." Paper presented at the Southwestern Finance Association, November, 2007.

Abdelaziz Chazi, and Niranjan Tripathy. "Which Version of the Equity Market Timing Affects Capital Structure?" Paper presented at the Financial Management Association, October, 2005.

Awards and Honors

American University of Sharjah Faculty Research Grant, 2010

American University of Sharjah Faculty Research Grant, 2009

Fulbright Alumni Development Grant, 2007

American University of Sharjah Seed Grant, 2006

University of North Texas (COBA) Doctoral Dissertation Award, 2005

Other creative/research

Chazi, Abdelaziz. "Challenges to Islamic Finance." In Islamic Finance, edited by Anthony Escurat,1-4. Algeria: Mazars, 2011.

Chazi, Abdelaziz. "Dividend Signaling by Financial Firms." In Technological Transformation and Competitiveness in the Middle East, edited by ,236-241. : Inderscience, 2008.