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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

B.S. Business Administration, ISCAE, Morocco, 1991
M.B.A., St. Thomas Aquinas College, NY, USA, 1998
Ph.D., University of North Texas, TX, USA, 2004

Professional experience

Associate Professor of Finance, American University of Sharjah, Sharjah, UAE 09, 2011 - present
Interim Director, Islamic Finance and Banking Program, American University of Sharjah, Sharjah, UAE 01, 2012 - 06, 2013
Assistant Professor of Finance, American University of Sharjah, Sharjah, UAE 09, 2006 - 08, 2011
Assistant Professor of Finance, UAE University, AlAin, UAE 09, 2004 - 08, 2006
Teaching Fellow, University of North Texas, Denton, TX, USA 09, 2000 - 08, 2004

Memberships

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

Contact

achazi@aus.edu
+971 6 515 2329

Dr. Abdelaziz Chazi

Associate 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

Azad, A.S.M.S., Saad Azmat, Abdelaziz Chazi and Amirul Ahsan. "Can Islamic Banks have their own benchmark?" Emerging Markets Review [Comment: ACCEPTANCE DATE: FEBRUARY, 2018. ] 02, 2018
Azad, A.S.M. Sohel, Abdelaziz Chazi, Peter Cooper and Amirul Ahsan. "What Determines the Japanese Corporate Credit Spread? A New Evidence." Research in International Business and Finance [Comment: ACCEPTANCE DATE: APRIL, 2017. ] 04, 2017
Ariff, Mohamed, Abdelaziz Chazi, Meysam Safari, Alireza Zarei. "Significant Difference in the Yields of Sukuk Bonds vs. Conventional Bonds." Journal of Emerging Market Finance [Comment: ACCEPTANCE DATE: APRIL, 2016. ] 04, 2016
Al-Hilu, Khalil, A.S.M. Sohel Azad, Abdelaziz Chazi, Ashraf Khallaf. "Investors’ Behavior in an Emerging, Tax Free Market." Emerging Markets Finance and Trade [Comment: ACCEPTANCE DATE: APRIL, 2016. ] 04, 2016
Darayseh, Musa, Abdelaziz Chazi. "Accounting Specifics and works Environment, Determinants of Accountants’ Job performance." Corporate Ownership and Control [Comment: ACCEPTANCE DATE: MARCH, 2015. ] 03, 2015
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.
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.

Conference Presentations

Chazi, Abdelaziz, Ali Mirzaei and Zaher Zantout. "Islamic Banking, Financial Constraints, and Industry Growth: International Evidence." Paper presented at the 2016 Paris Financial Management Conference, Paris, France, December 12-14, 2016.
Azad, A.S.M. Sohel, Saad Azmat, Abdelaziz Chazi and Amirul Ahsan. "Nature of IIBR-LIBOR Relationship and the Determinants of "Islamic Premium"." Paper presented at the 7th Global Islamic Marketing Conference, Casablanca, Morocco, May 4-6, 2016.
Azad, A.S.M. Sohel, Saad Azmat, Abdelaziz Chazi and Amirul Ahsan. "Sailing with the Non-Conventional Stocks When There is no Place to Hide." Paper presented at the 19th EBES Conference, Istanbul, Turkey, May 26-28, 2016.
A.S.M. Sohel Azad, Peter Cooper, Abdelaziz Chazi. "What Determines the US Corporate Credit Spread." Paper presented at the 16th EBES Conference, Istanbul, Turkey, May 27-29, 2015.
Chazi, Abdelaziz, Ashraf Khallaf. "Corporate Governance and Bank Operating Performance in Islamic and Conventional Banks: Evidence from the GCC." Paper presented at the 16th Malaysian Finance Association Conference 2014, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, June 4-6, 2014
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.
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.
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.

Awards and Honors

American University of Sharjah Faculty Research Grant - Travel March 6, 2018
Best Paper Award (Eighth Foundations of Islamic Finance Conference (FIFC 2016) August 25, 2016
School of Business Administration Summer Research Grant April 20, 2014
American University of Sharjah Faculty Research Grant May 1, 2012
American University of Sharjah Faculty Research Grant May 1, 2010

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.

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