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School of Business Administration

Department of Finance

Teaching areas

International Finance; Corporate Finance; Investment; Portfolio Management; Risk Management

Research areas

International Finance; Corporate Finance; Corporate Governance; Cost of Capital; Risk Management

Education

Bachelor 2001 Finance HEC-Tunisia Tunis Tunisia

MS 2003 Finance HEC-Tunisia Tunis Tunisia

PhD 2009 Finance HEC-Montreal Quebec Canada

Professional experience

Associate Professor of Finance 09, 2015 - present

Assistant Professor of Finance, American University of Sharjah, UAE 08, 2009 - 08, 2015

Assistant Professor of Finance, Abu Dhabi University, Abu Dhabi, UAE 08, 2009 - 08, 2011

Memberships

Financial Management Association, Midwest Finance Association, Global Association of Risk Professionals (GARP), French Finance Association (AFFI)

Contact

[email protected]

+971 6 515 2316

Dr. Anis Samet

Associate Professor

PhD in Finance, HEC-Montreal, Canada

Before joining AUS, Anis Samet taught at Abu Dhabi University and worked as risk management advisor with one of the largest institutional investors in Canada and has published in leading financial journals, such as the Journal of Banking and Finance. His research interests include international finance, corporate finance, corporate governance, financial risk management, financial markets, Islamic finance and financial econometrics.

Publications

Mohsen Saad, Mohamed Belkhir, Anis samet. "Stock Extreme Illiquidity and the Cost of Capital." Journal of Banking and Finance (September, 2018): [Comment: ACCEPTANCE DATE: JANUARY, 2018. ] 01, 2018

Anis Samet, Narjess Boubakri, Sabri Boubaker. "Does Public–Private Status Affect Bank Risk Taking? Worldwide Evidence." Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions and Money 53 (January, 2018): 287-306. [Comment: ACCEPTANCE DATE: DECEMBER, 2017. ] 12, 2017

Mohsen Saad, Anis Samet. "Liquidity and the implied cost of equity capital." Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions and Money 51 (December, 2017): 15-38. [Comment: ACCEPTANCE DATE: SEPTEMBER, 2017. ] 09, 2017

Narjess Boubakri, Ali Mirzaei, Anis Samet. "National Culture and Bank Performance: Evidence from the Recent Financial Crisis." Journal of Financial Stability, no. 29 (June, 2017): 39-59. [Comment: ACCEPTANCE DATE: MARCH, 2017. ] 03, 2017

Mohsen Saad, Anis Samet. "Pricing, Dynamics, and Determinants of Illiquidity Risks: International Evidence." Emerging Markets Review (March, 2015): [Comment: ACCEPTANCE DATE: JANUARY, 2015. ]

Anis Samet, Lamia Obay. "Call Feature and Corporate Bond Yield Spreads." Journal of Multinational Financial Management (July, 2014): 1-20. [Comment: ACCEPTANCE DATE: JULY, 2014. ]

Jean-Claude Cosset, Charles Martineau, Anis Samet. "Do Political Institutions Affect the Choice of the U.S. Cross-Listing Venue." Journal of Multinational Financial Management (July, 2014): 22-48. [Comment: ACCEPTANCE DATE: JUNE, 2014. ]

Boubakri, Narjess, Jean-Claude Cosset. "International Cross-Listings and Subsequent Security-Market Choices: Evidence from ADRs." Financial Review (US) [Comment: ACCEPTANCE DATE: JUNE, 2012. FORTHCOMING]

Osamah Al-Khazali, Hooi Hooi Lean, and Anis Samet. "Do Islamic Stock Indexes Outperform Conventional Stock Indexes? A Stochastic Dominance Approach." Pacific-Basin Finance Journal [Comment: ACCEPTANCE DATE: SEPTEMBER, 2013. ]

Boubakri, Narjess, Sadok El Ghoul, Omrane Guedhami, Anis Samet,. "The Effects of Analyst Forecast Properties on the Cost of Debt: International Evidence." Journal of Financial Research [Comment: ACCEPTANCE DATE: JULY, 2015. FORTHCOMING]

Conference Presentations

Mohsen Saad, Mohamed Belkhir, Anis samet. "Stock Extreme Illiquidity and the Cost of Capital." Paper presented at the ? Financial Management Association, Lisbon, 2017, June 22-24, 2017. 06, 2017

Anis Samet, Narjess Boubakri, Sabri Boubaker. "Does Public?Private Status Affect Bank Risk Taking? Worldwide Evidence." Paper presented at the Financial Management Association, European Conference, Maastricht, Netherlands, June 10-13, 2014.

Anis Samet, Lamia Obay. "Call Feature and Corporate Bond Yield Spreads." Paper presented at the 3rd Research Symposium in Business and Research, Abu Dhabi, UAE, February 2011, February, 2011.

Boubakri, Narjess, Jean-Claude Cosset, and Anis Samet. "International Cross-Listings and Subsequent Market-Security Choices: Evidence from ADRs." Paper presented at the 3rd Research Symposium in Business and Research, Abu Dhabi, UAE, February 2011, February, 2011.

Boubakri, Narjess, Jean-Claude Cosset, and Anis Samet. "International Cross-Listings and Subsequent Market-Security Choices: Evidence from ADRs." Paper presented at the Northern Finance Association, Winnipeg, Canada, September 2010, September, 2010.

Boubakri, Narjess, Jean-Claude Cosset, and Anis Samet. "The Choice of ADRs." Paper presented at the Financial Management Association, Dallas, United States, October 2008, October, 2008.

Boubakri, Narjess, Jean-Claude, and Anis Samet. "The Choice of ADRs." Paper presented at the Midwest Finance Association, San Antonio, United States, February 2008 (best paper award), February, 2008.

Anis Samet. "Do Bondholders Price the Firm?s Transparency?" Paper presented at the Administrative Sciences Association of Canada (ASAC), Ottawa, Canada, June 2007, June, 2007.

Awards and Honors

2016-2018: Office of Research and Graduate Studies, American University of Sharjah: “Bank State Ownership, Financial Stability, and Financial Inclusion” ($24,600) (Principal investigator, co-researcher: Dr. Narjess Boubakri) June 1, 2016

2016 Summer Research grant: “Short-termism, liquidity, and the implied cost of capital” ($10,000) (Principal investigator, co-researcher: Dr. Mohsen Saad). June 1, 2016

2013-2015: Office of Research and Graduate Studies, American University of Sharjah: “Does Public Private Status Affect Bank Risk Taking? A Cross-Country Analysis” ($7,500) (Principal investigator, co-researcher: Dr. Narjess Boubakri) June 1, 2013