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College / Department

School of Business Administration
Department of Finance

Teaching areas

Portfolio management, Investments, Corporate Finance

Research areas

Corporate Finance, Investments, International Finance, Mergers and Acquisitions

Education

Bachelor, 2002, Finance, HEC, Tunis, Tunisia
MS, 2005, Money and Finance, HEC, Tunis, Tunisia
MS, 2007, Finance, Suffolk University, Boston, United States
PhD, 2013, Finance, The University of Texas at San Antonio, Texas, United States

Professional experience

Assistant Professor, American University of Sharjah, UAE, 2013-Current

Contact

iaguir@aus.edu
+971 6 515 4622

Dr. Iness Aguir

Assistant Professor
PhD, University of Texas at San Antonio, USA

Iness Aguir's dissertation was in the area of empirical corporate finance, corporate governance and international finance. Her teaching and research areas are corporate finance, portfolio management and international finance. Dr. Aguir has presented her research in prestigious international conferences such as the European Finance Association and the Financial Management Association meetings. Her work has been published in the Journal of Financial Intermediation, one of the leading journals in finance.

Publications

Aguir, Iness; Burns, Natasha; Mansi Sattar; Wald, John.. "Director Liability, Director Compensation, and Incentives." Journal of Financial Intermediation 23, no. 4 (October, 2014): 570–589.

Awards and Honors

University of Texas at San Antonio Fellowship [2007-2013]
Best Student of the Year award, Suffolk University [2007]
Highest Honors and Best Thesis Award, HEC [2007]
The Fulbright Scholarship [2005]
Highest Honors and Best Thesis Award, HEC [2005]

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