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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

PhD, Finance, The University of Texas at San Antonio, United States

MS, Finance, Suffolk University, United States

MS, Money and Finance, HEC, Tunisia

Bachelor, Finance, HEC, Tunisia

Professional experience

Assistant Professor at AUS(2013 - Present)

Contact

[email protected]

+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

Ali Mirzaei, Iness Aguir, Capital inflows and bank stability around the financial crisis: The mitigating role of macro-prudential policies , Revising to Resubmit, Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions and Money, 2019

Iness Aguir, Lalatendu Misra, Ownership level choice and value creation in international joint ventures: The role of investor protection, Published, International Review of Economics and Finance, 49, pp. 515-535, 2017

Iness Aguir, John Wald, Sattar Mansi, Natasha Burns, Director Liability, Director Compensation, and Incentives, Published, Journal of Financial Intermediation, 4, 23, pp. 570–589, 2014

Conference Presentations

Wael Aguir, Director and Officer Liability Protection and Firm Value: Unintended Consequences, American Accounting Association Southwest Region , Houston, Texas, United States, 2019

Ali Mirzaei, Capital Inflows and Bank Stability around the Financial Crisis: The Mitigating Role of Macro-prudential Policies, Conference on Banks and The Real Economy, Dubai, United Arab Emirates, 2018

Wael Aguir, Director and Officer Liability Protection and Firm Value: The Role of Governance, American Accounting Association, Washington , DC, United States, 2018

Lalatendu Misra, Ownership Structure and Value Creation in International Joint Ventures, Eastern Finance Association, Baltimore, Maryland, United States, 2016

Iness Aguir, The Effect of Director Limiting Liability Provisions on Firm Value, Midwest Finance Association, Florida, United States, 2014

Iness Aguir, Director Liability, Director Compensation, and Incentives, European Finance Association, Frankfurt, Germany, 2010

Grants and sponsorships

Institutional Regimes and their Impact on Information: Evidence from Cross-Listed Emerging Growth Companies, 2020

Awards and Honors

, Best Student of the Year award, Suffolk University [2007]

, Highest Honors and Best Thesis Award, HEC [2005]

, Highest Honors and Best Thesis Award, HEC [2007]

, The Fulbright Scholarship [2005]

, University of Texas at San Antonio Fellowship [2007-2013]