Dr. Zaher Zantout | American University of Sharjah
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College / Department

School of Business Administration
Department of Finance

Teaching areas

Corporate Finance, International Financial Management

Research areas

Corporate restructuring, corporate governance, financing of corporate research and development, financial innovation, capital market efficiency and dividend policy.

Education

PhD, Finance, Drexel University, United States, 1990
MBA, General Mba Program, American University of Beirut, Lebanon, 1984
BA, Business Administration, American University of Beirut, Lebanon, 1982

Professional experience

Professor, Finance, American University of Sharjah, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates, 2007 - Present

Contact

[email protected]
+971 6 515 2347

Dr. Zaher Zantout

Professor
PhD, Drexel University, United States

Zaher Zantout has taught at several universities. His research is published in leading finance journals such as the Journal of Finance, Financial Management, Journal of Business Finance and Accounting and hJournal of Financial Research. His work has been cited numerous times in research published in leading finance journals, and it has been profiled in Business Week and the CFA Digest. He has a background in the banking industry and has worked as a consultant in the areas of corporate finance and banking for several years.

Publications

Abdelaziz Chazi, Ali Mirzaei And Zaher Zantout. Are Islamic banks really resilient to crises: New evidence from the COVID-19 pandemic, International Journal Of Islamic And Middle Eastern Finance And Management
Abdelaziz Chazi, Asm Sohel Azad, Ashraf Khallaf And Zaher Zantout. Is the Finance Discipline in a Research Silo?, Accounting And Finance, December 2023
Zaher Zantout, Kimberly Gleason And Anand Systla. The diminishing scientific impact of new research in finance, Critical Finance Review
Abdelaziz Chazi, Ali Mirzaei And Zaher Zantout. Does the size of Islamic banking matter for industry growth: International Evidence, Applied Economics, 2020
Abdelaziz Chazi, Alexandra Theodossiou And Zaher Zantout. Corporate payout-form: Investors’ preference and catering theory, Managerial Finance, 2018
Abdelaziz Chazi, Ashraf Khallaf And Zaher Zantout. Corporate Governance and Bank Performance: Islamic versus Non-Islamic Banks in GCC Countries, The Journal Of Developing Areas, April (2nd Quarter/Spring) 2018
Abdelaziz Chazi, Ashraf Khallaf, Yi Liu And Zaher Zantout. Technology transactions, announcement effect, and reversal: Dissecting an anomaly, Quarterly Review Of Economics And Finance, 1 January (1st Quarter/Winter) 2014

Conference Presentations

Diminishing Impact of Finance Research, Finance Department Research Seminar, February 2020

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